WEEK 2 KIJABE HOSPITAL
Operating Theater Staff My second week I definitely felt more comfortable with how the system worked at Kijabe and in the operating theater. The anesthesia team and surgical techs were a huge help. They knew their equipment well and were amazing at improvising when needed. Although the instruments were not what I am used to I honestly don't think it affected the surgical results at all. I spent my time in the operating room each day. We performed a bilateral cleft lip, several sinus surgeries, cleft palate repairs, tracheostomy and even a fat graft to the left cheek. Several of the cases I will always remember. Alex was a 17 year old boy who presented with a large sphenoid sinus mass. the sphenoid sinus is in the back near the skull base. The mass had eroded all the walls of the sinus and he had become blind in 2019. He had debilitating headaches in addition. The plan was to biopsy the mass. His brother of 23 was caring for him and was informed that the surgery would not