Theatres

All junior doctors are encouraged to attend both elective and trauma theatre sessions. The major part of teaching in orthopaedics takes place in the clinics and the operating theatre. It is essential that you attend these as much as possible to learn orthopaedics.

If you and your colleagues help each other out and are efficient, there should be time for these activities. Ask if you can scrub & get hands-on! (remember to send a DOPS for this too!)

- trauma theatre (theatre 8)

- theatre 5 and 6 (mixture of STL lists and elective lists)

Booking cases for CEPOD

Emergency surgery (mostly out of hours) may need to be added to CEPOD. The decision to take a patient for emergency surgery is made by the take consultant and on-call SpR. (These cases should be discussed with the CEPOD anaesthetists, CEPOD booking form completed, and patient details written on the theatre white board)

Trauma theatre:

The morning operations are done by a different ‘specialist’ consultant each day. The afternoon operations are done by the consultant on take that week. Traditionally patients became the responsibility of the consultant that operated on them, however, with the new ward-based system this is less important.