The 'embarrassment' of the operating room: Do the doctor do not wear underwear during surgery? Reveal the real situation for you

In some operations, the whole person was not good when he heard that he was going to take off, and he felt that he was exposed to outsiders, and it felt particularly embarrassing.

There is also a saying that when doctors do surgery, they do n’t wear underwear, why? Do you know which surgery requires patients to take off?

First, doctors do not wear underwear for surgery, why?

Someone said that the surgeon had surgery before, and generally did not wear underwear. Is this true? In order to ensure the smooth progress of the operation, doctors generally ensure that the operating room is in a sterile state.

Therefore, before surgery, you will take off your clothes, put on surgical clothes, wear masks, hats, etc., and then perform sterilization and disinfection before surgery. Why don't you advocate that doctors wear underwear during surgery?

1. Save money

Some diseases will be contagious. In order to avoid being infected, and the cleaning is more troublesome, it may be thrown away. If you don't wear underwear, it will be regarded as indirect money.

2. Avoid wet body

Doctors do not wear underwear, or they may be worried about wet body. There may be a lot of bleeding during the operation to avoid flowing from the clothes to the underwear on the underwear.

2. Why do some surgery require patients to be naked?

In addition to some surgery doctors do not wear underwear, some surgery requires patients to perform naked. So why do some surgery need to be naked? Chen Jian, a nurse of the operating room of Beijing Tsinghua Chang Geng Hospital, explained that the nakedness of patient surgery is mainly related to the following three reasons.

1. The surgery should be in a state of strict sterile

There may be germs on the clothes, which may cause incision infection. Therefore, patients are generally required to take off their clothes, and then cover their bodies with sterile cloth for surgery.

2. Convenient for surgical procedures

Anesthesia administration, antibiotics, blood transfusion and other steps during surgery may need to be used to take off clothes to observe the operation process.

3. Emergency can find invisible wounds in time

Patients who admitted to the hospital for emergency treatment can take off their clothes medical staff can see the existence of invisible wounds, which is more convenient for treatment.

Third, what circumstances need to "take off" clothes?

Not all surgery, patients need to take off all their clothes. Do you need to take off your clothes when you know what circumstances do you need to take off your clothes?

Large -scale surgery such as cancer tumors, knee replacement surgery, gynecological surgery, urology surgery, etc. Doctors need to observe the physical condition of the patient at any time, so they generally need to take off all clothes.

However, there are some surgery, only half -naked, such as abdominal surgery, ankle joint, knee joint surgery, upper body surgery , etc. Generally, you only need to be semi -naked, and you don't need to take off all the clothes.

Some surgeons do not wear underwear, in fact, mainly to save money, avoid wet body, etc. Of course, some doctors will wear underwear. In order to ensure a sterile state, easy to perform surgery, and discover invisible wounds, patients will require patients to perform surgery, such as cancer and gynecological surgery.

References:

[1] I heard that doctors do not wear underwear for surgery? The reason subverts your cognition. Family doctor online .2021-03-30

[2] Doctors do not wear underwear ... "Secrets" in the hospital, make it clear at a time! .

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