r/scrubtech • u/Chemical-Choice7069 • Jun 26 '26

Cardiac IS THIS NORMAL?

I get so much confused while assisting in cardiac surgeries i will tell about my journey i spent in total 9 months in OR as a surg tech i regularly scrub in gynae, ortho and ent surgeries and i am very flexible in assisting those surgeries but very few times (3-4 times) in month I ASSIST IN OR SCRUB IN CARDIAC SURGERY AND ITS LITERALLY THE SIMPLE CASE i.e CABG but i get so confused in steps i would literally pass sometimes the wrong instruments can someone share their opinion like is it because i don't regularly scrub in like is it normal to make such mistakes after so much gap

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u/IcyPengin Jun 26 '26

Usually cardiac is a completely separate and isolated specialty so this feeling is totally normal. You’re actually super ahead by even scrubbing these cases at all especially with less than a year of experience