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

Specialties Ob/Gyn

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What do they do in your hospital?

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

Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

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.

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

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.

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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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