For most people, the operating room is a more "taboo" place.
We often see such a bridge section in film and television dramas---- a patient is pushed into the operating room for surgery, and the family follows the car to the operating room door and does not let in, so they have to wait anxiously outside the operating room.
As a result, many people are often more curious about the situation in the operating room, and the surgical process often adds a little "mystery".
Most people do not understand enough about the important things to be aware of during surgery, so they often have some doubts or misunderstandings about surgical procedures or surgical requirements.
First, during the operation, does the patient have to "strip naked"?
Not all surgeries require stripping and need to be analyzed in the light of a specific situation. Whether to take off completely, whether to take off or semi-detach, in fact, depends on what kind of surgery is done.
For example, joint surgery, generally only need to take off the pants; such as oral surgery, there is no need to take off clothes...
In fact, the requirement to wear no clothes is mainly to facilitate surgical operations and to make it easier to use body monitoring instruments.
If during general anesthesia surgery, the procedure takes a long time, then the patient needs to use a catheter, in which case it is true that underwear is not needed and should not be worn.
Usually, gynecological surgery, tumor removal surgery, and replacement surgery, etc., these need to be during the operation, the patient needs to remove their clothes.
Second, why should the doctor wear green clothes during the operation?
Whenever a doctor is mentioned, it is often associated with the classic image of wearing a white coat, white can stabilize emotions, soothe anxiety, and white can better understand the neat state of clothes, which is more convenient for knowing the disinfection and cleaning effect.
However, during the operation, the doctor needs to wear a green surgical gown instead, mainly in order to contrast with the red blood, thereby relieving visual fatigue and improving surgical safety.
When the doctor is performing surgery, due to the need to maintain a high degree of attention, the energy is focused on the blood-red tissues and organs, in order to alleviate the "rear image visual effect" caused by green troubles, the use of light blue or green surgical gowns can effectively alleviate eye fatigue.
Third, why do I need to measure my weight before surgery?
Measuring body weight is a very important routine and basic test before anesthesia surgery.
The reason why weight measurement is necessary before surgery is, on the one hand, to make a preliminary assessment of the patient's health status in combination with height and weight data.
On the other hand, it is because the use of anesthetics needs to be precisely controlled according to the weight situation. Therefore, for the necessity of preoperative weight measurement, we must pay sufficient attention to it, and we must not make up weight data at will.
Fourth, why do I need to keep an empty stomach before surgery?
General anesthesia surgery is usually explicitly required to remain fasting.
This is mainly because after entering the anesthesia state, if the stomach and intestines remain full, it is possible that the vomit will be sucked into the trachea and lungs due to nausea and vomiting problems, which will be very dangerous.
Fifth, why do I need to fast food and water for 6 hours after surgery?
The reason for this requirement is that within 6 hours after the operation, the anesthesia metabolism is not completely complete, and the human body is likely to be in a state of unconsciousness.
At this time, if there is a behavior of getting up, drinking water or eating, it is easy to cause dizziness, headache, choking water, and choking problems.
Sixth, why do you need the signature of the patient's family before the operation?
No matter what kind of surgery, the doctor will ask the patient and the family to sign before the operation, and at this time some people will question---- is it to avoid unexpected surprises in the surgical process, and the doctor can avoid taking responsibility?
In fact, regardless of whether a signature is required or not, medical staff are responsible for any mistakes in the surgical process.
The signature is mainly to let the patient or family understand in advance what kind of process the operation is, what problems the operation may cause, and some surgeries may also need to use some drugs that are not reimbursed or not fully reported.