what do cardiac surgeons do as a daily routine?also...?

Question

what is weekly leisure time and annual vacation for a heat suregeon? well if u can answer these 3 questions well by the 24th of may i'll make u best answer...10 points!!

Answer 1

In Australia, my experience of Cardiac Surgery was:

7am start ward round - see post op patients on the ward - last checks of any pre-op patients needing sorting

8am knife cuts skin

12pm or thereabouts break for lunch

depending on the day:

theatre day
after lunch - return to theatre - more cutting

theatre days usually finish early depending on the list ... maybe as early as 3pm on a good day ... as late as 4:30pm on a bad day.

Clinic days:
after lunch - go to clinic
either pre-op clinics (preadmissions) or post-op clinics some weeks after their procedures

Again - finish time depends on the lists - how many patients, how many doctors...

After hours: depends on the oncall roster.

Adelaide is a small place, so the registrars are on call and consultants can usually sleep easy. Eastern states are bigger and get more after hours stuff. Consultants get called in for bad traumas when chests need to be opened.

Weekends again depends on the oncall roster. FMC is a small place with 3 Cardiac Surgery consultants at present. You get on call 1 weekend in 3.

Annual leave - 5 wks per year, can be accrued ... plus study leave, conference leave, sick leave and eventually long service leave.

This is just public hospital work. Some Cardiothoracic surgeons do private hospital work as well. They might work part time in public and then use half the week to do almost exactly the same thing in Private. Private hospital ICU registrar would cover overnights.

It's all good!

Just work on the spelling and grammar a little if you want to get the marks.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The cardiac surgeons that I worked with were pediatric. They usually started their days very early and would do rounds in the ICU and then move to the floor (step-down unit) to round on their patients. Of course surgeries were scheduled (sometimes morning sometimes afternoon). I know that sometimes our surgeons would take a few weeks in the summer for vacation. These men and women who make it to the prestigious level of cardio-thoracic surgeon have spent many years studying to be surgeons and then usually extra fellowships to learn from and perfect their skills in the intricasees of "fixing" heart defects and problems. They have dedicated their life to this profession and the time that they do take off is well-deserved.