A Weekend Deployment (Narrative Essay)

It started off as a normal day in the operating room at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC). Scheduled surgeries would take place as they do day after day. The patients would arrive for their pre-operative consultation, sign the appropriate consent forms for the surgery that they would be

When the prep is finished the Dr. and I begin to drape the patient to create the sterile field that we will work on. When the draping is complete the surgery will begin and the Dr. will ask for the scalpel to make the first incision.

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LRMC Scheduled, Suite ISOS, Weekend Deployment, Team FAST, Soldiers KFOR, FAST Teams, Base Germany, operating nurse, patient sleep, scrub hands surgery, wash scrub hands, life threatening, wash scrub, surgery complete, drop zone, hands surgery, scrub hands, sterile field, final destination,