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 [...]
Tag Archives: Orthopaedic care
Returning home from an impactful experience
March 3, 2010 – 9:23 pm
Helping a well-oiled machine – Dr. Malvitz
March 1, 2010 – 11:58 pm
Kōman ou ye!!!
(How are you?)
Today was another amazing day. An aftershock was felt today for about 5 seconds and every Haitian screamed and ran out of the clinic. We were able to transfer our spine patient via a German helicopter to Milot. (She has an unstable T11/12 fracture dislocation injured in the earthquake who walked [...]
Team 6 gets started in Haiti – Dr. Burgess
February 22, 2010 – 12:26 pm
Team 6 has arrived safely at Double Harvest. We had a great flight in, thanks to Steelcase, we spoke briefly to the departing Team 5, then headed to DH. The atmosphere is quite surreal – to drive through town, see crumbled buildings and tent cities then arrive at the beautiful mission. The teams before us [...]
A new partnership – Dr. Bohay
February 17, 2010 – 8:41 am
Awakened again by the sounds of singing through the valley. Very serene and much better than wakening to an alarm.
Rounds were made, dressings changed and we were off to the operating room where we were able to reduce a 5 week old open femur fracture and apply an external fixator. Earlier in the morning we [...]
A “thank you” to the team – Dr. Matelic
February 16, 2010 – 1:54 pm
Did you know “super” means the same in English and Creole? No better word could describe our team here and the work that they are doing. Dr. Josh and Kelly Suter RN have been running the triage clinic like veterans from day one. They have worked constantly, and have delivered a few babies and saved [...]
Simple Joys from a Complicated Situation
February 15, 2010 – 9:30 am
Sunday 2/14/10
As the sun rose this morning there was one baby being delivered and another on the way. We are blessed to have Josh and Kelly, our emergency room staff, who swept down and delivered the baby smoothly. We spent the day Saturday in Port-Au-Prince making some visits to the hospitals. Bob, Sarah, Larinda and [...]
