Saturday, February 12, 2011

Last day of surgery


Well today is our last day. It's kind of bittersweet. We've helped so many people this week but we know there are more that need our help. We have all been working with the local staff helping them learn how to do Cardiac surgery. I have been very fortunate to have a wonderful Perfusion assistant this week, Theoneste. He is so eager to learn Perfusion and is grasping the concepts wonderfully! So well in fact that he has now pumped his first cases! (under our close supervision and support!) We went on bypass and then let Theo take over until the cross clamp came off and then we took back over. He is going to India in May to learn Perfusion and he is going to be far ahead of his other classmates. Rwanda is going to have an excellent Perfusionist in two years! Too bad that Perfusionist doesn't translate to Kinyarwandan! But I did learn how to say what I do "Njyewe Samantha nkoresha imashini y'umutima n'ibihaha."
One more case to go then time to pack up the OR.

Samantha

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