How are your OCD organizational skills?

[jumpingforjoy]

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How neat are you when arranging and labeling your syringes of medications? To me, I would find this quite soothing...with colored labels of course. I also love how opthamologic lens for refraction are arranged neated in its preforated slots. Almost everything else in medicine is so messy.

 

[Bertelman]

Compulsive about the label. Only one label segment per syringe, trimmed at the line, applied longitudinally just below the numbers. When the syringe is on the cart I can easily read the entire label, and I confirm the drug as I look at how many cc's to push.

As for arranging, I generally throw the first 5 syringes on my machine in the order they will be pushed, to the right of the intubation supplies. Everything else is just somewhere in the cart or drawer.

 

[pgg]

applied longitudinally just below the numbers

😱

I started off doing that, but cart gnomes or somebody would flip my syringes over and I couldn't tell at a glance where the drug I wanted was. I'm a circumferential sticky labeler now.

 

[jwk]

How neat are you when arranging and labeling your syringes of medications? To me, I would find this quite soothing...with colored labels of course. I also love how opthamologic lens for refraction are arranged neated in its preforated slots. Almost everything else in medicine is so messy.

Don't forget to actually read the labels. Standardized label colors help, and of course you should be organized. There's nothing I hate worse than letting someone out for a break and looking at their mess, or having someone mess up my stuff between cases. BUT - there are countless occurrences where people are incredibly OCD about their setup and the way they label everything, and the way they point or group their syringes, or the order, or whatever - and then they still give the wrong drug. READ THE LABEL!

 

[dhb]

How neat are you when arranging and labeling your syringes of medications?

I could not care less, i rarely have more than 3 full syringes at one time (generally induction) with prop (no label), sufenta (w sticker from packaging) and nmb (sticker vs marker writing).
More or less everything else is draw and inject.

 

[Bertelman]

😱

I started off doing that, but cart gnomes or somebody would flip my syringes over and I couldn't tell at a glance where the drug I wanted was. I'm a circumferential sticky labeler now.

I hear ya, but I always do a final
confirm as I latch onto the luer lock, and the only way I can consistently read it then is to go down the barrel.

Plus sometimes I think I just like doing **** differently. If I come back from a break and I see something labeled circumferentially, it's probably getting tossed.

 

[Bertelman]

...of course if you had given me that break, I would totally keep it. 😉

I'd just move the label.

 

[urge]

How neat are you when arranging and labeling your syringes of medications? To me, I would find this quite soothing...with colored labels of course. I also love how opthamologic lens for refraction are arranged neated in its preforated slots. Almost everything else in medicine is so messy.

Has somebody ever suggested you might be crazy?

 

[periopdoc]

Circumferential. Then I don't have to get the syringe perfectly lined up for each injection, just hook it up, read the label, and give approximately however many cc's of med I want to give.

My cart is neat during the case, but gets messy during induction as I just throw all the used stuff in a pile and sort it out after induction.

I have very few syringes pre-drawn except for cardiac type cases. Just draw it and give it and keep the empties lined up on my cart.

Not particularly OCD, but it drives me up a wall when the anesthesia cart/ machine is a mess.

- pod

 

[MTGas2B]

I'll put in my vote for label down the length of the syringe. I like to always take that second look at the label and the graduations on the syringe so I know what I'm giving and how much.

As far as OCD things. If I'm doing a case solo I grab an extra towel and use it for spot to place for my dirty/used stuff during a case. Leftover induction stuff, neo, ephedrine, used face mask with syringe, etc.

 

[periopdoc]

- pod

 

[MTGas2B]

I was referring to a blue, or green OR towel. Not my beach towel


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[partydoc]

I was referring to a blue, or green OR towel. Not my beach towel


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Don't worry pod, I got you. 42.

 

[jumpingforjoy]

Has somebody ever suggested you might be crazy?

Oh totally. Not only am I a neat freak, I also have merticulous handwriting. Serial killer tendencies anyone?