Open Doors

What happens behind the doors of the OR is often a mystery for most of the crew onboard.  True, for the older crew, we allow people to sign up to observe surgery for a half of day, but for our younger crew, that just isn’t possible.  What does happen behind that big sliding door? 

Dr Diane gives some suturing pointers

Once an outreach, we open that big sliding door & allow kids of all ages come & explore the OR & the rest of the hospital.  Usually, this happens before the ORs are sterile & there are no patients in the hospital.  This time, though, we had our hospital open house after the field service had started.  Since we couldn’t let the crew come into the ORs, we brought the ORs to them!

"Learn to Pass Gas Like a Professional"

Intubation is a team effort

A "helping hand" holding the airway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They make it look so easy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



The kids perform "surgery"

Doctor, I think she needs that!

Our recovery room took on a carnival-like feel, with an “Intubation Station: learn to pass gas like a professional”, a “Keep Them in Stitches: learn to suture” station & a crowd pleaser “Paging Dr____! You’re needed in the OR” station.- where the kids become real "surgeons" & had to remove a tumor using REAL OR instruments.  Down the hall, the wards had an IV station- where they practiced their IV skills, a relay race & the every popular- Be-a-Nurse-For-a-Day (learning the joys & struggles of taking care of some very unruly patients).  Even the actual patients had fun, watching some of the antics of the crew.

We are in our 6^th week of surgeries.  We are having some major equipment issues that we need a lot of prayer & technical help with.  Please pray for our equipment & those taking care of our equipment.  

Blessings