Is it SAFE to be the scrub AND assistant to the surgeon during c-sections?

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What do they do in your hospital?

If you do both, how/where did you learn to assist?

SmilingBluEyes

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis. Has 26 years experience.

unless there is an emergency, the scrub and first assist are two different people........in dire cases, the scrub can and does assist. As L and D RN's, we do not scrub or assist in csections ----with the exception of ONE RN only who is trained and has done this for years. The rest of us simply circulate.

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

One first assistant, one second assistant. There is a third assistant when twins or triplets are expected.

lapappey

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Ideal? No. Safe? Maybe. But in these situations, you do what you have to ...

jwk

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Has 32 years experience.
One first assistant, one second assistant. There is a third assistant when twins or triplets are expected.

Just curious why you would ever need a 2nd or 3rd assistant (unless it's a teaching hospital). Twins, triplets, quads, it's still a single uterus.

jwk

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Has 32 years experience.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
Just curious why you would ever need a 2nd or 3rd assistant (unless it's a teaching hospital). Twins, triplets, quads, it's still a single uterus.

It is a teaching hospital.

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