Laparoscopies

I spent most of this afternoon watching laparoscopies. There wasn't much to do, so naturally my mind wandered towards "things that would make laparoscopies more fun". I came up with these:

a) Popcorn! A small crowd of people watching a screen in a darkened room without popcorn and slushies just seems wrong. At the very least, someone should wander round with a tray of ice cream.

b) Instagram filters - photos of abdominal organs would look much better in Brannan, with a bit of tilt-shift to blur the edges. And hashtags. All of the hashtags.

c) Video-game style sound effects and achievements - surely it'd be better to have an 8-bit "bloop" for every adhesion you divided, "Surgeon 2 has entered the game", and a final boss to beat before you can close.

Any more suggestions?

A couple of stolen comics

I'm on anaesthetics at the moment, and the other day I had the idea to draw "Mighty Morphine Power Rangers"...but after a quick Google, I realised the joke has been done before. So here's what Stuart Day (http://stuartday.tumblr.com) drew: 

I'm doing this audit which involves asking patients to score their pain 0-10 - don't get me started on how useless it is - and it always reminds me of a comic by Allie Brosh: A Better Pain Scale. Her comic Adventures in Depression is definitely worth a read as well.

Inappropriate songs I've heard in hospital, part 1

"Every Breath You Take" - in ITU, during a discussion on turning off ventilatory support
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - during Caesarean
"Sexy and I Know It" - Just not okay. EVER.

Toxicology

Follow your dreams...no wait, don't.

Not a lot of people know this.

Aspiration

See also: aspirational pneumonia, foreign body aspiration...