The operating room is professional and solemn in the eyes of people, and the surgeon takes a scalpel and concentrates on the operation under the shadowless lamp. Many people are still very unfamiliar with the operating room, and there are some "embarrassing things" that are rumored to be operating rooms, such as doctors do not wear underwear for surgery, and patients are not allowed to wear clothes for surgery. Is this really the case in the operating room?
In the hospital operating room, don't doctors wear underwear?
During surgery, aseptic procedures are one of the most critical measures to ensure the patient's life. As small as a sponge to as large as a surgical towel, it needs to be sterile. Doctors also have to wash their hands strictly, and even put on disinfected clothes and gloves after bathing before performing surgery.
Most doctors don't go unscathed, but some people may not, which is hard to say. Because the doctor needs to concentrate during the operation, if the pants are accidentally dropped during the operation, in order to ensure the sterile state of the surgical area, it is not possible to use the pants by hand, and can only be held hard to complete the operation. Moreover, many surgeons will wash the blood on the operating table with liquid, and if the patient's surgical incision is contaminated, it must also be rinsed and disinfected. This is very likely to stain the doctor's clothes, these blood stains may also be a medical risk, if the underwear is soaked and thrown away is too bad, so some doctors simply do not wear underwear.
It is worth mentioning that although the doctors are from the class, academically rigorous and serious, there are still some doctors who believe that red underwear or red shoes can bring good luck to make the operation smooth, and wear red underwear during special operations, but this little "superstition" or hint is not hindered, as long as you can devote yourself to the operation, this is more important than anything.
In the hospital operating room, patients are not wearing clothes?
Some people think that they have to take off all their clothes for surgery, but they are not. For example, if you do an eye surgery or oral surgery, in general, there is no need to take off your clothes, just a sterile surgical cover on the face. Therefore, whether to wear clothes or not depends on the site of the operation, the operation and the patient's condition. If the surgical site is in the abdomen, pelvic cavity and other open surgery, the surgical site and area involved are relatively large, in order to ensure the sterility of the surgical site, it is necessary to remove the clothes and carry out comprehensive disinfection.
There are also some brain surgeries or cardiothoracic surgeries, because the need to monitor the patient's whole body, such as monitoring blood pressure, heart rate, electrocardiogram, etc., requires the patient to be completely naked in order to place monitoring instruments. Moreover, some surgeries require needles in multiple areas, or preoperative catheterization, central vein puncture and other operations, in order to facilitate surgery and operation, the patient may be allowed to remove clothing.
epilogue
When doing surgery, doctors are also to fight against the disease, so in order to achieve the best sterility and surgical effect, to prevent complications of postoperative infection, there may be some things that make patients feel "embarrassed", but compared with defeating the disease and protecting life, it is really nothing, and these things are also taken for granted in the eyes of doctors, and there is no need to make a fuss, doctors and patients understand each other, support each other, more important than anything!
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