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Once the operation is ready to
start, you will be transferred into the OT
proper
The first thing you will notice is that the operating room is cold. Low
temperatures are maintained in these operating
rooms because cold temperatures decrease
bacteria growth and therefore reduce infections.
You will also meet the other members of the
surgical team. In the operating room will be
your surgeon, assistant surgeons, the
anaesthetist, the "scout" nurse, and a "scrub
nurse".
You will be asked to move over to the operating
room table and remain flat on your back. This is
an unusual position, which you may find
temporarily uncomfortable. The bed is narrow,
and you will be asked to rest your arms out to
the side on arm boards. Monitoring devices will
be placed by the anaesthetic staff and will
include a blood pressure cuff on your arm, ECG
stickers across your chest, and an oxygen
monitoring clip which is place on a finger. You
may be asked to breathe in oxygen through a
mask.
The anaesthetist will tell you when he or she
starts to inject a hypnotic medicine into your
intravenous line that will make you fall asleep.
You will not remember anything after that.
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