random question.. how do you deal with the cold?

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Hey everyone,

I am thinking about going into a CRNA program. I can't help but remember when I did my rotation in the OR, it was freezing!! I live in Arizona so I'm use to the hot weather. I think if I was a CRNA I would have a cold 10 months out of a year. How were you able to get over the OR temperature?

Jels

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After graduating nursing school, I worked as a nurse circulator in the OR. I used to wear the thin long johns under my scrubs which look like cotton shirts..Underamor also has apparel that you can wear under scrubs.

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The good thing is that you can always dress for cold temps...just dress in layers...If it's hot (like it is in my ICU...always about 75-78 degrees) there's not much you can do...so hot natured people (like me) just have to suffer. I sweat like I'm in a sauna, every day that I work.

I have observed a few surgeries done by burn docs, and they keep the temp of the Burn OR suites at about 90 degrees (because burn victims cannot regulate their temp, without their skin)...so, you could consider doing anesthesia for surgeries on burn patients. Also, I know that you were just kidding, but you can't catch a cold from being subjected to cold temperatures...colds are caused by bacteria or viruses. :specs:

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Specializes in CCRN, ATCN, ABLS.

"Also, I know that you were just kidding, but you can't catch a cold from being subjected to cold temperatures...colds are caused by bacteria or viruses. :specs:"

Thanks for that reply. This is not the meat of the thread, but there are so many zombies out there who still think that you can get sick from being cold (of course you can get hypothermia...lol), I had a professor who had a PhD in Epidemiology and she saw me dressed in a short sleeve t-shirt with temps in the '50's and told me that I should dress better or else I would get sick. When I laughed and told her what I thought she agreed with me but said she could not get away from her mothers' ingrained philosophy

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Don't through out the wives tales so fast.

A 2005 study showed people were more susceptible to cold symptoms when their feet were cold. The thinking is that in the cold, peripheral circulation clamps down including to the nose making it harder for the nasal passages to fend off the ubiquitous cold virus. Several aspects of the immune system are under study regarding their function in the cold. http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/6/608

What causes a staph infection ... is it the wound or the bug?

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