First surgery today. We have two operating rooms, one with an single overhead light (doesn't make much difference; we all have headlights—some from Costco or REI, others medical grade and several hundred dollars; you get what you pay for), two operating tables and working air conditioning. The other room has no overhead light, no air conditioner, and three operating tables. That's the room I'm in, center table with patient receiving spinal anesthesia.
Other missions have also used a single OR for two simultaneous operations (which makes it easier to share personnel and equipment) but this will be the first hat trick OR.
Our “dress code” may raise eyebrows but the sterile integrity of the OR hasn't been breached tho the personnel (in this case an anesthesiologist) may not be as protected against spills and falling objects.
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