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Queasy Feeling - April 2017 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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down. Finish that last donut off and throw the box away. • Incomplete consent forms. Don't you just love it when sur- geons add additional stuff to the consent and you don't find out about it until you go to talk to the patient and confirm the con- sent? The old codger knows full well that stuff is not going to be pulled. It wasn't on the schedule. Dr. Massengill's going to be a hemorrhoid about it because he doesn't have what he needs for what he added on. Duh? He could have prevented it by using 1 of the 2 phones he carries to call us. We could have gotten some assistance to pull those things and we could still start on time. Maybe. • Tangled tubing. How does IV and oxygen tubing get hooked around things like the stretcher's brake pedal, the railing, the OR bed, my pocket and my badge? It's like snakes in an OR. Soon as you notice it, you jerk the stretcher to a halt, pulling the tubing on the nasal cannula so taut that you nearly give the patient an unscheduled septoplasty. • Sinister scrub techs. The surgeon will yell at and blame the circulator before the beloved scrub. Scrub techs have all the power in the OR. They can make or break the team. A good scrub will have what she needs opened or placed in an area to be opened when needed. A not-so-good scrub? She won't even have her own gown and gloves open before she scrubs. She'll run a circulator all over Hell's half acre for something the sur- geon didn't ask for or need. If she does so out of malice and not because she's a few sandwiches short of a picnic, I'll call her out on it and wait for her after work in the parking deck. A P R I L 2 0 1 7 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 1 5 3

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