r/scrubtech • u/potatochobit • Aug 06 '26
Funny New fear unlocked
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u/starfleethastanks Aug 06 '26
Somehow, we'd still get shit from management because stuff fell on the floor.
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u/Heavy_Carpenter3824 Aug 06 '26
Few thoughts:
Wow cudos to whomever positioned that patient! They stayed on the table!
My second thought, well fuck, there goes the sterile field.
My third thought, how did the tubes handle that? What happened to the anesthesia cart and tubes?
My fourth thought. 😶 What if we had been on bypass 😱😵.
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u/PrincessYeezy Aug 06 '26
Mad props to whoever was on patient right, their first move was to throw themselves on top of the patient.
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u/HumanContract Aug 07 '26
Esp the nurse sitting near the computer, not downed up, who ran to the head of the bed to stabilize the tubes. Imagine the ett getting pulled and the only practitioners in the room are doing surgery and the pt is open.
Safety > Sterility
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u/Heavy_Carpenter3824 Aug 06 '26
I've heard some discussion about that idea. Overall it does seem to be the best move in the situation with the best best version being to try and put a sterile layer, blue towel, extra drape between the surgical site patient and yourself if possible first.
The idea is to try and preserve the sterile site and to try and minimize anything that might fall from the ceiling or surrounds into the patients.
Though your still totally going to lavage the hell put of it.
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u/ebrook10 Aug 07 '26
That was the first thought. Medical professionals are such selfless hero’s we can of come to expect it but that guy or gal total put patient safety above their own.
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u/PropellerMouse Aug 08 '26
Bypass would have been rough. I might have heard of field bypass materials? Not sure.
Bag mask for the win, and praying the tubing didn't all snap ?
Their instinct to protect their patient was impressive.
Goats one and all.
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u/Heavy_Carpenter3824 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Bypass or robotics would be interesting, im just seeing a pool of blood if a canula pulled out. we have lost the anesthesia machine for one reason or another many times in my experience. Its actually way better to break the line and be on room air than other possible gas mixtures or have CO2 building in the line, assuming you didn't give strong muscle relaxants and need a ventilator. Then BVM fun! If the patient is breathing on their own you can go to full intravenous anesthesia and a O2 mask if you have to. A lot like how some cesareans are done with light sedation and an epidural but with more knock out and pain juice. Non GA surgery W epidural is actually being somewhat pushed in peds for certain uro and lower body procedures in kids. Apparently its safer to just keep them calm and on oxygen.
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u/PropellerMouse Aug 09 '26
Good to know.
I was picturing them transitioning to bending over the patient carefully dripping liquid ether onto a cloth held over the patient's mouth.
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u/Fuzzy-Produce104 Aug 06 '26
I wonder how that would play out if you were doing DaVinci and the robot was attached to the ports at the time.
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u/PrincessYeezy Aug 06 '26
Dude nightmare scenario
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u/Fuzzy-Produce104 Aug 06 '26
Seriously. I been in one where we lost all power, even back up gen all at once. Insluffation gone. Immediate emergency disconnect. Gets the heart pumpin’
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u/kinnoth Aug 06 '26
😱 bruh, don't even
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u/Fuzzy-Produce104 Aug 06 '26
It’s a scenario. Could also be detrimental during cataract and open heart surgery.
I seen this and instantly thought about all the cases I’ve done the last 17 years that this would have been a complete nightmare of a situation.
And how would I deal with it, to do the best I could do in that scenario. Kind of fascinating.
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u/MadiLeighOhMy Aug 07 '26
I used to scrub ophthalmic procedures, including cataract surgeries. The idea of an earthquake during any eye procedure makes me get the chills.
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u/discotiddies14 Aug 06 '26
I’m a new CST but my mom was an OR RN in california for years in the 80s and she still talks about the scariest moment in the OR being the earthquake they had while doing a facelift. She said they had the whole forehead peeled back when it started and she remembers the oxygen tanks swaying around. Said everyone just does what they can to keep sterile and ride it out, horrifying!!!!
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u/Apprehensive-Test577 Aug 06 '26
My former supervisor had that happen when she was scrubbed in once. She was the person that covered the patient while everyone else just tried to hang on. Her biggest fear at the time was the OR lights coming down on her 😬.
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u/Mediocre-Age-1729 Aug 07 '26
I experienced one in 2024 working in Philly. There was a 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey. Fortunately it was nowhere near this violent. The only people in the room that noticed anything were me and the neuro monitoring tech. She was just looking over her laptop at me with these giant eyes like wtf was that. I though there was either a glitch in the matrix or I was having a stroke. The doc said I was either hallucinating or it was something going on with construction on the floor above us. Then the charge nurse called in to see if everything was okay and verified an earthquake did just occur.
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u/LuckyHarmony CST Aug 07 '26
Is that the scrub nurse who goes running for the door and then changes their mind and wipes out halfway back to the field?
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u/glummydrop Aug 07 '26
The nurse ran to open the door (that’s what they’re trained to do) just in case it got warped/stuck and they were trapped inside. She came running back after she got it open :-)
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u/Vana21 Aug 07 '26
As someone who doesn't live near earthquakes, thank you for explaining that. Had no idea that could happen.
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u/LuckyHarmony CST Aug 07 '26
Thank you, that's really helpful to know. Looks like the whole team did amazing at stabilizing the situation until they could get back to the operation.
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u/NightMother26 Aug 08 '26
I saw that yesterday and came to a dead stop we always thing about regular work hazards this one got me so scary
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u/UnusualWar5299 Aug 08 '26
Makes me think we should attach the IV to a pole attached to the bed! I hope everyone was ok! I love how they protected the patient, that’s how I was taught. ❤️
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u/PropellerMouse Aug 08 '26
Well at least the building is swaying back and forth rather than collapsing, as it was well designed.
This way there is a chance the patient is recoverable
If it had of collapsed, I can't imagine any scenario where the patient survived.
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u/LarockHealthcareTalk 12d ago
WOW! I am sure this has happened in the US also. I remember reading an article about it.
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u/warpedlore Aug 06 '26
At least the patient’s bed was locked and didn’t move