Preparing for Surgery

By: Dalin C.

When preparing for a surgery, there are many different tasks that have to be performed. Surgeons have to put on clean scrubs, clean gloves, a new face mask, and most importantly wash their hands. They do many small tasks like this, but how come they do not "warm-up" before surgery? For example, go through the hand motions or a virtual warm-up. A warm-up could help the surgeons make fewer mistakes and keep their hand motions smooth.

A small experiment was done with surgeons to see if a warm-up session helped and they found that, "adding a 15-20 minute warm-up led to a 33% reduction in errors on a series of exercises that simulated surgical skills." An athlete and a dancer performs warm-ups to perfect their performance so surgeons should too. A small research experiment have proved that this could help. If there are less errors in the surgery rooms, then more lives could be saved and it could make safer surgeries. Nothing bad could come from surgeons doing a warm-up session before a surgery. It will only help the surgeons, just like it helps athletes before a game.

Works Cited
Neale, Todd. "A Brief Preop Warm-Up May Improve Surgical Skills." MedPage Today. MedPage Today. 3 Feb. 2009. Web. 25 Oct. 2015.