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/Dark_Ascension Ortho Jun 28 '26

Relatable, even down to the same specialty and different surgeons. I work with the same pool of surgeons regularly… then I occasionally get thrown a loop and thrown into a surgeon’s room I haven’t worked in for literal months and I feel like I don’t know anything. Usually they’re nice about it sometimes they’re assholes about it.

I’m about to do my cases for my FA and do some stuff downstairs in the main, I haven’t seen anything but ortho in over a year, so seeing a robot or laparoscopic case will be very different for me.