Shift to OT Stat

Please Note: This article is intended only for medicos, especially hospital owners, trauma surgeons, general surgeons and orthopedicians. Non-medicos please skip this post.

In seriously injured patients or whom the relatives consider serious, some surgeons have found taking the patient directly to Operation Theater (OT) after investigations that can only be done outside OT, such as x-rays, ultra-sound, has multiple advantages.

In OT full resuscitation equipment and drugs is at hand. Patient’s wounds, etc, can be stitched or explored better with proper instruments and illumination. Patient’s attendant are also satisfied that the doctors are taking prompt care, by taking to OT, even if inside the OT, the patient is just being examined, given first aid, parts being prepared (shaved), etc. They are also impressed by the long time taken for ‘operation’.

Most importantly, the treating doctors and staff are not bothered by the crowds of attendants surrounding the patient, questioning their every move, and repeated questioning by every new attendant arriving at the hospital. Being sterile closed area, the relatives are kept outside.

Any request to talk with the treating doctor can be politely turned down by the reception staff, by informing them, as the doctor is busy in operation, he cannot talk now, even if he is sitting and sipping coffee inside, while waiting for the anesthetist to arrive.

Addendum: This may not work with some of the hadoti’s netas (politicians). E.g. one MLA walked into the Major Emergency OT of Government Hospital with his followers wearing shoes, etc, to know the status of and direct the doctors to give proper care to one patient being operated for injuries suffered in road accident, who belonged from his legislative constituency.

(Based on true incident)
— ND
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