a. Open sutures onto back table.

b. Open and flip into basin, or hand to scrub, such items as the lap tapes, the 4 x 8 inch sponges, the stick sponges, the suction tubing, the medicine glass, and the emesis basin (see Figure 3-11).

Figure 3-11 The circulator “flipping” supplies onto the back table.c. Open and give scrub the surgeon’s gown and gloves.

d. Open and hand off the knife blades.