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First Time Scrubbing: Cutting the Pump Line Without Clamping It
By: Margaret Vance, MSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC
Published: 11/29/2023
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Margaret Vance, MSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC, Clinical Nurse Education Specialist- Operating Room, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, shares the time scrubbed in a cardiac case and cut the pump line without clamping it first. As she says, “Yes. Mortified.”
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