Today I saved Musical Rounds

So, it was my fault that Musical Rounds were in jeopardy in the first place. Let me explain. Our attending this week on the CV surgery side is one of my favorite attendings, but also, as one of our nurse practitioners called her "a little high-maintenance." Not in a bad way once you know to watch for it. Just in a way that she likes things very much her way. Like don't replace potassium IV. And never call her with a blood gas. And every post-op patient must have a drawing of their anatomically (for them) correct heart at their bedside.

Well, in the mess of having a large service and three surgeries on Tuesday, I may have run out of time to do the drawings and then completely abandoned my colleagues by rounding on the medicine side yesterday. When I apologized this morning, they said, "Yeah, we heard about it all day." In other words, Big. Trouble.

Additionally, we had been looking forward to Musical Rounds all week, where each patient gets a theme song played on rounds.

Unbeknownst to me, our attending was planning on canning Musical Rounds since we had failed epically at getting the drawings up on Tuesday. But when I was reminded about them this morning, I cranked out 4 surgically-corrected-congenitally-abnormal heart drawings in about 6 minutes (and then had to fix one cause I didn't realize he also had a right-sided arch). We ran off to tape them to the beds right as our attending walked in from a meeting, ready to round.

I announced our triumphant return to grace and was rewarded with "You just saved Musical Rounds." Score!

I wish we had video-taped the craziness that ensued. First patient--7 year old who has become a favorite of all of ours, sitting wide awake on his ventilator playing with shaving cream--getting extubated. His fist pumps earned him "Eye of the Tiger" (cue dancing and more fist pumps and high fives). Best. Extubation. Ever.

Rounds also featured Michael Jackson, the Beatles, and a rousing sing-along of "Leavin' on a Jet Plane" which I think frightened the floor team who had come down to round on transfers. We did have to pause "White and Nerdy" while some potential big-time financial donors who were touring the PICU walked by.

At some point, I think we also treated some kids who were sick.