New nurses are not allowed to circulate by themselves. This is an effective way to get a hindrance out of the room while the surgeon keeps working and the experienced nurse keeps charting.
Very much so and more recently than you would expect. You can gas sterilize pretty much anything so we occasionally use hardware store items. My favorite is a soup spoon from the cafeteria used to retrieve bladder tumor chips from the drainage bag. I have a partner who made a suprapubic catheter guide in his garage by taking a standard stainless dilator and bending it into a semicircle on a vice in his shop, then drilling a hole through the end for suture.
The camgina is the tight fitting fluid warmer that the DaVinci robotic camera lense slides into to keep it at body temperature when out of the abdomen so it won't fog on reentry.
Ever notice that a lot of orthopedic surgeons are woodworkers?
Yep, one of the orthopods i know runs his own bandsaw mill and another built his own forge to make knives. Talk about spending $140 to get a 50 cent tomato. Everybody needs a project I guess.
