OR Setup CheckList

General Notes

• Few things look worse than looking like a noob and standing there in the back when everyone is running around getting ready for the case

• Be as helpful as possible without getting in the way

• Pay attention to specific attending preferences

• Pay attention to glove sizes

• Play nice with the nurses and scrub techs

Peripherals

• Walk in

• Introduce yourself to nurses and scrub techs

• Ask if any help needed

• Write names and glove sizes on board

• Pull up imaging

• Get helmets and batteries if needed

• Open gloves if allowed

OR Setup

• Check correct bed (AMSCO, fracture, Jackson flat)

• Check that bed works

• Check bed position (flat, broken down, beach-chair)

• Strap for patient

• SCD ready

• Leg or arm holder under / near the bed

• Table clamps for leg or arm holders on correct side of bed

• Lights in position (arms 180 degrees from each other)

• C-arm from correct side (if needed)

• Towers on correct side

• Prep materials (alcohol? / scrub brush? / shaver? / wet prep? / gloves for prep)

• IV pole that goes up and down (or whatever is used for prepping)

• Kling gauze or kerlix (if needed)

• Bone foam (if needed)

• Tourniquet (if needed)

• Pad under the bed with suction (if arthroscopy)

• Foot pedal plugged in and on correct side of bed  (if arthroscopy and foot control)

• Step stool  (if needed)

• Post-op dressing - roll out a splint (if needed)

Patient Setup

• Strap on

• Socks off operative side

• SCDs on

• Shave (if needed)

• Contralateral leg taped down

• SCD cord out of the way of the C-arm

• Foley up at head (if foley)

• Prep

Personal

• Put on shoe covers

• Put on eye protection

• Pre-scrub