Getting used to gore?

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Anyone have tips for getting used to gorey conditions ?

laproscopic doesnt bother me, but some of these heavy duty surgeries can be a bit much. I havent been in a hardcore hip replacement or any of those ortho surgeries where bones are getting sawed and crushed, so im just trying to prepare myself as best as I can.

Learning all the tools and procedures I feel like im pretty good at, (im a new grad OR hire) but im a little nervous when things get really messy. I have no idea why since I have no issues with the sight of blood at all. And at my previous job, I regularly got patients blood on me.

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I would go online and see if you can find more information about some of the common surgeries that you will see. If you know more information about whats going on, it seems less like gore. Also, frequently, you can see some clips of the actual procedure.

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Look on Youtube for the gory ones. That should do it.

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Specializes in Surgery.

I've never seen a gory surgery ;). Some folks have issues with it, it never bothered me but hopefully you will overcome it.

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Been doing ortho cases for years total joint replacements, traumatic open fractures never bothered me but did a scalp procedure under local with IVS and don't know why but made my skin crawl the whole case.

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Specializes in OR-ortho, neuro, trauma.

Love my ortho cases! Eyeballs gross me out but luckily we don't do them often. Can you double up with someone to get experience in those cases? It seems scary to a lot of people but once you are in there you'll be fine!

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Love my ortho cases! Eyeballs gross me out but luckily we don't do them often. Can you double up with someone to get experience in those cases? It seems scary to a lot of people but once you are in there you'll be fine!

What kinda eyeball cases are you talking about ?

catarcts/strabithmus corrections ? Or are you talking like orbital cancer ?

I actually adjusted quite well pretty fast. Its not that bad, although i still havent had to see any like MAJOR opens at this point (I dont work in a trauma center, so I dont know how common MAJOR things are). Hernias, burr holes not a huge deal that ive seen so far

I think right now my biggest fear is just seeing a weighted specuulum used for the first time.

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