Re: Fun and Games in the circ room
From: Meenan, Anna (annam@uic.edu)
Sat Feb 17 08:04:29 2007
Gee, I'm afraid someone might require that we stick little sterile
labels on the swabs after we remove them from the package.
Anna Meenan, MD
>Is there a reason not to use betadine that comes in the prelabeled
>packages with either one or three sticks to a packet?
>
>That's what we have done for years and it works just fine.
>
>But I agree, all the above is lunacy.
>
>Glen
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Kevin
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>Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:40 PM
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>Subject: Re: Fun and Games in the circ room
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>I would like to get off the email list. Can you assist me with that?
>>----- 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 11:34 PM
>Subject: Fun and Games in the circ room
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>> 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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