longest surgery?

15 hour Fem-Pop..I was there for 12 hours of the case.

OMG, we get cranky if our fem-pops last 3 or 4 hours....

One time I took pity on a surgeon who'd been scrubbed over ten hours and still had a long way to go. I took him in the substerile and held a urinal for him.

This was an old lady and the doctor was bound and determined that she wasn't going to lose her leg. At one point, we pulled down all the drapes, reprepped, and went to the other leg. I lost count of how many times we used that doppler to find a pulse. Finally, we got one(not the greatest) and called it a day. But sadly, she ended up losing the leg later. Which was horrible-all that work, and the poor thing ended up an amputee.

Ahhhh, the already dead fem-pop. We had something like that last week, a fem thrombectomy...2 hours later a fasciotomy, then the surgeon says, I guess we should have done that first. Dead muscle....

PS we always prep both legs for fem-pops, fem-thrombectomies, etc for just in case.....