Hello everybody and welcome to another segment of Surgtech Academy. Before I
start I want to remind you that if you haven't already please subscribe to my
channel for the latest videos and notifications. So today we are going to
be talking about draping a patient in the supine or prone position. Draping is
one of those skills that can be pretty scary for new people because each
surgeon has their own method and ideas of what the right and wrong way is to
drape. I'm going to demonstrate some of the basic concepts knowing that
everybody does it slightly differently. So now I know that there are some
considerable positioning concepts for those patients that are in prone
position but it doesn't really affect draping which is why I think we can
cover both positions with one draping video. Now, first I want to start with a
few key concepts on draping. And these concepts are surgeon first, create a cuff,
never move down or up. Alright, I want to say that again. Surgeon first, create a
cuff, never move down or up. So first let's start with supine position. I have
my good friend Charlie the Mannequin acting as our patient and my good friend
Emma who's going to act as the surgeon. For demonstration purposes I am not
wearing a mask or my goggles. Alright, so first thing are the medium sheets or
half sheets. So, I'm gonna bring my medium sheet up I'm gonna pass half of it to
the surgeon and we're gonna drape the inferior patient. We're gonna extend, make
a cuff, and drop. The next medium sheet I'm gonna give to my surgeon we're gonna
unfold it, extend it, make a cuff and place it superiorly. Now, I like to do
this first because it covers most of the patient and helps cut down on
contamination. Next are the towels. We want to make sure that we've already
prepared the towels ahead of time if we bring all four up at the same time. So my
surgeon is gonna grab the first towel and place it on their side. Next, we're
gonna go superiorly or the top side,
Inferiorly or the bottom side, and then the last side is my side. Now, I always
made sure that I was at least 12 to 18 inches away from the field even though
I'm protected by a drape I still don't want to risk contamination. So we have a
pretty good squaring off right there. our last drape is the laparotomy drape.
Now the great thing about drape manufacturers is they tell us exactly
how to put this drape on the patient. So we can see our little man here telling
us which way it goes. So I'm gonna place this right at the incision site, we're
gonna unfold it, the surgeon is gonna grab one side,I'm going to grab the
other, we're gonna cuff our hands, and extend. Good. We're going to completely
unfold the drape, cuff our hands again, and extend. There we go. Our surgeon is
going to grab the white paper for us and there we have it.
A complete and perfect patient draping for supine or prone position. So this is
Mike from Surgtech Academy wishing you a great day in surgery and reminding
you to be a superstar in your O.R.