“Based on the OT schedule for a given day, the stores supervisor prepared at least two trays of materials for each surgery—an anaesthesia material tray and a surgical material tray—and handed them over to the OT nurse supervisor. In certain cases, a third tray was prepared such as a perfusionist’s tray (cardiothoracic surgery) and a fourth tray containing materials for post-operative recovery rooms. Each tray was custom made for each surgery and each surgeon. Items were taken out of these trays during the surgery, and the unused items in their respective trays were returned to the OT stores after surgery. The issue of materials and their returns were recorded in specific registers. The difference between the issue of materials and their returns was assumed to be consumed.”
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Medical students and foundation doctors are notorious for not knowing how to behave in the operating theatre. This is almost invariably because nobody ever bothers to tell you how it all works, what to expect and what to do with yourself; instead, they just expect you to somehow instinctively intuit the rules governing what is a very complex working environment. This means most students and junior doctors get very little out of their often limited theatre exposure, and as a result are deeply uninspired by the whole surgical thing, which I find really sad.
To rescue you from potential awkwardness and embarrassment, I’ve put together a list of simple things I wish I had known when I was a student. Most of these are things that I got shouted at for not doing/not knowing and therefore learned about the hard way, my aim is to save you from having to go through this. It’s very easy to feel like little more than an inconvenience in theatre, but the informative tips below will hopefully help you learn lots, and you might even enjoy yourself!