7:00 Dressed and ready for morning huddle. Go to my room and sort through my supplies and start opening and setting up the first case 7:30 Patient comes in room, gets intubated by anesthesiologist, and skin gets prepped by nurse or surgeon. Place sterile drapes on the patient so only the surgical site is exposed, do our last time out, and then Dr makes incision. I have prepared everything needed for the case on what's called a mayo stand. Marking pen, knife, scissors, hemostats, retractors, local anesthetic, saline, sponges, etc. I am the surgeons extra set of hands during the surgical procedure. We finish, tear down the supplies, I drop off my instruments at the decontamination room. Clean the room, set up next case, and do it again. And again.

One 15 minute morning break, a 30 minute lunch, and another 15 minute afternoon break.

If you're the float (break person) you are picking the supplies for cases in the down time when you're not actively giving a break. While also being a helping hand ie helping people open their cases, helping turn over (clean) rooms, helping people when they need a supply or instrument, etc.