important consideration. "If I'm
tearing a gown off 40 times in a
day, I don't want to have to tug
hard 40 times," he says. His trick:
Don't tie the gowns so tightly that
you can't easily tear it off at the
end of the case.
One final piece of advice from
Dr. Newsom: Have good backup
gowns. "There's nothing worse
than changing out of your great gown into an uncomfort-
able backup gown that isn't in your standard surgical pack."
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