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Fun and Games in the circ roomFrom: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)Fri Feb 16 21:32:44 2007
Those of you who do circs, are you running into this at your hospital? A few weeks ago, we got a memo that fluids could not be poured onto a sterile field until they were positively identified by the surgeon. So we had a lot of giggles positively identifying the soap and water as they were poured into the two compartments of the little pan for scrubbing up the little weewee. Today I went to do my circs and the tech said that she now has to LABEL the compartments of the pan with a sterile pen and sterile labels. She has to charge out a packet containing the pen and labels, open it, put on sterile gloves, stick the labels on the edge of the pan, and try to write the words "soap" and "water" without contaminating the rest of the sterile field. Then she pours the soap and water into the pan while I watch her. On top of that, they are required to THROW THE PENS AWAY and cannot use them anywhere else on the unit, even though they do not come into contact with any body fluids. The only other fluids in the entire room are tiny vials of lidocaine and little unit dose cups of sterile sugar water to dip the pacifiers in. Even if someone poured the wrong fluids into the bowls, it would make no difference really. Is this ridiculous or what?
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