Role of the Scrub Nurse on the Heart Team

Abstract

The patient’s characteristics, cardiac echo findings, the various image examination and standard laboratory tests effect perioperative risk and the planning of surgical procedures. All members of the heart team share in risk evaluation and in planning scheduled surgical procedures. In the preoperative conference, members of the heart team discuss the various aspects of the operation, and make decision on device types, sizes, and methods of approaching the operation. The role of the scrub nurse is to discuss and suggest the nursing care which is necessary for a safe operation during the heart team conference. If scrub nurses would like to become the moderator of the heart team, they have to consider the mental state of patients and improve the operation nursing.