Scrub clothes are not visible in the operating room. Just the gown, caps and gloves. Surgical linens (drapes, gowns and towels) often were various shades of green. During the 70’s many hospitals did switch to blue, a more soothing color on the eyes. Which also helped centralized laundries from mixing up different institutions linnens (blue for one hospital, gren for another). Most scrubs in operating rooms remain blue or green today, however, some facilities have gone so far as to have scrubs in an obnoxious pink color, which helps to lessen the impact of scrubs ‘walking off’.

Many institutions have required scrubs of various colors for different hospital personel (doctors, nurses, orderlies, janitors, etc.)

The theories behind the use of green scrubs in this article are interesting and scientificaly correct, but played little to no role in most institutions conversion to the use of colored scrubs during the mid-part of the 20th century.

1 – The bright OR lights in an environment of white would have a similar effect to snow-covered ground on a bright sunny day. (And I’d like to see while I’m in the OR)

2 – When surgical instruments (shiny steel) lie down on the sterile field they tend to reflect white from the ceiling. (although that’s the drape and not the scrubs)

3 – When everything is green, it makes everyone in the OR a little more careful around those items… they’re subconsciously assumed to be in the sterile field.

Great article, though.

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