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>> So my name is Ryan Jackson, and I'm a
pediatric critical care doctor at the University

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of Colorado and Children's Hospital of Colorado.

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And so my days are split.

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Some days, I'm working as a clinical
doctor in the ICU at the hospital.

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Other days, I'm doing more education and
research on the academic side at the University.

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So in our hospital, we have a 32-bed ICU,
and we have several doctors at the hospital

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at any time covering all those patients.

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So my role in the morning is to go in and
actually round on all those patients and come

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up with a plan for the day,
what we're going to do to try

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and get those kids healthy
and able to leave the ICU.

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And then, the afternoon is really spent dealing
with new admissions, talking to families

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and patients about what we're doing
that day, how things are going,

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what steps we're making,
what needs to be changed.

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I also work some overnights where I do similar
things, kind of walking around putting out fires

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and helping new patients to get accustomed to
the unit and get started on a plan to heal them.

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Ideally, we try to have a structure,
and most days, it works out pretty well.

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So I get to the hospital about 7:00 in the
morning, spend an hour, hour and a half,

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kind of going through what happened overnight
with the people who were on as well as going

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through all the computer, lab work,
and data that was collected overnight.

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From about 8:30 until 11:00, we're actually
rounding in the unit, so walking from bedside

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to bedside, talking to the family members,
the nurses, the other people on my team

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that I'm supervising, so residents and students.

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And that part of the day is
usually pretty structured.

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The afternoon is much less
structured and has a lot more running.

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One of the good and bad things about being an
ICU doctor is that you also go to any bad thing

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that is happening in the hospital, so if
a patient who is not in the ICU gets sick,

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or a patient who is in the ICU gets
sick, you're the one who is running

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to their bedside to try and resuscitate them.

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So that can happen anytime day or night

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and can really throw a wrench
into how the day is working.