I work in surgery as an x-ray tech. Vascular surgery and cardiac to be exact. There are a total of 8-12 people involved in our cases. X-ray, crna, attending, residents, fellows, research team, reps of the devices, circulating nurse, scrub tech, additional scrub/nurse. The anesthesia team gets breaks since they monitor the patients status non stop. The physicians do not get breaks if alone but some work as a two doc system. They don't leave the resident alone with the fellows. It's a teaching hospital. I work in 4-6 hour surgical cases daily in a level 3 trauma center. We have 46 OR rooms crazy right?
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I work in surgery as an x-ray tech. Vascular surgery and cardiac to be exact. There are a total of 8-12 people involved in our cases. X-ray, crna, attending, residents, fellows, research team, reps of the devices, circulating nurse, scrub tech, additional scrub/nurse. The anesthesia team gets breaks since they monitor the patients status non stop. The physicians do not get breaks if alone but some work as a two doc system. They don't leave the resident alone with the fellows. It's a teaching hospital. I work in 4-6 hour surgical cases daily in a level 3 trauma center. We have 46 OR rooms crazy right?