Surgical Assistant Behavior

Surgical Assistant Behavior

An Assistant is not the first and the main personage during the surgical process which is clearly understood by him himself . Nobody will expect from him making important independent decisions or making himself responsible for the process . Thus it might occur that an assistant will behave like an irresponsible player of the process and will not take any initiative . A surgeon himself should give all the possible assistance to his assistant remembering his experience when he was an assistant himself

An assistant should remember that although he is

only assistant , his wrong actions might cause problems which consequences will be hard to correct . He should pay attention to every single word said by a surgeon and in case he does not understand anything he should clarify what was meant but do it in such way in order not to disturb a surgeon . Being an assistant does not relieve him from the responsibility for his actions An assistant is not a trainee , not a student or an exterior observer any more but an essential participant of the surgical process . He does not only listens to what a surgeon tells him to do but also acts on his own with competence and of course is responsible for every single action he initiated

It must always be clearly stated what function during the surgical process an assistant fulfils as well as an assistant should understand all these functions . Of course during his very first assisting he must be even more still a trainee and listener and thus his scope of responsibility is quite limited . But later on with every further surgery an assistant should be given more freedom accompanied by a growing responsibility , of course

If a surgeon sees that an assistant fulfils all the tasks correctly and confidently giving prove to every single action made he (a surgeon might allow his assistant to take a more active part during a surgical process . If any mistake occur the two should discuss it after the process so that both are sure that such a mistake will not happen again They should decide together how much the activity of an assistant will expand with every conducted process...