You Are Scrubbed on a Total Hip and One of the Implants

Multiple Choice

You are scrubbed on a total hip and one of the implants get contaminated. The circulator goes out to look for another one and comes back saying that is the last one of that size that they have available in the OR. What do you do?

A) Tell the surgeon to cancel the surgery and start picking up your instruments
B) Sterilize it using immediate use sterilization with an indicator tape in the pan
C) Sterilize it using immediate use sterilization with a biological monitoring device in the pan
D) Tell the surgeon to use another size implant