jupo

Things like this remind me how many standards my OR doesn't follow, and which I've allowed myself to sink below just because everyone else does too. In our OR, it's an everyday occurance. Open and set up... the circulator goes to check in the patient... the scrub takes a last minute bathroom break... noone in the room for 5 minutes. Then there's flipping rooms with a spare team. The extra team sets up the room, and they wait around at the charge desk until the surgeon is out of the first case and ready to come back for theirs. And let's not forget our DBS cases, where we usually finish getting set up about an hour before the patient actually comes back, thanks to delays over in radiology. Our teams in these rooms typically tape the doors, leave the floor, and go eat breakfast in the cafeteria. Now, we do have staff that are all very aware that they can't go walking in open rooms without masks and such. But worse than that, we do have this nasty problem with flies and mosquitoes...