• with babies w risk factors for
intracranial hemorrhage you wanna get head ultrasound around 3-4 days cuz that’s when most of the bleeds happen and then again at ~30 days when there’s a risk of leukomalacia • some people use ultrasound as a “divining rod” to see if baby has pneumonia vs RDS… often good clinicians with good clinical judgment who already ruled out and use US to post-hoc confirm their reasoning - therefore US not actually that helpful, just seems it • duodenoduodenostomy just a crazy word… doubled in on itself a la Homer • karyotype can detect macro deletions (not micro) and aneuploidy - take cells, let them replicate, freeze in metaphase, stain, look @ • sometimes placenta can tolerate an aneuploidy that the fetus can’t → abortion (mosaicism) • ? diGeorge ? I knew it tenuously for step 1 but it’s gone… something about thymus? • ? compound heterozygote ? • “hey we discovered new genes” - they keep your genome indefinitely when you get genetic testing done • (white) mom wants to “research” the preemie formula nutritionist is recommending … textbook wws • getting randomly pissed at the security guard with the big glasses wearing a Michael Kors mask with a big ass MK on one side • teratoma baby has a starmie pokemon card (which looks fake but that’s beside the point, or maybe it’s a metaphor or microcosm or smth) clipped to his name card • I’m sorry bro but can we let him die?? Like truly this is inhumane… loooking at his face it’s like instantly recognizably jaundiced as fuck like his body is trying to kill him in a few ways why don’t we just let him go or at least try taking out the elephant in the room first? it’s our fault it’s all our fault can’t blame the parents but if I were them I’d be inclined to get that thing removed NOW or just let him fucking die like he’s clearly trying to