underwear during surgery?

I spoke to the head of nursing at the hospital. And wearing underwear isn't a technical problem unless it is made from some synthetics. Which can cause sparks when moving or sliding the patient. Most hospitals are too lazy and just say "take it all off". So while it is technically ok it is only OK if your hospital lets you. And don't think it's ok because I have a gown on. Depending on where you go that gown will be off as soon as you are out of it enough to not resist.

Sorry for typing problem but tablet drops letters. A young cna hired with very little schooling was going to try to bathe him. He was very capable and I was there. He deserves to have privacy and allowed modesty. So do I. We both would prefer if we have to strip down to have same gender care. Very embarrassing to have females for TURP. And there were plenty of male nurses available. They were assigned to females. We are both going to let our wishes known and written down before consenting to anything more. If you want to show it all go ahead. Your right. So let us feel free to have our values met.

Look at some of the prep videos and you will see you are wrong. You are stripped of all dignity.

Guest, a lot of the problem comes from ignorance on the part of the general public as until you’ve had the experience of going to the hospital for testing or being admitted for something the public really has no clue as to what happens to people behind those walls.

For many, once they find out, they want nothing to do with the healthcare system anymore.

Guest may I ask, did your husband tell the CNA that he would bathe himself with your help if needed? If so, she should have said fine I’ll leave you to your privacy & left while he bathed himself.

Yes you are correct there are some individuals that don’t mind if the opposite sex sees then naked and for those people that’s fine.

What isn’t fine is the medical community’s refusal to acknowledge and respect the wishes of those people who for whatever their reason may be wish to protect their dignity.

To help protect your dignity, you can tell your primary doctor that whenever he/she needs to set up any gender specific type of test that only same gender care can be used to perform the test. Some hospitals saw the need for an equal balance of male & female caregivers on staff to handle everyone’s needs and hired the people they needed. Not many but there are some.

If your primary doctor won’t help you then you find a facility that will offer you same gender care then tell the doctor’s office to setup the test using your facility not theirs. I know many people that do it this way to protect their dignity.

For many (guys especially), it’s a real shocker and let down to find out that the healthcare industry doesn’t really respect them enough to provide them with male caregivers for male related tests & surgical procedures. Have you ever seen a male x-ray tech giving a female a mammogram? I don’t think so.

What’s worse, is they don’t even have the decency to tell the gentlemen up front before any testing or procedures are done that women will be present so that he can choose not to go forward at that location.

Our dignity & respect doesn’t really matter to the medical community in the grand scheme of things.

Guest you said; Look at some of the prep videos and you will see you are wrong. You are stripped of all dignity.

If that’s the case your circulating nurse who is supposed to be YOUR advocate when you are unconscious on the table has failed miserably to do their job. They should be reported for their failure to act on your behalf.

They want us to put our lives in their hands and they want us to trust them.

Well start earning that trust. Get the people you need on staff so you can respect the dignity of all not just a few.

You say all this about his wife could of helped bath him rather than them, what about if he or his wife had slipped over while doing it and severely injured them selves the hospital would then be under a health and safety investigation as to why a nurse wasn't doing the job.
These things what you think are unnecessary are implemented for a reason, if an accident had happened that had caused injury to either they wouldn't be able to claim or get any compensation because they wouldn't be insured to do it!
As I have said before he you feel so strongly about this matter any of you that post and complain then contact the American medical council about it and complain to them because that's the only way your get changes made that suite you.

I was in the hospital with my wife a couple years ago when she went to the ER for chest pains. They have individual rooms so I was sitting there with her. They decided to do an EKG and a male tech came in to hook her up. It was kind of funny because he was a customer where she works in a pet store so they recognized each other and he had to put all the sticky patches on her bare chest. He was a little hesitant about having to lift her breasts to put those on. He was probably in his early 20s and she's in her late 60s but they got through it ok.

I will keep my underware on if i have to go through surgrey it is not up to the doctors tell me what i were my underware will stay on.

i be dam if the doctors gonna tell me i cant where my underware threw surgy plus they dont need to check me down the any way. fucken doctors are perferts

The question to be asked is what type of underware are you allowed to wear.
This should be cotton. No Nylon underware is allowed inside the operating room.
Surgeons use cautery, and this can pose a risk of burns to the patient when wearing nylon underware. Bras with wire and steel fastners are also not permitted.
The hospital should provide paper or cotton underware to the patient when there is no need to remove under garments, for e.g. tonsillectomy, dental procedurese, etc.
Even with surgeries where no panties are required, the patient may still be moved to the OR wearing these. The OR staff will remove them when the patient is anaesthtised.
Lets keep the patients happy and respect their dignity.

For the medical professionals, it seems that many, if not all of you [from what I’ve read online and been told directly], have forgotten that providing care is about the WHOLE PERSON. There is lengthy dialogue online on the topic of ‘patient dignity.’ Understandably, medical professionals have a JOB to do but they CHOSE a field that SERVICEs PEOPLE and that entails everything; i.e., mental well-being as well as physical no matter what the medical specialty. As such, medical professionals can no longer hide their heads in the sand and deny that patient’s want and deserve more rights/say about WHO - besides THEIR CHOSEN medical professional(s) - sees them naked, especially, while they are vulnerable (e.g. under anesthesia). Globally, both men and women are noticing that two nurses in the UK have created Digni patient surgical tops/bottom, which allow all patients to maintain their dignity - and have less anxiety about this issue as they anticipate surgery.

 

Two nurses have designed a paper bra to protect
female patients’ modesty during theatre procedures.
Recovery nurses Fiona Cartwright (left) and
Natalie Reid (right), who work at Vale Healthcare
Hospital in Cardiff, came up with the design after
a survey found that female patients dread being
exposed during surgery.
The royal blue, disposable ‘Digni Bra’ and
matching paper knickers (on model) form a
‘dignity underwear’ set. These were distributed
across the hospital this month after a successful
trial in April and May involving more than 100
patients, and are being introduced throughout
other Nuffield Health hospitals.
Ms Cartwright said: ‘The feedback has been
tremendous. It is not a fashion item but is there to
give patients added dignity, which is really important.’

From numerous online posts by medical professionals, who unethically comment about patient’s – especially women’s bodies and/or take pics of them, the mandatory use of Digni surgical tops/bottoms for all surgeries would not be welcome by them not because these sterile [and easily/quickly removed] garments get in the way of planned or emergency medical procedures [proven that they don’t] but because these ‘professionals’ are, also, voyeurs – many influenced by groupthink to the patient’s detriment. So, instead of calling patients stupid, ignorant, etc., why not address the issue with this simply remedy. Perhaps, because YOU are one of those voyeurs in the medical profession or you’ve forgotten the reason that you SHOULD have chosen the medical professional; i.e., to provide optimal care (mental, emotional, physical to all patients in a safe, secure environment and that means NOT just YOU feeling safe but the patient feeling safe).

In addition to the USA adopting mandatory use of Digni patient surgical tops/bottoms, patients should, also, be allowed to chose to have only females or males in the OR in addition to their chosen surgeon. Patient should, also, be provided with a list of anesthesiologists with the option to say yes/no to these individuals, who, today, remain anonymous to them, yet, have their lives in their hands. I am encountering this issue now and have opted out of surgery although I still want to have it to alleviate the issues that I have but will not do so unless I may have staff in the OR of the gender of my choice as well as approved which anesthesiologists may be assigned to my surgery. On New York State Physician Profile , there are many anesthesiologists who have paid High/Above Average settlements indicating that s/he has either caused the death of OR serious harm to a patient, yet, under the current process, I could get one of these individuals working on me. Currently, patients have no say in who is their anesthesiologists nor do patients even meet that person (anesthesiologist), who has her/his life in their hands! Stop handing patients the wore out BS that all medical professionals are professionals - you are human with bad and good people in your professioins AND all of you have iphones plus most seem affected by groupthink; i.e., from the recent news, evidence, etc. This is the perspective from the other side! Those in the medical profession, who are on the lower rung of the ethic issues will scoff now then find a new page; those of you who just want to make the most $$$ will shrug/laugh; those of you who are good people and professionals will start thinking about this; and those of you who are great medical professionals (doctors, nurses, PAs, surgeons, etc.) will do something about this. Which are you?

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I have the same issue, it is over dignity, not worried about perverts. I happen to work at this hospital, and I see the surgery staff every day. I'm supposed to have laparoscopic gall bladder removal, and I for one see no need for my underwear to be removed, I see NTT's point. And no, I don't have any problem with my body or my large member. It is about respect.

Äell them in case of so called emergency cut them off. That is what I am now going to do.

What exactly is paranoid about being told you can keep your underwear on, having it written on you consent form, also writing not to have any men in the surgery or around you at all, also having a verbal agreement with the dr about this. Then when you are taken to the OR being given Versed to make you compliant and forget, where they take your underwear off and you have proof because they used the sterile cleaner way below the line of your underwear..it left a neat little straight stain on my skin and none on the underwear. And come to find out there were 2-3 men involved in the surgery and the dr says oh well we never agreed to that. And when you get your records that nice note you wrote in on the consent form is missing. My family witnessed me writing those notes with a nurse present and aware of what I was doing. They also gave me Versed again a few hours after the surgery..probably when they had me put my underwear back on.

Easier to call the patient paranoid than admit the "system is knowingly disrespecting the patient on a regular basis".

To protect your rights and dignity, take your time filling out any forms. DON'T let ANYONE hurry you through the process. Take the time to READ through what they propose to do and ASK as MANY questions as you need to until you are crystal clear as to what is going to happen.

If you make ANY alterations on any informed consent forms make sure you and whomever you brought with you as your advocate gets a copy of the signed forms before any test or procedure is started.

Take charge of your healthcare. Don't let them tell you "we're doing this in your best interests". Make your needs are met.

It's up to you.

Yes we told her. He made her mad and she came out and told me if he needed help I was to go help him. She was adamant. We are both fed up with the medical profession acting as if they own us. He cancelled his colonoscopy because the hospital told us they would not bring in a male nurse as it was discrimination against the all female staff they have. Yet same hospital has male nurses in OB. We need to fight back. He just found he has a problem and colonoscopy back on but we are working to solve his delema with nurses and cnas. We have both been on the end of opposite gender medical people embarrassing us. I am so upset that i have decided no lung biopsy. I will monitor for a while. Pet scan showed small area of cancer. am checking cyber knife. We really have some pretty awful hospitals where we live.