Dressed for the OR

I don't do OR; in reality, I can't even watch TV when they make those surgical incisions. Makes me queasy. Other than my own few necessary surgeries, that's it. I mean, I gag when I have to take out PICC line sutures to dc the PICC! I do watch the TV medical shows (as we all do) to catch the discrepancies.

Saw something the other day on Monsters Inside Me, The show talks about people who experience parasitic, viral, bacterial, etc infections. This pt went to surgery to explore swollen lymph nodes. Something caught my attention. The surgeon & nurse were at the gurney-side (table-side, stretcher-side; what do they call the OR bed?) doing their surgery on the draped pt with their instruments holding bloody sponges.

****** Here's the thing - they had bare arms. They were gloved and had short sleeves on, but their forearms from wrist to mid-upper arm were exposed. All I could think of was a fuzzy forearm hair specimen or skin cells falling off onto the surgical field and/or into the incision.

This was just a TV faux-pas, yes? At the table-side, the OR team would be wearing long sleeves, yes?