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Contaminated back table

I was just wondering I am a new circulator and I am learning constantly and from a lot of people ( good practices and bad ones) j was curious what to do if your back table becomes contaminated, let's say by opening something that sligtly touches a finger and drops on your field during the middle of a case going and cound done and everything

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    If it's contaminated then it has to taken down, obviously. Now, I work in a specialty where we don't have to count instruments, so we would simply try to replace the contaminated instruments after I pulled the table down. If it's a case where you count instruments then when the moment was right, the tech and I would count what got contaminated and make a notation that these were off the field.

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    That happened to me one day, one of the helpful, eager, med students opened her glove and fortunately landed in the far corner. We just opened a tegaderm and I placed it on top and I drew a circle for everyone to see. Lucky for us that it was on the corner cuz we were in the middle of a bowel resection. Hope that helps. :)

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    Thank you all

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    I just started in the OR and contaminated a corner of a back table surface. It was just covered with a sterile towel the procedure continued.

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    OK, the other day I was opening a case and I contaminated the suture I threw on the table. I tore it down and started over. If it's the middle of the case and something gets contaminated, it just depends on what happened whether you can cover something with a towel, etc...

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