Are diapers sometimes ordered by surgeons in the OR?

All right, all of you many diaper-lovers out there! (Per se, diapers aren't an interest of mine. I'm just trying to be obliging, as well as tease my curiosity!) I'm sure that no surgeon likes to have his lovely operating table soiled! I realise that there's not too much chance of that if the patient has been admitted a day before the operation, and forbidden any food for the hours leading up to it. Also, I speculate that patients on admittance may be prescribed a laxative to ‘clean them out’. But what about emergency operations, say, and especially ones for children?

My question simply is: can someone tell me whether it sometimes happens that as soon as the anaesthetic has taken effect, the patient is dressed with diapers to guard against ‘disaster’. (You know what I mean, I'm sure.) I know that several things happen at this stage that the patient is not normally told about.

- Ken

I’ve never heard of this nor do I have experience with it, but I could see some cases when this may be ordered. I’ve actually thought of it from a play perspective, but have never done it (either as the surgeon or the patient).

No. (and I do know).

If you shit- you shit. It becomes the post-op surgical recovery unit people’s problem.

Shit does indeed travel “downhill”.