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Basics of Blocks - April 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS 1 3 0 O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | A P R I L 2 0 1 4 • Where do all the scrubs go? The black hole that claims the occasion- al missing sock must also have quite the collection of scrubs, because hospital laundries and linen service companies never seem to send enough to outfit the entire staff for the day. You'd better get to the locker room early if you want to be dressed for the OR. Given the holes and torn pockets you sometimes find in them, I'm thankful they're covered by gowns most of the time. • How protective is that barrier? Standard precautions dictate the wearing of personal protective equipment to shield employees against patients' contaminants, and vice versa. In addition to donning gloves and a mask, we drape a yellow, filmy, gauzy gown over our scrubs. I often wonder what's in that miracle gauze. If I can see right through it, how protected am I? Also, how useful is it in the OR if we're also wearing it to transport patients, in the corridor outside, in sub-sterile, and everywhere else? • Why hasn't this been invented? HD has made the trip from living rooms to the OR. Why can't the universal remote? Yes, a remote control for everything: OR table, towers, C-arm, fluid waste collector, cautery, every- thing turned on, off, up or down at the touch of a button from across the room. Maybe it could even let us move and steer equipment, like toys! • Are cords tangling themselves on purpose? The jungle of cords that power surgical technologies are a roadblock and a hazard. Nothing in the OR, not equip- ment nor a circulator in a hurry, can clear them in a single bound. In the circulator's case, hopefully no one's watching when the floor breaks her fall. But while she's down there, she should take a moment to marvel at how quickly the cables she separated and Director Ambulatory Surgical Center A multi-specialty ASC in Sheridan, Wyoming Established 2005 Send resume & salary history to: sheridansurgery2014@gmail.com Competitive pay, benefits & productivity incentives A historic Western town at the base of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, halfway between Yellowstone Park & Mt. Rushmore - Four seasons, great schools & outdoor opportunities OSE_1404_part3_Layout 1 4/4/14 2:43 PM Page 130

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