Cambodia's sure full of surprises. And creepy crawlies. So far in and around the house, there have been sightings of: 2 scorpions, innumerable geckos and ants, 1 spider, and a large lizard who's taken up residence in one of my colleague's rooms. All in the span of 2 days. But the real surprise was the rather unexpected clinical experience us three meddies received the other night. It was a good thing we ended the year with brain and behaviour topics, because we had to manage a 45 minute generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizure with clonus down the entire left side. Our supervisor started seizing in the car and we put the whole sequence into action: stabilized airway and breathing and circulation, assessed GCS, assessed pupillary reflexes, monitored vitals, wished for iv abilities to put in saline and
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