Picture Quiz Answers and a Last Thought on Superman #657
Good answers. The keys were sterility and contamination. In the first panel, Alfred is putting on his sterile gloves; his mask is down and his goggles are off. In the second panel, his mask is up and his goggles are on. This means that he had to have touched his non-sterile mask and goggles with his sterile gloves, contaminating them. The proper order is: gloves mask, cap, and eyewear on. Scrub hands at scrub sink. Enter operating room. Put gown on. Put gloves on. Do it wrong and the scrub nurse and/or operating room technician will quickly (and unpleasantly) point out your error to everyone present, and you’ll never, ever do it wrong again.
The other things that caught my eye were the coffee cup next to the sterile instrument, and the bizarre waveform on what looks like an EKG monitor. Acutally, given that it’s Alfred we’re dealing with, it’s probably a teacup.
Personally, I was willing to give Alfred some credit and figured some special electrodeless Waynetech EKG was used and some fancy clear Bat-skin-sterilizer was used on Robin — he’s got these fancy IVs in place after all — but go ahead and give yourself credit if you caught either one of those.
The instrument handles will be facing correctly when Alfred stands next to Robin to operate, it’s just hard to see in the scan I made (and what you think are butter knife blades are actually scalpel handles).
The bat guano is a good call. I didn’t think of that. I can’t imagine that would be beneficial in a wound.
Speaking of doctors and Gotham City, I forgot to mention in my look at Superman #657 that the medical officer of the resistance was named “Tompkins.” Dr. Leslie Tompkins*, perhaps?
*As for the spelling, I’ve seen it spelled both Thompkins and Tompkins. Hell, I have it both ways on this very blog. I choose to believe it’s her.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:10 am
“The proper order is: Gloves, cap, and eyewear on. Scrub hands at scrub sink. Enter operating room. Put gown on. Put gloves on.” So you put gloves on, the wash your hands?
January 5th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Official Comment
Oops. That should be “mask, cap, and eyewear”
January 5th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Alright, I couldn’t tell that those were scissors in yesterday’s scan — they looked like forks, or those scrapey things. Yeah, I’d be REAL useful in the OR….
January 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I’ve resisted posting this for two days now, but to be fair, the actual bats are kept elsewhere, as pointed out in that story. Hence, no guano problem.
January 5th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
So bat guano isn’t a problem but what about insects? I don’t think the cave can be a very sterile place. Lord know how many spiders Bruce has stepped on in the cave.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I have to imagine Bruce has a Thanagarian bug zapper or something.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:59 am
As a layman, I’ll explain to you why this mistake was made:
“Isn’t everything in an operating room sterile already?”
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