Specialties Operating Room
Published Feb 5, 2008
linda2097
375 Posts
Instead of handing sharps such as scalpels and suture to the surgeon, do scrub people at your O.R. use an emesis basin to pass sharps?
rph3664
1,714 Posts
A bit OT: My late grandmother had one of those in her bathroom - full of bobby pins and hair curlers.
Got a "weird" smiley?
I don't think she had any idea what hospitals really use those for.
spiritNursehealer
3 Posts
yes we do, for us it's a requirment.
GadgetRN71, ASN, RN
1,840 Posts
I tried this once and all the docs looked at me like I had 3 heads.....
Scrubby
1,313 Posts
Yes it is the policy at my work (as well as ACORN standards) to hand scalpels in a kidney dish. We don't usually do this for sutures though.
mcmike55
369 Posts
Sharps, such as a knife, syringe/needle are passed by using a ScrubSafe at our hospital.
It's a small yellow plastic "V" shaped tray made by DeRoyal.
It really cut down on the number of sticks in our OR.
Some scrubs will occasionally use a metal kidney basin to pass sharps, but primarily we use the ScrubSafe.
I like it because it's yellow, easy to see, and it's nice and hard. Easy to hold, and I never worry about it bouncing off, dulling the blade or ripping through.
For a while, when we first started using them, when the docs got ahold of 'em, they would "fall off the field", sometimes fall 8-10 feet "off the field", sometimes against the wall.
Anyway, we kept up, management supported us, we presented our point of view, and they now are on board!!
Mike