How do you dress in the operating room?

Bosaburo, M.D., a small physician in a large hospital, goes into the operating room and changes into a set of scrubs, or scrubs, as some anesthesiologists jokingly refer to them, "loose, comfortable pajamas". If you think about it, it is true that scrubs are designed to be easy to put on (in some hospitals, scrubs are not divided into front and back, so you can wear either side) and easy to wash and replace. In fact, scrubs are a favorite of doctors and nurses in other departments as well. If you like to watch American TV shows, the image of doctors in Grey's Anatomy in navy blue with a white coat on the outside still makes me quite envious. The coats on doctors are white, which is considered a symbol of cleanliness and neatness. However, I have never seen a white surgical gown on the inside. There is a saying that white is a strong contrast to the color of blood, and that it creates an unpleasant feeling, not to mention wearing it. Nowadays, most of the colors of surgical gowns are navy blue or green. These colors are less likely to cause visual fatigue and staining with blood is not as contrasting. Today's surgeries are increasingly minimally invasive, requiring clean fields and low blood loss. But in the early 1900s, the measure of a surgeon's success was, surprisingly, whether or not his or her clothes were soaked with enough blood and fluid. In other words, a wet suit often meant a major surgery. The scrubs have always maintained their own uniquely simple style. Short-sleeved V-neck tops and loose, easy-to-unfold pants are easy to wash and wear, breathable and comfortable to the touch. In the brush hand clothing outside, and then wear a layer of one-piece surgical gown, which is the standard image of the surgeon on the stage. These clothes are mostly cotton, accidentally stained with blood or liquid, there are two feelings: heavy, wet. Heavy is naturally absorbent, and wet is permeable. I once read on Twitter that a surgeon wrote, "There is another school of thought in the surgical world: to operate in just scrubs and pants, no underwear. I have a mental block against this practice. When I was an intern, I saw a professor open the knife when the surgical pants fell loose on the ground, and he could not carry, begged the old nurse for help, was complimented on his white buttocks". This is very much like a paragraph of the microblogging, but also is not nonsense. After all, into the operating room doctors and nurses, most of them are close to the outside of underwear, wearing a brush hand clothing. Sometimes afraid of cold feet, will wear a pair of socks. Beyond that, there is no body. The American Medical Association has reported that scrubs, which are considered clean, have the same chance of being a source of bacterial transmission as white coats. In other words, it's better to wear a hand-brushing gown than not to wear one at all. Not wearing hand brushing gowns, on the other hand, makes the operating room the weirdest place on earth, and will also allow patients to feast their eyes on the doctor's body, and in the process, to comment on it. It doesn't matter if the scrubs and gowns get soaked, but if the underwear gets soaked, there will be some psychological obstacles. Sometimes, if you are not careful, the water or blood on the operating table will directly soak you from the waist down. Not long ago, the Internet has a "bottle doctor" photo, said a young urologist in Wuhan, operation of percutaneous renal water from the water gun often soaked through the abdomen below the surgical coat. Because it was too late to change, and finally got a cold, only to write medical records while taking a bottle. Whether his cold is due to wet clothes caused by the leave aside, with the "sewer" deal with the urologist, it is easy to "wet". Whether it is prostate electrocision, or percutaneous nephrolithotomy, all need a lot of liquid flushing. If the sheet material is not in place, often turn the operating room into a bath, they are also full of water. Of course, some places are starting to wear non-woven surgical gowns. These gowns are permeable to air and water vapor, but repel liquids, which avoids a lot of embarrassment for the surgeon. In addition, there are simple plastic spreading towels that simultaneously deflect and collect fluids without running on themselves.