Do scrub people at your O.R. use an emesis basin to pass sharps?

[linda2097]

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]

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]

yes we do, for us it's a requirment.

[GadgetRN71, ASN, RN]

I tried this once and all the docs looked at me like I had 3 heads.....

[Scrubby]

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]

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