A day at the operating theatre

Had fun on last Thursday morning at the operating theatre at my faculty.

Changing session at the changing room was full with laughters as we didn't have enough S-sized scrubs of the same colour. So i ended up wearing a blue top and a green bottom :P S-sized scrub pants are still very big sized and we had to help each other pull the waist strings to really tighten it up to prevent the pants from slipping down our hip, which could be a very hilarious disaster! :D

The OT is very very cold :( I guess the patient on the operating table must feel even colder as they are nude with only a cotton blanket & an air-filled "balloon" insulator on their body. At first i thought the air-filled blanket is filled with warm air. I tried to feel it, it's not warm at all. So we just shiver in the OT while craning our necks to watch the surgeons operate. When it gets crowded beside the operating table, the screen monitor will be our "target" for watching the operating field.

Somehow i like being in the OT as stuffs going on inside there is so much different from what we used to have elsewhere. Hmm... could be first-timer's feelings... It's fun watching how the patient is put to sleep under general anaesthetics, and how creamy propofol is :D Hmm... if i'm a guy, i would consider to become a cool oral maxillofacial surgeon :P

Watched surgical removal of a unicystic ameloblastoma & recountouring of orbital rim. Surprisingly it didn't feel that eerie when the surgeons peeled the patient's skin off his forehead. Didn't have enough time to stay longer to watch the bone grafting procedure (iliac spine to orbital rim) :( Hope to have more exposure at the major OT in future.

As an avid Grey's Anatomy fan, i felt very excited of my first GA OT experience, and i could say that the feeling of watching it on tv and being there is quite different :P