We continue to plug away. Balancing our mission of winding down the surgical practice, yet taking care of the present Orthopaedic needs which still need expertise which can be uniquely handled at Double Harvest. We had another 12 hour OR day today, which I know pales in comparison to what the earlier groups had to [...]
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Doing The Best We Can
March 23, 2010 – 1:03 pm
Team 8
Monday was a very busy and difficult day with a very busy clinic and surgery schedule. At 8 am the benches and waiting areas were overflowing with patients waiting to be seen. Surgically we completed skin grafts on a young child and did 5 other cases mainly involving infected hardware.
We admitted 2 more infected hardware patients for [...]
Haiti kids have great smiles
March 22, 2010 – 10:10 am
Saturday and Sunday were both busy days for us. We have a full census with 3 patients overflowed into the garage. I’m very proud of everyones efforts, and we do believe that we are making a difference. Some of the problems have been quite difficult to manage, however, with several infected nonunions and a few [...]
A good first day for Team 8
March 19, 2010 – 10:50 am
Team 8 is at Double Harvest, arriving uneventfully. Lots of confusion at the airport, with people shouting and grabbing our luggage. We made it up to Double Harvest in the back of a pickup truck since the minivan couldn’t make it through the mud.
We were greeted by 3 awesome nurses who have been invaluable in [...]
Seven Simple Words
March 17, 2010 – 11:17 am
Hello,
We continue to be very busy at Double Harvest. We were surprised by a group from Ohio showing up rather unexpectedly today. They are going into Port-au-Prince tomorrow and plan on leaving Thursday.
Overall cases keep coming in. There are a few new fractures and many interesting cases as well as a lot of follow ups. We are seeing several cases of infections as [...]
Getting Reorganzied
March 15, 2010 – 12:28 pm
Hello all,
To sum it up, today has been a learning day. First of all we weren’t quite sure if we were on daylights savings time or not. A few of us were ready to go round at 6am….after a quick google search we realized we could have slept another hour!
We all realize how hard it’s [...]
Return to Haiti Team 7 Arrives Safely
March 13, 2010 – 7:50 am
We have all arrived safe and sound. Spending the first night in the vocational building with plans to move up to the clinic tomorrow. Did get to make rounds with the Manhattan (Kansas) group, but mostly OB-Gyn and ENT. Three of us will be going to the University Hospital tomorrow to round up patients and to [...]
Returning home from an impactful experience
March 3, 2010 – 9:23 pm
Team 6B is home.
Started the day by waking up to a failed generator. “Pancake Steve” flipped breakfast for all. We made rounds with Diane Cable. Had to take Jolanda (AKA) back after her wound opened up, it’s probably colonized (infected). We used our first real VAC. Valeri is still under weather so adminstration canceled the [...]
Team 6B’s last night in Haiti
March 2, 2010 – 10:02 pm
Ki jan ou rele? (What is your name?)
Our last night in Croix de Bouquets.
Today we fixed our first acute fracture, a 13-year-old who fractured his femur playing soccer. First case we were able to use our brand new large fragment set of screws (which was complete!!) that had been hand delivered by Tony, a friend [...]
Taking over the reigns
February 27, 2010 – 7:11 pm
Team 6 will hopefully be home safe tonight. We are all extremely indebted to each of the Team 6 members for making the transition so successful. We humbly took over the reins of a well-oiled machine and will do all we can to make you all proud. This is an amazing place. The highs and [...]
