{"id":233,"date":"2007-06-25T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=233"},"modified":"2007-06-25T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T18:32:57","slug":"my-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/06\/25\/my-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"My Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/2007.06.25.a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-807\" title=\"2007.06.25.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/2007.06.25.a1-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/2007.06.25.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-778\" title=\"2007.06.25.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/2007.06.25.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>It was the last week of my intensive care rotation, and I&#8217;ve come to realize that most ICU patients just tend to deteriorate slowly over time. They start with a little hypertension and heart failure, then get some community-acquired pneumonia, goes into respiratory failure, gets mechanically ventilated, gets ventilator-associated pneumonia, becomes septic, goes into shock, then develop acute renal failure (or as we would write, a pt w\/ HTN, CHF p\/w CAP + resp failure, now on AC, c\/b VAP, SIRS, and ARF). In ways, my aging desktop has become like my very own ICU patient. First, my data was corrupted, so I thought there were just some bad sectors. But soon, my motherboard started misbehaving, then my power supply was blown. I ultimately had to order new parts, including a new processor, motherboard, memory, video card, case, and power supply. Last week, it felt like a multi-transplant surgery as I reconnected the vital components. Finally, with a new Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 4600+ CPU, XFX nForce 590 SLI mobo, 2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000 DDR2 RAM, PNY GeForce 7900GS PCI-E video, and a pair of WD 250GB SATA HDs in RAID 0, powered by a CoolMax 500W PSU, and encased in a jet black Antec tower, my computer is about to be brought back to life. Say hello to Vader. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the last week of my intensive care rotation, and I&#8217;ve come to realize that most ICU patients just tend to deteriorate slowly over time. They start with a little hypertension and heart failure, then get some community-acquired pneumonia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/06\/25\/my-patient\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}