by Aiman | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
As I continue my journey to understanding pediatric neurology, there is one case I would like to highlight. This week, I met a 13 year old boy whose friends were joking around and pushed him down on the floor and stomped on him. This caused severe spinal injury and...
by JJ Tellez | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Buenas tardes! Hope everyone is doing well. Last week was my seventh week working at MicroVention and it went pretty smoothly. I was mostly helping out in the clean room and preparing for a visit from the BOBBY manufacturing team in Aliso Viejo, CA. The team arrived...
by Summan Rahman | Jul 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Interestingly, I saw the doctor prescribe coffee and fluids to stay hydrated for a patient with a post spinal tap headache. Caffeine actually increases cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production, helping replenish the CSF lost during the spinal tap ☕️ [1]. Prion diseases...
by Aiman | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hi friends! Costa Rica is slowly but surely coming to an end. I have really been enjoying the culture of the Ticos (Costa Rican people). Everyone is so kind, patient and understanding despite the language barriers. I have had fun exploring La Fortuna as well and we...
by Jade Lee | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Pádel week 🎾 I was pretty productive and accomplished a lot at the internship this week. I organized the suture threads and recorded their specifications and quantities in a table, drafted a technical method document, marked test samples, revised four technical...
by Korie | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
This week some of the field engineers had training on GE incubators so I joined them every morning. Although the training was online and the instructor spoke Spanish, the manuals and videos were in English so I was still able to learn a lot. The training included...
