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Re: Fun and Games in the circ room From: Gerald P.Rodriguez (geraldpr@cybermesa.com) Sat Feb 17 07:45:22 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Meenan, Anna: "Re: Fun and Games in the circ room" Previous message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: OFF TOPIC: Video for my wife" Maybe in reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Fun and Games in the circ room" Next in thread: Meenan, Anna: "Re: Fun and Games in the circ room" Yet another case where the lunatics run the asylum. Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG Santa Fe >----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna Meenan, MD" <annam@uic.edu> To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 9:33 PM Subject: Fun and Games in the circ room > 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? > Next message: Meenan, Anna: "Re: Fun and Games in the circ room" Previous message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: OFF TOPIC: Video for my wife" Maybe in reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Fun and Games in the circ room" Next in thread: Meenan, Anna: "Re: Fun and Games in the circ room"

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