Dude the anesthesiologist was in charge of music selection when I was in a surgery I had to be awake for a few years back and this man really played "Don't Fear the Reaper" 😂😂
Had to cancel a patient that ate a chicken sandwich right before his OR. Was told "nothing to eat before you get to the hospital" so once he got there...
Vague directions. My brother would be eating in the car ride there. It's most helpful to say "No food X hours before your surgery." It's like the time I got blood drawn for labs and was told to fast. Because they refused to answer concretely "How long should I fast?" I did a 24 hour fast just to be sure. And apparently that messed up some of my results.
@@janinawaz4596 Yup. A few years ago, I was having a procedure under twilight sedation. They told me no food (not NPO). I forget why, but I had a couple of sips of liquid (I have Sjögren’s Syndrome, which causes pretty wicked dry mouth, so maybe that). It was 4am, so I couldn’t get a good answer from anyone, so I took the drink. It was probably no more than 4 ounces (118 ml). My procedure was supposed to be at 8am. I’d had no food and only 4 ounces of liquid since 9pm the night before. They shuffled the schedule around and made me wait until noon. I was thankful they could still fit me in, but also annoyed that my instructions didn’t say NPO. I’ve had enough surgeries to understand NPO, but in my head, “no food” wasn’t the same as “NPO.” Oh well. Lesson learned!
Back when I was a student I was scrubbed in and realized I had just touched my mask and glasses. I immediately called myself out and stepped away from the table. Scrub tech was amazed and appreciative. And on point for a surgical rotation; that was the only compliment I got…that I identified that I screwed something up before the surgeon. Lol.
@@Eeeeeeeeej everything blue in a surgical setting is sterile. Anything introduced to it has to be sterile. If anything touches it that isn’t known to be sterile everything has to be redone.
@sofiakangas8796 but the scrub tech starts to react before the med student has even taken the gloves out of the bag. That threw me off. Thanks for the clarification.
To explain. 1. Your nails may be harboring germs that can make you sick (worse with long or fake nails) 2. Potentially "fatal" germs can lurk under hospital workers' nails. (Patient immune system is weaker during and after surgery) Studies have found 32 different bacteria and *28 different fungi* underneath fingernails. 3. When you open gloves you need to pull them out by the inner lining *only* for good infection control. 4. The moment the student touched the purple nitrile [most sterile glove] they became contaminated by the students [regardless of scrubbing] fingers. 5. The student laid the [now] contaminated gloves on the Blue, thus contaminating the Blue. Now staff will have to start over with infection control procedures impacting time constraints on *everything*. These things are taken very seriously in order to keep all patients alive and well. Hospital staff intend to save lives and not forsake them.
@@leeknow8299Because they aren't a surgeon, their job is to put you under anesthesia and make sure that you stay asleep throughout the procedure and then take you off and a seizure in time for you to wake up. They don't really have to do anything during the surgery or before the surgery and tell it's time for them to put the person under anesthesia
As a Certified Surgical Technologist (aka "scrub tech") for 40+ years, this brought back so many memories. I can laugh now, but dang it was hard to tear down and re-setup everything immediately and then get blamed for the delay. But, I did love those 3rd year med students and teaching them how to scrub and stay sterile, especially when they came back as surgeons, as we always had good old stories to hold over their heads! Rarely had to use that ammo, though as one look from me said everything and then they behaved. Ah, it was an awesome life's work! Thanks for bringing these memories back!
I feel your pain of tearing down entire set-up and re-starting.. especially, when we're down on sterile supplies 😅 (Was OR Nurse for 25 yrs ) Appreciate your dedication & hard work. Most don't realize how difficult that role is...If I've had instruments thrown at me, can imagine you have, too.
As a certified processing tech, I appreciate you and your fellow scrub techs. This video makes me cringe, thinking about all the instrument trays that will get rushed down to get processed as quickly as possible. You've got about an hour's wait, at least! 😮
@@alexbrewer4570The piece of music is called Lux Aeterna, but add the composer's name Clint Mansell, otherwise your search results are just going to be church music
As someone with very little connection to the medical field, it's actually comforting to know the level of conscientiousness is this high. I can see why infection is so much less of a risk than it used to be.
and yet hospitals are still very dirty places... I mean they try... but you have to work VERY HARD at it.. I mean maybe not in surgery.. but just the amount of disease running through the hospital.. all the bacteria etc... I mean this is an ongoing problem. I mean it is like with plane crashes.. with every disaster or problem.. they learn and get better.
@@outoftheforest7652can you stop being pessimistic? Sure those places can get dirty but they are constantly making sure everything gets cleaned especially after patients get discharged. Nothing will stay clean forever but you can keep something clean for as long as you need it to be at that moment. They also don’t put people together in rooms if they have something contagious
@@outoftheforest7652It’s one thing when people repeat “I mean” a lot when they’re talking, but you actually typed it!!! 😂 I mean, you really should stop that. I mean, it’s so annoying. I mean, REALLY annoying!
Before my last c-section the nurse turned to my husband to give him his instructions and before she could start I said hold my hand, tell me im pretty and for the love of all that is, DO NOT touch anything thats blue! She laughed so hard and said that summed it up nicely lol
I remember being a nursing student in the surgery rotation. On day one, a mentor nurse got carried away showing me how to set up for surgery and set something on top of a sterile field. We all gasped, looked at each other for a sec, then started scurrying around to redo it all, lol. Thankfully neither the doctors or patient had arrived yet, and there was time.
The surgeon was touching the book aswell ... I like how the anesthesiologist is always busy on a phone/tablet not giving a damn about what is going on 😂😂
Surgeon probably wasn’t scrubbed in yet if the med student is just grabbing gloves. Likely happened during case set up. Honestly not that big of a deal as long as it doesn’t land on anything that’s a weird 1 off item or an expensive disposable item. If it’s not just throw anything off the table it touched. Change your gloves and put drape tape over the area -signed an OR nurse
As a person who just went through a major surgery, thank you to all surgeons and others in the room for always being clean! It's hard, but means everything to us!
You’re welcome but no need… it’s our job and being ‘clean’ is paramount. It is nice to be appreciated tho. Sometimes we’re forgotten in the operating rooms as in my time, patients remember the ward care than surgical care. Ah well. 😊
I recently had surgery too. After waiting more than 2 months for an appointment, going off NSAIDs for 2 weeks, carefully not eating for 12 hours prior, and getting up at 3 AM to take only & exactly the medications they specified with just a sip of water, the pre-op nurse hands me a couple of acetaminophen and a big cup of water. "They want you to take this now" and I'm like "huh? this won't get my surgery cancelled?" Everything worked out fine, but is this a common practice now? Gastric emptying half-time in a healthy person is about 30 minutes, so I have always wondered if the NPO arter midnight thing was overkill.
1-I have literally grabbed gloves out of a students hands before because they were about to do exactly this. 2-I give the disclaimer "do not touch anything blue" to all students. Along with, "If you start to feel lightheaded or nauseous, please find a wall to slide down and try and flag me down. Whatever you do, if you think you're about to pass out, please fall away from the field." 😂
But what did he do? It seems that the scrub tech and nurse were panicking as soon as the package was opened, long before the gloves were tossed onto the table.
@@Joy21090 they’ve seen it happen so many times they knew he was going to toss his gloves onto the sterile field. you never grab your sterile gloves by the outside bc they’re then considered dirty.
@Joy21090 Students are not to be trusted until proven otherwise. Their mistake was not having eyes on him the second he had the glove wrapper in his hand. Preferrably while being within grabbing range.
Been there and totally done that. The nurses taught us how to scrub and stay sterile when I started my surg rotation in med school. However, there were these cabinets hanging from the ceiling that provided extra outlets and so on; these were about at head level. (ORs don't have these anymore; this was an old hospital in Manhattan in 1989.) As I pulled on my gown, I put my arm up too high and the sleeve brushed one of these cabinets. The surgeon, a temperamental type who frequently threw instruments across the room that he felt were substandard, immediately hollered, "who taught that med student to scrub and gown? Get him out of here." Welcome to surgery, bro!
@@rusinoe8364 although during residency, after I was over the med school abuse, I got so good at sections that the OBs were letting me operate. The knowledge has been useful even though I only do skin procedures and wound closures.
😂 been there. My 1st time as a med student in the OR, I wiped my eye with the back of my hand. The OR nurse screamed "Unsterile, Unsterile!!". I felt so much shame and had to rescrub... never again will I make that mistake! 😅
@@vikar6232suffer or ask a trusted non sterile person to scratch your nose, push up your glasses, pull your mask down out of your eyes, whatever. Im in vet med and ive had several docs ask for some help from me while they were operating.
I‘ve never been more aware of my surroundings while being present in the OR. I remember standing in the corner thinking „alright, so now just don‘t touch anything or anyone, you can do this“ 😂
having had a post surgical infection that resulted in a hospital stay, I appreciate the efforts to prevent contamination. Also - this is frlggin hilarious!
I went in for a procedure at 0600. The nurse asked when I last ate. I said 12:00 pm yesterday. She put 12:00 am on the paperwork. The anesthesiologist came to talk with me about why they were rescheduling. I told him, no, nothing by mouth since 12:00 pm yesterday. 12 pm is when there's daylight and 12 am is when it's dark. Lol the nurse actually did not understand the difference. She learnt that day. And, I got my procedure.
Whoa! She didn't use 1200 (Standard Military time with prior day's date ? ) Not usual standard in Surgery Center or Hospitals for Pre-Op Nurse to use am or pm unless it's instructions to patient. Nurses are trained & tested prior to caring for patients, must be signed off on. Unsure how that happened, hope standards aren't being lowered now.
That's kind of horrifying. If a nurse doesn't know the difference between a.m. & p.m. they probably shouldn't be a nurse. Proper timekeeping on a patient's chart is rather important. What if she wrote down the wrong time someone last received their medication & the patient was given meds again too soon or not soon enough? She could easily kill someone that way.
@@AlexEs63 i honestly didn't believe the story. A nurse wouldn't change the time, she/he would make sure. I can't believe that at something so important both parts wouldn't make sure everything is understood.
Perhaps the nurse made an error when charting but I’m assure you, she did know the difference. Medicine uses military time to avoid this issue, so I’m betting there was an issue with communication, not the nurse’s competency.
This reminds me of when I was having surgery on my eyelid. I'd just been anaesthetised and was still awake. I was asked "are you awake?" and I could only nod. I saw the scalpel retract away from my face. I swear he was like "don't nod" or "hold still" or something. Damn impatient, knock me out first!
Natural reddish blonde here. I’ve asked the anesthesiologist MYSELF why I was still awake (the mostly blonde throws them off, my tolerance is that of a redhead). And I’ve explained that I need my blood to be about 90% Zofran or I’ll be stuck in the hospital for 5 days with incessant puking. I’m an anesthesiologist’s nightmare. 😂
@@HawkeyeBrookeI have that issue with dental work. It takes twice the normal dose of novocaine to fully numb me and even then I can still feel touch but not pain.
@@dragonsfanges101 wow, I never ask for anycaine, I can bear most dental work. At least I really feel how the teeth touch when the height is set up. you imight want to try.. :)
My dad told me a memorable story from when he was a med student. A girl from his class was scrubbing for surgery and the attending was next to her scrubbing as well. He looks over and says: aren’t you going to take off your watch. She says: oh it’s ok…it’s waterproof 😂😂
My Nan was a registered nurse. Anytime she watched a cooking show where the chef was wearing a ring, she would always comment "that's filthy. You know much bacteria is under that ring? they should take it off and scrub before handling food!"
Retired surgical nurse here… 28 years. I was a scrub tech in nursing school and a circulator/scrub after I got my RN. Started out at Oklahoma State’s teaching hospital, Oklahoma Memorial at the time. I had a GYN contaminate an instrument so I handed it off and told my circulator to flash (sterilize) it. He asked for it and I told him it would be 2 more minutes in the flash because it had been contaminated. He got upset, but later apologized and told me I did the right thing. I ended up being one of his favorite nurses to have do artificial inseminations with him because he knew he could trust my technique.
So you did your job😂 I hate people so much. Everyone is so lazy when comes to their jobs and just don’t care. Like this dr that got pissed because you made the exam take longer by literally doing what you were hired to do. I know not everyone sucks at their job, but lately it sure seems like it
the anesthesiologist doom scrolling while the room collectively loses their shit and their patient is completely conscious while intubated was just... *chefs kiss*
Worked NICU, had nurses change into scrubs to start work, yet go outside to smoke, put the same cover up robe on over and over, never changing their scrubs. Had to finally talk to management. 😢
The hospitals in Florida are horrible. Leave stuff inside patients, lazy, cutting corners. Don’t care as long as they get a paycheck. Seems much worse since Covid
The patient shakes his head, smiling. For he will go home without the pain and scars from surgery, but instead the slight euphoric buzz the anesthesiologist so graciously granted before turning of the machine.
This gave me anxiety 😂😂 I knew exactly what was going to happen. The music is on point too love it. As a surgical tech this brought a tear to my eye too 😂😂
I have literally had this happen hahaha. The Med student knew he did wrong so I couldn’t even be mad. Like a puppy when it puddles on the rug…aww it’s okay puppy we all make accidents hahaha
@@mkat8505 Are you stupid or something? They just put sterile things in the blue covered table so you know they're sterile. That's all. Blue isn't radioactive, you fuckin' moron.
@mkat8505 The point is they shouldn't touch the blue part of the gloves because it won't be sterile anymore. It's then contaminated by your bare hands and its bacteria and oils. If you're operating a person, you'll have to make sure absolutely no contamination takes place or the person could develop major complications.
Explanation Blue stuff are sterile and shouldn’t be touched. So when he takes the sterile gloves out with unwashed hands and then places it on the sterile field, it will be considered unsterile and they (OR) have to remove the whole set and redo everything
CVOR tech here, I work at a learning hospital now after coming from private practice. The med students Ive worked with have all been very respectful and eager to learn. I actually enjoy the education side and never thought I would ❤
Overall, the med students are great. They just want to be helpful while trying not to screw anything up. I try to give them tasks/jobs in the OR. They really appreciate it.
I love working at a University Level I Trauma/Teaching Hospital; but the despair in this scenario is so real! 😆 Shout out to all my fellow ST’s/CST’s, MD’s, RN’s, CRNA’s, MDA’s, students and all the healthcare hero’s out there! 🙌
"Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell, originally performed by the Kronos Quartet (they're wonderful live, btw!). Very silly movie riddled with inaccuracies and harmful misinformation, but great acting, directing, photography, etc. and an absolutely brilliant soundtrack - one of my favs. It's really too bad the narrative missed the mark, cause it could have been a masterpiece.
@@kahlzun Pretty sure I already said why. Let's see, yup, right there in my original comment. Don't get me wrong, the acting, direction, DofP & all that are phenomenal. You aren't wrong about that. I think it has a lot going for it, which makes the ill-fitting aspects all the more disappointing. It just makes a complete circus of substance use disorders and in no way represents real life cause and effect with regard to SUDs. It starts strong, then just wades into a sea of absurdity and dissociation from reality and it hurts the film's ability to be compelling for anyone who has even a minor grasp of the subject matter (or Google). This _could_ all be the fault of the novel the script was adapted from, but Idk (I haven't read it - if anyone here has, I'd be interested to hear how they compare).
@@franzessie9697yes the blue fields are sterile, I don't know the gloves, but his hands aren't sterile.... And he touched the gloves, and the gloves the blue field...
The scrub tech is basically the one in charge of setting up and maintaining the sterile field, then assisting the surgeon as an extra set of hands during surgery. For contamination and safety reasons, we are trained in a strict environment - so the moment gloves that have not been properly handled hit the blue that table is contaminated. . .no bueno.
The gloves are packaged in a certain manner so that you can put them on only touching the inside with your hand while the outside of the glove remains sterile. . .and many surgeons require double gloves in their ORs for added safety.
When I had surgery done and they gave me some medicine before it. So I was a bit out of it when they told me to take a few steps and move to the operating table. I only remeber that suddenly someone grabbed my shoulders from behind and yelled "NO, NO! DON'T TOUCH THE BLUE LADY!". 😂 And I was just confused, looking at this blue, human shaped figure that had only eyes visible. At least I wasn't worried about the surgery anymore, I was just thinking about that scary blue smurf. 😂😂
Scrub here, oh the horror indeed.... I feel this in my soul lol. When I used to scrub a variety of services, I had a rule for anyone that was going to be scrubbed in, including attendings/residents/ med students, etc. Once I draped the microscope, if you contaminate it you tear it down and re-drape it yourself because I only do it once!
Lol, it was luckily a rule I never had to enforce because my residents and attendings that I worked with all the time knew me well enough to know I meant business. They gave my scope a wide birth. 😂😂
I’ve been trying to find that song for years! Listened to it over and over when I worked a haunted house and wanted to hear it again but it’s hard to look up songs without lyrics 😂. Thank you!
But the scrub tech and nurse panicked before the gloves were tossed on the table. They reacted as soon as he opened the Ziploc bag. If you would be so kind as to help me understand this, I would be very grateful.
Joy, I believe what you're noticing is simply the limitations of this video format. Clearly the tech is supposed to be reacting AS the gloves are being tossed, perhaps mid-air, but we just get a shot/reverse-shot that implies some chronology.
Nah they are reacting because med studs are notorious for contaminating themselves and the techs and nurses don’t trust them to be able to open things correctly. Gotta say though, as an or tech for 8 years and now as a doctor, I’ve never ever seen someone do this lol.
I'm now a doctor in the Netherlands and far from the "surgeon type" but my last day in the OR ever as an intern they casually told me to help with covering up the patient in the sterile material (don't know the official name) and I felt like I had MADE IT.
Absolutely. Clint Mansell's magnum opus, imho. And the film had phenomenal acting, directing, photography, etc. It's just too bad the transparently silly and comically preachy narrative completely missed the mark and is rife with inaccuracies and harmful misinformation... cause it otherwise really did have every ingredient necessary to be a masterpiece of filmmaking. (sigh)
@@AdmiralofU2 in the operating room the blue drapes are sterilized, (along with other stuff such as devices covered in plastic bags). The med student in this clip touched the gloves (therefore contaminated it) and then proceeded to throw the contaminated gloves on the sterilized drape! This means the OR staff have to sterilize it again which can take a lot of time.
@@-ilkis-He touched a unsanitary cabinet and unsanitary packaging before grabbing the outside of the sterile gloves, therefore contaminating them. And of course he threw them onto the table, contaminating the entire surgical field.
It's nice to know that people take the sterility of the OR seriously! I have had quite a few surgeries and have really never felt like the ORs are as clean and sterile as they should be! I always see things that are definitely NOT sterile and I always think of how I would be doing things much differently!! Ahh.. I just HOPE most people are following the rules and keeping others safe just as they'd want if they were on the table! 🤞😄
Shout out to all of the scrub techs and OR nurses out there. As well as cath lab/EP and interventional radiology…really anywhere that requires a sterile environment. I’m a RN and thought I wanted to go that route. I worked cath lab for a while but hated it. It was so stressful to me. So I took up oncology and hospice…which my friends back in the cath lab said would be their worst nightmare. I loved it. I have tons of respect for the men and women dropping all of those sterile fields everyday…that’s not easy work.
Nah if patient's intubated and anesthetized, anesthesiologist will also be pissed as opposed to be not bothered cause they either have to wake patient up or keep re-dosing to keep them asleep. Either way, they have to work.
You would think, but I've found they usually do not care about the delays the way we do (unless it's near the end of the day & they want to go home early) so long as the patient is stable.
Also if they get an infection, not only does the hospital have to pay for ALL treatment involved in treating that infection, they probably have a lawsuit and that's like the *only* thing that the admin cares about. They won't do a surgery with a contaminated field, if for nothing else, to avoid liability.
This reminds me of when I worked in a lab, and we had to removed genetic material from the area using DNase and RNase. He couldn’t touch it once it was clean because you would re-contaminated. You couldn’t touch anything else either because your gloves were also clean. The number of times I had to tell people to change their gloves because they touched their lab coat or the back of a chair……..
Also why you keep an eye on the med student getting their gown / gloves. Had one try to hand unopened supplies to our scrub at the field before. She just yelled my name, and I took the supplies while sending the student to scrub.
This was hard to watch. I also dont understand why the gloves were in a ziploc. were they supposed to be reg exam gloves? During one of my OR days during nursing school, the resident asked me to help her with her gown (assuming that i was a team member). Needless to say that resident had to regown, and god bless the patience of the circulator. My next OR day, i was afraid to touch anything or get too close.
@@mrsfoodie9911 If he's having a lick, he could have had more earlier. They're not going to pump his stomach to check so it's better to postpone the whole procedure than have him begin vomiting a bunch of peanut butter on the OR table.
I almost had an orbital decompression surgery canceled because I was chewing gum, because my medication gives me wicked dry mouth and I was also in the process of quitting smoking so I wouldn't undo the surgeries. Fortunately, they decided to "risk it".
I’ll never forget working in the Cath Lab with a new scrub tech who was doing a set up by themselves for the first time with me just watching. They were so proud of themselves when they got done without having to ask any questions except they never put on their sterile gloves and instead did it all barehanded 😂😂. They ended up being a great scrub, but never live that down!
OMG I did that for my first blood collection (on a rubber arm fortunately!) for my end of course placement in Pathology! I was SO proud that I "didn't stuff anything up", then the mentor looked at my hands, cocked an eyebrow, smirked and said... "Sooo, tell me what you missed" I still feel blood raging to my cheeks every time I think of it lol
My heart sank! 😂 I feel so bad for the scrub tech and OR nurses. Clearly, this med student didn’t have a nursing instructor hovering over his shoulder for months, and it shows 🤣🤣
I'm in nursing school and almost finished but I'm not a CNA! There's still things that I'm unsure of for the floor but I'm working as an ER tech currently and plan on staying ER or ICU. Somehow still managing!
This one med students scrubbed into a neuro case without a lead apron because she didn't think she was allowed to take one off of the racks. I went and rolled in the lead shield for her to stand behind and have made sure she has lead ever since. We need to take care of our med students!
Painful, so painful. I was looking for lead, and the only neck shields left were all embroidered with someone's name. I spent a long time trying to find one, and then a staff member walks in and asks what I am looking for. She points to the stack of shields. I tell her they all belong to someone... she then asks me if I am a student.
Soo damn true I can't. Thank you so much for all the laughs. Would work with you; 100%. I once had a med student who sticked the neutral electrode on his own leg. Poor fellows - take care of your med students they need some love and support :D
I’ve done this before when I was doing work experience at a hospital in high school. Literally did the exact same thing, I opened the packet and let the gloves fall onto the cart that had the blue cloth thing 🙈 the nurses were all like ‘No!’ then explained what I had done wrong. I felt so horrible over it but they were nice about it and said it was ok and they were very understanding then the nurses just chucked everything out and prepared a new sterilised pack 😅
@@HolySteavy I guess anything blue on anything sitting on a blue sheet/cloth must be sterile. If something unsterile touches it, the whole tray needs to be replaced.
we once had a patient who left the OR holding area and got food bc he got hungry and came back up to the unit saying he's ready for surgery. needless to say the surgeon was not very happy with him
Oh man! Giving me serious anxiety for my upcoming surgery rotation 😅 I was so confused what he did wrong and was like the fact I don’t know means it’s gonna happen to MEEE! Gown first. Everything (except the floor with your feet) is lava. Don’t touch the lava.
Don't worry too much, just try to stay aware and do whatever you're told. Nobody can expect you to just magically know these things and everyone contaminates something at some point in their career. Don't be afraid to ask the OR nurses questions either, it can be intimidating but they usually appreciate you showing interest.
I'm not in medicine, and I am confused. Why can't you touch anything blue? Also, how do you keep your hands sterile if you need to go to a cabinet to open something in order to put on the gloves?
Blue drapes, plus some other things are sterile. The cabinet is not, neither the outside of the glove bag. If you are unsterile, you're supposed to open the bag from "the outside" and let the sterile item (here gloves) fall onto the sterile area. The gloves are sterile both inside and outside from manufacturer, but if you put them on (correctly) by yourself, the inside then becomes non-sterile since your hands and arms can be very clean after scrub (scrubbing?) but not sterile. As others have said, sterile gloves are folded at the wrists to "protect" the outside when you put them on.
Here's an example video of putting on sterile gloves on your own and how the fold is used to keep the outside of the gloves sterile! : ruclips.net/video/lumZOF-METc/видео.html
It was. Depending on the case that could be a huge delay. I don't know what they teach y'all about the OR before you get there, but it is wrong. And when we say stay a foot and a half away, there is a reason.
Never worked in an ER, but I did a lot of in-home care that requires sterile fields for wound/stoma/catheter care. Once trained a CNA of 25 years who COULD NOT maintain a sterile field for the life of her. She would get iodine everywhere, as well as insert the catheter with a contaminated hand. It was beyond frustrating knowing how something needs to be done and the person being unable to properly execute it. Adversely, I trained a young foreign girl who had zero medical experience and perfectly executed a sterile field and catheter insertion on her first try after watching me demonstrate. She did so well that I gave her a resounding recommendation when she decided to get her certification and work in a hospital only months later. It's really hard to find people that can so accurately and precisely do something just upon demonstration.
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The anesthesiologist not giving a damn was the best part lol
That and the patient glaring when he's supposed to be under sent me 😂
I laughed audibly and startled my cat. 😅
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Patient be like
Arggg can I eat now knowing he has to fast again
They are always busy on their phones. I'm actually surprised this one here had a big tablet 😂
We don't.
Dude the anesthesiologist was in charge of music selection when I was in a surgery I had to be awake for a few years back and this man really played "Don't Fear the Reaper" 😂😂
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Peak anesthesiology 😂
I’ve played it while waiting for an emergency. It’s a good song
DAMN
Had to cancel a patient that ate a chicken sandwich right before his OR. Was told "nothing to eat before you get to the hospital" so once he got there...
Oh god!😂
Vague directions. My brother would be eating in the car ride there. It's most helpful to say "No food X hours before your surgery."
It's like the time I got blood drawn for labs and was told to fast. Because they refused to answer concretely "How long should I fast?" I did a 24 hour fast just to be sure. And apparently that messed up some of my results.
😂😂😂
@@janinawaz4596 nah anyone with common sense would understand that if you can’t eat before arriving, you shouldn’t eat after arriving
@@janinawaz4596 Yup. A few years ago, I was having a procedure under twilight sedation. They told me no food (not NPO). I forget why, but I had a couple of sips of liquid (I have Sjögren’s Syndrome, which causes pretty wicked dry mouth, so maybe that). It was 4am, so I couldn’t get a good answer from anyone, so I took the drink. It was probably no more than 4 ounces (118 ml). My procedure was supposed to be at 8am. I’d had no food and only 4 ounces of liquid since 9pm the night before. They shuffled the schedule around and made me wait until noon. I was thankful they could still fit me in, but also annoyed that my instructions didn’t say NPO. I’ve had enough surgeries to understand NPO, but in my head, “no food” wasn’t the same as “NPO.” Oh well. Lesson learned!
Back when I was a student I was scrubbed in and realized I had just touched my mask and glasses. I immediately called myself out and stepped away from the table. Scrub tech was amazed and appreciative. And on point for a surgical rotation; that was the only compliment I got…that I identified that I screwed something up before the surgeon. Lol.
Seen a surgeon do that to himself. "Touched my nose."
I’m not a medical person.. can you explain this skit? Why did they toss the new gloves on the table and why’s it bad?
@@Eeeeeeeeejapparently the blue area is sterile and you can't place or touch it to contaminate it. The staff has to sanitise it again.
@@Eeeeeeeeej everything blue in a surgical setting is sterile. Anything introduced to it has to be sterile. If anything touches it that isn’t known to be sterile everything has to be redone.
@sofiakangas8796 but the scrub tech starts to react before the med student has even taken the gloves out of the bag. That threw me off. Thanks for the clarification.
To explain.
1. Your nails may be harboring germs that can make you sick (worse with long or fake nails)
2. Potentially "fatal" germs can lurk under hospital workers' nails. (Patient immune system is weaker during and after surgery)
Studies have found 32 different bacteria and *28 different fungi* underneath fingernails.
3. When you open gloves you need to pull them out by the inner lining *only* for good infection control.
4. The moment the student touched the purple nitrile [most sterile glove] they became contaminated by the students [regardless of scrubbing] fingers.
5. The student laid the [now] contaminated gloves on the Blue, thus contaminating the Blue.
Now staff will have to start over with infection control procedures impacting time constraints on *everything*.
These things are taken very seriously in order to keep all patients alive and well. Hospital staff intend to save lives and not forsake them.
Thank you! Was scrolling through comments particularly for this explanation.
Thank you for explaining this! I was so lost 😂😂
but why is the anesthesiologist always depicted using their devicescduring surgery if thats the case?
Thank you for explaining
@@leeknow8299Because they aren't a surgeon, their job is to put you under anesthesia and make sure that you stay asleep throughout the procedure and then take you off and a seizure in time for you to wake up. They don't really have to do anything during the surgery or before the surgery and tell it's time for them to put the person under anesthesia
As a Certified Surgical Technologist (aka "scrub tech") for 40+ years, this brought back so many memories. I can laugh now, but dang it was hard to tear down and re-setup everything immediately and then get blamed for the delay. But, I did love those 3rd year med students and teaching them how to scrub and stay sterile, especially when they came back as surgeons, as we always had good old stories to hold over their heads! Rarely had to use that ammo, though as one look from me said everything and then they behaved. Ah, it was an awesome life's work! Thanks for bringing these memories back!
Thank you for the work you do! I'm sure those med students really appreciate your teaching
I feel your pain of tearing down entire set-up and re-starting.. especially, when we're down on sterile supplies 😅 (Was OR Nurse for 25 yrs ) Appreciate your dedication & hard work. Most don't realize how difficult that role is...If I've had instruments thrown at me, can imagine you have, too.
Don't fret-- someone figured out how to blame the anesthesiologist for that delay. ☹
As a certified processing tech, I appreciate you and your fellow scrub techs. This video makes me cringe, thinking about all the instrument trays that will get rushed down to get processed as quickly as possible. You've got about an hour's wait, at least! 😮
@@AlexEs63 Instruments thrown at you??? What kind of person does that??
Fantastic music choice for this skit. Hear the despair, witness the agony of those involved.
What's the song name? I've had it rattling in my head for years.
@@alexbrewer4570 It's the main theme from Requiem for a Dream.
I was going to guess soundtrack from The Fountain.
@@alexbrewer4570The piece of music is called Lux Aeterna, but add the composer's name Clint Mansell, otherwise your search results are just going to be church music
@@alexbrewer4570It's called Requiem For a Dream. It's the theme for a movie, but the theme is exquisite.
As someone with very little connection to the medical field, it's actually comforting to know the level of conscientiousness is this high. I can see why infection is so much less of a risk than it used to be.
Yes! 🙌 There is actually a term for this and it is referred to as your (or rather, “our”) “surgical conscious”! xo 😘
And it is very much palpable in the OR 😅
and yet hospitals are still very dirty places... I mean they try... but you have to work VERY HARD at it.. I mean maybe not in surgery.. but just the amount of disease running through the hospital.. all the bacteria etc... I mean this is an ongoing problem. I mean it is like with plane crashes.. with every disaster or problem.. they learn and get better.
@@outoftheforest7652can you stop being pessimistic? Sure those places can get dirty but they are constantly making sure everything gets cleaned especially after patients get discharged. Nothing will stay clean forever but you can keep something clean for as long as you need it to be at that moment. They also don’t put people together in rooms if they have something contagious
@@outoftheforest7652It’s one thing when people repeat “I mean” a lot when they’re talking, but you actually typed it!!! 😂 I mean, you really should stop that. I mean, it’s so annoying. I mean, REALLY annoying!
Before my last c-section the nurse turned to my husband to give him his instructions and before she could start I said hold my hand, tell me im pretty and for the love of all that is, DO NOT touch anything thats blue! She laughed so hard and said that summed it up nicely lol
I remember being a nursing student in the surgery rotation. On day one, a mentor nurse got carried away showing me how to set up for surgery and set something on top of a sterile field. We all gasped, looked at each other for a sec, then started scurrying around to redo it all, lol. Thankfully neither the doctors or patient had arrived yet, and there was time.
I like how since the contamination already happened, the OR nurse just grabs the surgical mask with their hand
The OR nurse isn’t sterile…
The surgeon was touching the book aswell
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I like how the anesthesiologist is always busy on a phone/tablet not giving a damn about what is going on 😂😂
its just his side hustle while going to anesthesiology school
Surgeon probably wasn’t scrubbed in yet if the med student is just grabbing gloves. Likely happened during case set up. Honestly not that big of a deal as long as it doesn’t land on anything that’s a weird 1 off item or an expensive disposable item. If it’s not just throw anything off the table it touched. Change your gloves and put drape tape over the area
-signed an OR nurse
The OR nurse has a passive sterile ability
I had a Ortho doctor drop a made to fit knee replacement on the floor. The whole day was canceled. Thanks, Ortho Bro!
😳
Could it be cleaned? Or did it have to be remade entirely from scratch?
@@Joy21090 depending on the materials it may be able to be re-sterilized but it will take time.
😱
Bruh how do you explain to your patient that you dropped their knee on the floor and they have to take all those days off work again.
As a person who just went through a major surgery, thank you to all surgeons and others in the room for always being clean! It's hard, but means everything to us!
Amen 🙌🏼
You’re welcome but no need… it’s our job and being ‘clean’ is paramount. It is nice to be appreciated tho. Sometimes we’re forgotten in the operating rooms as in my time, patients remember the ward care than surgical care. Ah well. 😊
As another person who’s had major surgeries, you could say it’s literally life or death-
I recently had surgery too. After waiting more than 2 months for an appointment, going off NSAIDs for 2 weeks, carefully not eating for 12 hours prior, and getting up at 3 AM to take only & exactly the medications they specified with just a sip of water, the pre-op nurse hands me a couple of acetaminophen and a big cup of water. "They want you to take this now" and I'm like "huh? this won't get my surgery cancelled?" Everything worked out fine, but is this a common practice now? Gastric emptying half-time in a healthy person is about 30 minutes, so I have always wondered if the NPO arter midnight thing was overkill.
@@MyFiddlePlayerthis happened to me too about a month ago before surgery! Must be common practice now
This was me last week…I’m the Med student, the Med student is me😩!
The whole theatre freaking screamed! 😭
You poor thing 😢
@@meekainc2650 🤧
It's OK. We all make mistakes. You are learning now. You'll be pro in a few years ❤.
Wait what happened?
@@madhuparnaghosh6254 Amen to that 👌🏾
First time in the OR surgeon told me: “Put your hands here, don’t move, and if you start to feel light headed, faint backwards.”
1-I have literally grabbed gloves out of a students hands before because they were about to do exactly this.
2-I give the disclaimer "do not touch anything blue" to all students. Along with, "If you start to feel lightheaded or nauseous, please find a wall to slide down and try and flag me down. Whatever you do, if you think you're about to pass out, please fall away from the field." 😂
But what did he do? It seems that the scrub tech and nurse were panicking as soon as the package was opened, long before the gloves were tossed onto the table.
@@Joy21090 they’ve seen it happen so many times they knew he was going to toss his gloves onto the sterile field. you never grab your sterile gloves by the outside bc they’re then considered dirty.
@Joy21090 Students are not to be trusted until proven otherwise. Their mistake was not having eyes on him the second he had the glove wrapper in his hand. Preferrably while being within grabbing range.
@@M0rgan-C Thanks!
@@NoPowerintheVerse Thanks!
Been there and totally done that. The nurses taught us how to scrub and stay sterile when I started my surg rotation in med school. However, there were these cabinets hanging from the ceiling that provided extra outlets and so on; these were about at head level. (ORs don't have these anymore; this was an old hospital in Manhattan in 1989.) As I pulled on my gown, I put my arm up too high and the sleeve brushed one of these cabinets. The surgeon, a temperamental type who frequently threw instruments across the room that he felt were substandard, immediately hollered, "who taught that med student to scrub and gown? Get him out of here." Welcome to surgery, bro!
And this is why I don't want to do surgery. It's the family med life for me
@@rusinoe8364 that’s what I chose even way back then😁
@@rusinoe8364 although during residency, after I was over the med school abuse, I got so good at sections that the OBs were letting me operate. The knowledge has been useful even though I only do skin procedures and wound closures.
Sounds like a stable, balanced guy that I would want to operate on me.
@@Feralsquirrel 1989, hopefully he's retired
😂 been there. My 1st time as a med student in the OR, I wiped my eye with the back of my hand. The OR nurse screamed "Unsterile, Unsterile!!". I felt so much shame and had to rescrub... never again will I make that mistake! 😅
I obviously dont work in the medical field, what do you do if something is itchy? or if you have to sneeze?
@@vikar6232I have non of the needed qualifications required to answer this, but I'd imagine the the answer is suffer.
@@vikar6232suffer or ask a trusted non sterile person to scratch your nose, push up your glasses, pull your mask down out of your eyes, whatever. Im in vet med and ive had several docs ask for some help from me while they were operating.
Same. Same. Just a few months ago. 😂😂 The shame. The horror.
Can you use your shoulder?
I‘ve never been more aware of my surroundings while being present in the OR. I remember standing in the corner thinking „alright, so now just don‘t touch anything or anyone, you can do this“ 😂
having had a post surgical infection that resulted in a hospital stay, I appreciate the efforts to prevent contamination. Also - this is frlggin hilarious!
I went in for a procedure at 0600. The nurse asked when I last ate. I said 12:00 pm yesterday. She put 12:00 am on the paperwork. The anesthesiologist came to talk with me about why they were rescheduling. I told him, no, nothing by mouth since 12:00 pm yesterday. 12 pm is when there's daylight and 12 am is when it's dark. Lol the nurse actually did not understand the difference. She learnt that day. And, I got my procedure.
Whoa! She didn't use 1200 (Standard Military time with prior day's date ? ) Not usual standard in Surgery Center or Hospitals for Pre-Op Nurse to use am or pm unless it's instructions to patient. Nurses are trained & tested prior to caring for patients, must be signed off on. Unsure how that happened, hope standards aren't being lowered now.
That's kind of horrifying. If a nurse doesn't know the difference between a.m. & p.m. they probably shouldn't be a nurse. Proper timekeeping on a patient's chart is rather important. What if she wrote down the wrong time someone last received their medication & the patient was given meds again too soon or not soon enough? She could easily kill someone that way.
@@AlexEs63 i honestly didn't believe the story. A nurse wouldn't change the time, she/he would make sure. I can't believe that at something so important both parts wouldn't make sure everything is understood.
Perhaps the nurse made an error when charting but I’m assure you, she did know the difference. Medicine uses military time to avoid this issue, so I’m betting there was an issue with communication, not the nurse’s competency.
@@AlexEs63standard military time for 1200 is 0000
The patient woke up out of their anesthesia just to shake their head in disapproval 😂
surgeon: anaesthesia, why is my patient awake ?
This reminds me of when I was having surgery on my eyelid. I'd just been anaesthetised and was still awake. I was asked "are you awake?" and I could only nod. I saw the scalpel retract away from my face. I swear he was like "don't nod" or "hold still" or something. Damn impatient, knock me out first!
Natural reddish blonde here. I’ve asked the anesthesiologist MYSELF why I was still awake (the mostly blonde throws them off, my tolerance is that of a redhead). And I’ve explained that I need my blood to be about 90% Zofran or I’ll be stuck in the hospital for 5 days with incessant puking. I’m an anesthesiologist’s nightmare. 😂
@@HawkeyeBrookeshut the fuck up. That’s some zodiac sign logic right there.
@@HawkeyeBrookeI have that issue with dental work. It takes twice the normal dose of novocaine to fully numb me and even then I can still feel touch but not pain.
@@dragonsfanges101 wow, I never ask for anycaine, I can bear most dental work. At least I really feel how the teeth touch when the height is set up. you imight want to try.. :)
"I felt a great disturbance in the OR.. as if a thousand surgical techs voices screaming out were silenced"
Epic!
As an anesthesiologist in training, I can vouch that this is absolutely correct
My dad told me a memorable story from when he was a med student.
A girl from his class was scrubbing for surgery and the attending was next to her scrubbing as well. He looks over and says: aren’t you going to take off your watch.
She says: oh it’s ok…it’s waterproof 😂😂
Lmao😂
😳🤦♀️
The attending then promptly threw the watch in the trash (with it still on). He was a tiny bit sad in doing so because it was an Omega.
My Nan was a registered nurse. Anytime she watched a cooking show where the chef was wearing a ring, she would always comment "that's filthy. You know much bacteria is under that ring? they should take it off and scrub before handling food!"
"It's also sterile proof -- get out of my classroom"
This wasn't idle conversation, how did she not get that 😂
I didn't touch anything blue but I did touch an xray machine wrapped in plastic....and thus annoyed the radiology tech 😬
Almost did that few weeks ago, was a close call.
Why is that bad?
@@ozzynator456 plastic is the equivalent of blue drapes for many of the maneuverable machines that may come into contact with the surgical field
That's why I say blue or clear. Of course, everyone in the OR has contaminated something in their time.
X-ray tech here. Blue and green, away you lean. If it's bagged, avoid like plague!
I love that you go all in on the wardrobe budget. 😂
💯👍
Bro's been an MD for... Idek how many years, works out of at least 2 different offices and a hospital - prob has lots of this lying around.
Retired surgical nurse here… 28 years. I was a scrub tech in nursing school and a circulator/scrub after I got my RN. Started out at Oklahoma State’s teaching hospital, Oklahoma Memorial at the time.
I had a GYN contaminate an instrument so I handed it off and told my circulator to flash (sterilize) it. He asked for it and I told him it would be 2 more minutes in the flash because it had been contaminated. He got upset, but later apologized and told me I did the right thing. I ended up being one of his favorite nurses to have do artificial inseminations with him because he knew he could trust my technique.
So you did your job😂 I hate people so much. Everyone is so lazy when comes to their jobs and just don’t care. Like this dr that got pissed because you made the exam take longer by literally doing what you were hired to do. I know not everyone sucks at their job, but lately it sure seems like it
It’s hysterical how well you nail these lmfao the anesthesiologist scrolling his phone ignoring everything sent me
the anesthesiologist doom scrolling while the room collectively loses their shit and their patient is completely conscious while intubated was just... *chefs kiss*
True story. Tragic. But, a valuable lesson was learned that day and the med student never did that again. Ever.
Worked NICU, had nurses change into scrubs to start work, yet go outside to smoke, put the same cover up robe on over and over, never changing their scrubs. Had to finally talk to management. 😢
😱😱😱 that’s insane!!!
In the NICU? Insane, thank you for speaking up about it.
I saw a nurse mixing meds using her pinkie. In a first world country. People can really be that unhygienic and inconsiderate.
The hospitals in Florida are horrible. Leave stuff inside patients, lazy, cutting corners. Don’t care as long as they get a paycheck. Seems much worse since Covid
This happens all the time in food prep and service.why do they even bother in the first place 😂❤🙏
The patient shakes his head, smiling. For he will go home without the pain and scars from surgery, but instead the slight euphoric buzz the anesthesiologist so graciously granted before turning of the machine.
This gave me anxiety 😂😂 I knew exactly what was going to happen. The music is on point too love it. As a surgical tech this brought a tear to my eye too 😂😂
I have literally had this happen hahaha. The Med student knew he did wrong so I couldn’t even be mad. Like a puppy when it puddles on the rug…aww it’s okay puppy we all make accidents hahaha
@@mkat8505 Are you stupid or something?
They just put sterile things in the blue covered table so you know they're sterile. That's all. Blue isn't radioactive, you fuckin' moron.
@@mkat8505 anything in the blue paper in the OR is sterile
@mkat8505 The point is they shouldn't touch the blue part of the gloves because it won't be sterile anymore. It's then contaminated by your bare hands and its bacteria and oils. If you're operating a person, you'll have to make sure absolutely no contamination takes place or the person could develop major complications.
@horsegirlsanne What are you talking about? What part of the gloves are/arent blue? It is clearly not what is happening
@ThatSB the inside isn't blue. And yes that is absolutely what is being implied in this video
Surgeon: I feel a disturbance in the force
Underrated comment ❤
Thought for sure the anesthesiologist would be deep into his Sudoku book at that point.
The iPad has a sudoku app installed on it
Explanation
Blue stuff are sterile and shouldn’t be touched. So when he takes the sterile gloves out with unwashed hands and then places it on the sterile field, it will be considered unsterile and they (OR) have to remove the whole set and redo everything
THANKYOU NOW I GET IT
That was the most epic dramatic reenactment of anything that I have ever seen! Thank you for making my day
CVOR tech here, I work at a learning hospital now after coming from private practice. The med students Ive worked with have all been very respectful and eager to learn. I actually enjoy the education side and never thought I would ❤
I appreciate you sharing! Nice!!
Overall, the med students are great. They just want to be helpful while trying not to screw anything up. I try to give them tasks/jobs in the OR. They really appreciate it.
When he puts the patient's reaction, it cracks me up every time 😂😂😂
The anaesthesiologist playing candy crush or some other game and not giving a fuck was the best part 😂
And they held a funeral for the med student shortly after.
I love working at a University Level I Trauma/Teaching Hospital; but the despair in this scenario is so real! 😆 Shout out to all my fellow ST’s/CST’s, MD’s, RN’s, CRNA’s, MDA’s, students and all the healthcare hero’s out there! 🙌
unexpected "Requiem for a Dream" intermission. Exactly how I felt when I put the gloves before the scrubs
"Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell, originally performed by the Kronos Quartet (they're wonderful live, btw!). Very silly movie riddled with inaccuracies and harmful misinformation, but great acting, directing, photography, etc. and an absolutely brilliant soundtrack - one of my favs.
It's really too bad the narrative missed the mark, cause it could have been a masterpiece.
@@kvjackal7980 in what way did it miss the mark? The movie was one of the most depressing and emotionally painful things i've ever seen..
@@kahlzun Pretty sure I already said why. Let's see, yup, right there in my original comment.
Don't get me wrong, the acting, direction, DofP & all that are phenomenal. You aren't wrong about that. I think it has a lot going for it, which makes the ill-fitting aspects all the more disappointing. It just makes a complete circus of substance use disorders and in no way represents real life cause and effect with regard to SUDs. It starts strong, then just wades into a sea of absurdity and dissociation from reality and it hurts the film's ability to be compelling for anyone who has even a minor grasp of the subject matter (or Google).
This _could_ all be the fault of the novel the script was adapted from, but Idk (I haven't read it - if anyone here has, I'd be interested to hear how they compare).
@@kahlzun" inaccuracies and harmful information '. I'd have to watch the movie to elaborate if I were to concure
I love that even the patient is throwing shade.
As a former scrub tech this touches the innermost reaches of my soul. (:
What is a scrub tech btw? I know nothing of the medical field other than being a patient lol.
Why can he touch nothing blue? Are those the sterile things and the joke is that the blue on the bag isn’t sterile yet?
@@franzessie9697yes the blue fields are sterile, I don't know the gloves, but his hands aren't sterile.... And he touched the gloves, and the gloves the blue field...
The scrub tech is basically the one in charge of setting up and maintaining the sterile field, then assisting the surgeon as an extra set of hands during surgery. For contamination and safety reasons, we are trained in a strict environment - so the moment gloves that have not been properly handled hit the blue that table is contaminated. . .no bueno.
The gloves are packaged in a certain manner so that you can put them on only touching the inside with your hand while the outside of the glove remains sterile. . .and many surgeons require double gloves in their ORs for added safety.
I am on training for a ST and the fact that I completely understood this after 3 weeks of class makes me so happy
That’s the moment the student would usually get the silent stare and everybody in the OR aggressively pointing to the door. You’re done for the day.
When I had surgery done and they gave me some medicine before it. So I was a bit out of it when they told me to take a few steps and move to the operating table. I only remeber that suddenly someone grabbed my shoulders from behind and yelled "NO, NO! DON'T TOUCH THE BLUE LADY!". 😂 And I was just confused, looking at this blue, human shaped figure that had only eyes visible. At least I wasn't worried about the surgery anymore, I was just thinking about that scary blue smurf. 😂😂
How did the patient keep sober on his ET tube 😂
He was so disappointed he woke up
The sheer incompetence negated all of the sedation 😂
Anesthesia failed!!! 😂😂😂
Plot twist it was G-tube.
Sober?
Never, ever turn your back on a sterile field!
This silent short expresses more than a whole movie,
Gg
The anesthesiologist is on point.
Scrub here, oh the horror indeed.... I feel this in my soul lol. When I used to scrub a variety of services, I had a rule for anyone that was going to be scrubbed in, including attendings/residents/ med students, etc. Once I draped the microscope, if you contaminate it you tear it down and re-drape it yourself because I only do it once!
Are they actually allowed to though?
You can refuse and they allow that ? 😅 Not sure the Hospitals and Surgery Centers I've worked at would allow that, I'd be fired soon enough. Lol
Lol, it was luckily a rule I never had to enforce because my residents and attendings that I worked with all the time knew me well enough to know I meant business. They gave my scope a wide birth. 😂😂
I’ve been trying to find that song for years! Listened to it over and over when I worked a haunted house and wanted to hear it again but it’s hard to look up songs without lyrics 😂. Thank you!
It is Réquiem for a dream
The music makes it so much more dramatic, I love it lol!
Every time I come across such videos my respect for doctors and medical professionals just goes up more and more 🙌
The anaesthesiologist scrolling on the tablet killed me😂😂
100% accurate! I've lost count of how many med students threw their gloves on my table. Gotta love them, bless their hearts.
But the scrub tech and nurse panicked before the gloves were tossed on the table. They reacted as soon as he opened the Ziploc bag. If you would be so kind as to help me understand this, I would be very grateful.
Joy, I believe what you're noticing is simply the limitations of this video format. Clearly the tech is supposed to be reacting AS the gloves are being tossed, perhaps mid-air, but we just get a shot/reverse-shot that implies some chronology.
@@danjo2080 thanks!
Nah they are reacting because med studs are notorious for contaminating themselves and the techs and nurses don’t trust them to be able to open things correctly.
Gotta say though, as an or tech for 8 years and now as a doctor, I’ve never ever seen someone do this lol.
No, they are anticipating it, the student is doing ANYTHING independently and is bound to make a mistake somewhere.
I'm now a doctor in the Netherlands and far from the "surgeon type" but my last day in the OR ever as an intern they casually told me to help with covering up the patient in the sterile material (don't know the official name) and I felt like I had MADE IT.
That would have been the kicker for me, too. Once YOU control the last drape, OH MY ! 😊 I get it.
(OR Nurse-27 years)
i love that for you
The patient’s disappointment is immeasurable
I love the background score, time, brought back memories from my undergrad
Im glad im seeing this. I'll be starting my classes for certifications as a sterile processing tech. This does help answer a few questions 💜
Requiem for a dream OST is a masterpiece
Absolutely. Clint Mansell's magnum opus, imho. And the film had phenomenal acting, directing, photography, etc. It's just too bad the transparently silly and comically preachy narrative completely missed the mark and is rife with inaccuracies and harmful misinformation... cause it otherwise really did have every ingredient necessary to be a masterpiece of filmmaking. (sigh)
Got to see this scene in OR before. The OR nurse's dramatic reaction was the best ever. It was like the med student committed a murder or something.
As a former scrub tech, I can confirm this is 100% accurate 😂
What'd he do wrong?
@@AdmiralofU2 yeah, I'm still confused
@@AdmiralofU2 in the operating room the blue drapes are sterilized, (along with other stuff such as devices covered in plastic bags).
The med student in this clip touched the gloves (therefore contaminated it) and then proceeded to throw the contaminated gloves on the sterilized drape! This means the OR staff have to sterilize it again which can take a lot of time.
@@faries4794But he was told to put on gloves, was he supposed to get different ones? And don’t they wash their whole arms before entering the room?
@@-ilkis-He touched a unsanitary cabinet and unsanitary packaging before grabbing the outside of the sterile gloves, therefore contaminating them. And of course he threw them onto the table, contaminating the entire surgical field.
It's nice to know that people take the sterility of the OR seriously! I have had quite a few surgeries and have really never felt like the ORs are as clean and sterile as they should be! I always see things that are definitely NOT sterile and I always think of how I would be doing things much differently!! Ahh.. I just HOPE most people are following the rules and keeping others safe just as they'd want if they were on the table! 🤞😄
Shout out to all of the scrub techs and OR nurses out there. As well as cath lab/EP and interventional radiology…really anywhere that requires a sterile environment. I’m a RN and thought I wanted to go that route. I worked cath lab for a while but hated it. It was so stressful to me. So I took up oncology and hospice…which my friends back in the cath lab said would be their worst nightmare. I loved it.
I have tons of respect for the men and women dropping all of those sterile fields everyday…that’s not easy work.
I feeling blue. I could use a hug. But nooo, don't touch anything blue.
Nah if patient's intubated and anesthetized, anesthesiologist will also be pissed as opposed to be not bothered cause they either have to wake patient up or keep re-dosing to keep them asleep. Either way, they have to work.
I mean all they have to do is keep the gas on or not turn the prop off. If the patient’s tubed, it’s not like they’re just bolusing them all case.
You would think, but I've found they usually do not care about the delays the way we do (unless it's near the end of the day & they want to go home early) so long as the patient is stable.
Also if they get an infection, not only does the hospital have to pay for ALL treatment involved in treating that infection, they probably have a lawsuit and that's like the *only* thing that the admin cares about.
They won't do a surgery with a contaminated field, if for nothing else, to avoid liability.
Why is this so relatable
Love the OR high drama music. Sounds like something we'd actually play during surgery.
The straw in the pts mouth is everything. Lol 😂😂😂😂
That last patient in the queue, who is shifted till the next day because of delay and has to make all the preparation steps one more time ...
This reminds me of when I worked in a lab, and we had to removed genetic material from the area using DNase and RNase. He couldn’t touch it once it was clean because you would re-contaminated. You couldn’t touch anything else either because your gloves were also clean. The number of times I had to tell people to change their gloves because they touched their lab coat or the back of a chair……..
Also why you keep an eye on the med student getting their gown / gloves. Had one try to hand unopened supplies to our scrub at the field before. She just yelled my name, and I took the supplies while sending the student to scrub.
This was hard to watch. I also dont understand why the gloves were in a ziploc. were they supposed to be reg exam gloves? During one of my OR days during nursing school, the resident asked me to help her with her gown (assuming that i was a team member). Needless to say that resident had to regown, and god bless the patience of the circulator. My next OR day, i was afraid to touch anything or get too close.
@@meganshagbark6839 The Ziplock bag was just a prop for the packaging.
@getcomfortable3373 Thank you SO much for the detail behind this short! I was needing some context and there you were. Thanks again 🥰
I didn’t realize how accurate the anesthesia jokes were until I was watching a case and he was legit covered in a hospital blanket on his phone 😭
NOOOOOOOOOO WHYYYYYY MY BACK TABLE!!!
We had a patient get his eye surgery cancelled because "he had a lick of peanut butter"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow, just a lick!!! 😂😂😂
@@mrsfoodie9911 If he's having a lick, he could have had more earlier. They're not going to pump his stomach to check so it's better to postpone the whole procedure than have him begin vomiting a bunch of peanut butter on the OR table.
I almost had an orbital decompression surgery canceled because I was chewing gum, because my medication gives me wicked dry mouth and I was also in the process of quitting smoking so I wouldn't undo the surgeries. Fortunately, they decided to "risk it".
Im guessing you're in vet med?
I’ll never forget working in the Cath Lab with a new scrub tech who was doing a set up by themselves for the first time with me just watching. They were so proud of themselves when they got done without having to ask any questions except they never put on their sterile gloves and instead did it all barehanded 😂😂. They ended up being a great scrub, but never live that down!
OMG I did that for my first blood collection (on a rubber arm fortunately!) for my end of course placement in Pathology! I was SO proud that I "didn't stuff anything up", then the mentor looked at my hands, cocked an eyebrow, smirked and said... "Sooo, tell me what you missed"
I still feel blood raging to my cheeks every time I think of it lol
I love the anesthesiologist!!! So accurate! 😂😂😂
My heart sank! 😂 I feel so bad for the scrub tech and OR nurses. Clearly, this med student didn’t have a nursing instructor hovering over his shoulder for months, and it shows 🤣🤣
This is why Operating Room Care Techs or CNA is such a valuable pre med job. Understanding these things before med school helps so much.
Yup!! I'm a CNA currently in nursing school with people who have never been cnas/techs/assistants and I honestly don't know how they're doing it
I'm in nursing school and almost finished but I'm not a CNA! There's still things that I'm unsure of for the floor but I'm working as an ER tech currently and plan on staying ER or ICU. Somehow still managing!
This one med students scrubbed into a neuro case without a lead apron because she didn't think she was allowed to take one off of the racks. I went and rolled in the lead shield for her to stand behind and have made sure she has lead ever since. We need to take care of our med students!
Painful, so painful. I was looking for lead, and the only neck shields left were all embroidered with someone's name. I spent a long time trying to find one, and then a staff member walks in and asks what I am looking for. She points to the stack of shields. I tell her they all belong to someone... she then asks me if I am a student.
This is even more horrifying thanks to the Requiem for a Dream music....
Soo damn true I can't. Thank you so much for all the laughs. Would work with you; 100%. I once had a med student who sticked the neutral electrode on his own leg. Poor fellows - take care of your med students they need some love and support :D
All of these videos are pretty funny but this one take the cake 😂😂😂
I’ve done this before when I was doing work experience at a hospital in high school. Literally did the exact same thing, I opened the packet and let the gloves fall onto the cart that had the blue cloth thing 🙈 the nurses were all like ‘No!’ then explained what I had done wrong. I felt so horrible over it but they were nice about it and said it was ok and they were very understanding then the nurses just chucked everything out and prepared a new sterilised pack 😅
What's the problem with blue thi
@@HolySteavy I guess anything blue on anything sitting on a blue sheet/cloth must be sterile. If something unsterile touches it, the whole tray needs to be replaced.
we once had a patient who left the OR holding area and got food bc he got hungry and came back up to the unit saying he's ready for surgery. needless to say the surgeon was not very happy with him
Oh man! Giving me serious anxiety for my upcoming surgery rotation 😅 I was so confused what he did wrong and was like the fact I don’t know means it’s gonna happen to MEEE! Gown first. Everything (except the floor with your feet) is lava. Don’t touch the lava.
And dont put anything on a field that you touched. When in doubt, ask the tech. Pride has no place in learning.
@@seasq ah yes forgot to mention you are lava. Anything you touch is also lava. Don’t spread the fire (germs)
@@alatheiaproue4839 I've always wanted to be a lava monster 😍
Don't worry too much, just try to stay aware and do whatever you're told. Nobody can expect you to just magically know these things and everyone contaminates something at some point in their career. Don't be afraid to ask the OR nurses questions either, it can be intimidating but they usually appreciate you showing interest.
My mum was an anesthesiologist..... .I wish she were still here so we could laugh over all of these videos. You are so funny and valuable. Thanks
I LOVE that you use the music from "Requiem for a Dream"!
I'm not in medicine, and I am confused. Why can't you touch anything blue? Also, how do you keep your hands sterile if you need to go to a cabinet to open something in order to put on the gloves?
Blue drapes, plus some other things are sterile.
The cabinet is not, neither the outside of the glove bag. If you are unsterile, you're supposed to open the bag from "the outside" and let the sterile item (here gloves) fall onto the sterile area.
The gloves are sterile both inside and outside from manufacturer, but if you put them on (correctly) by yourself, the inside then becomes non-sterile since your hands and arms can be very clean after scrub (scrubbing?) but not sterile. As others have said, sterile gloves are folded at the wrists to "protect" the outside when you put them on.
It should all be prepared before you scrub in and there should also always be someone who is not sterile there to assist.
@@christinae30thanks for your explanation. 🌹
@@iz2333Heh, that's kinda ironic, even if it makes perfect sense.
Here's an example video of putting on sterile gloves on your own and how the fold is used to keep the outside of the gloves sterile! : ruclips.net/video/lumZOF-METc/видео.html
I brushed up against something blue once in the OR. Very relatable. Was as if the world was ending.
It was. Depending on the case that could be a huge delay.
I don't know what they teach y'all about the OR before you get there, but it is wrong. And when we say stay a foot and a half away, there is a reason.
Never worked in an ER, but I did a lot of in-home care that requires sterile fields for wound/stoma/catheter care. Once trained a CNA of 25 years who COULD NOT maintain a sterile field for the life of her. She would get iodine everywhere, as well as insert the catheter with a contaminated hand. It was beyond frustrating knowing how something needs to be done and the person being unable to properly execute it. Adversely, I trained a young foreign girl who had zero medical experience and perfectly executed a sterile field and catheter insertion on her first try after watching me demonstrate. She did so well that I gave her a resounding recommendation when she decided to get her certification and work in a hospital only months later. It's really hard to find people that can so accurately and precisely do something just upon demonstration.
2nd year Nursing student, once sterile to sterile and aseptic to aseptic was told and with retdems I surpassed assisting that minor mastotomy case.
Kudos to those who knew their wrong beforehand and kudos to those who listened well.❤