Mr. Specter. Did you go into the operating room at that time?
Miss Wester. I went as far as the doorway with him.
Mr. Specter. Now, what was done with the stretcher on which he came to that point?
Miss Wester. I took the stretcher and rolled it to the center area of the operating room suite—rolled the sheets up on the stretcher into a small bundle.
Mr. Specter. Was there one sheet or more than one sheet?
Miss Wester. I believe there were two sheets and I rolled one inside the other up into a small bundle.
Mr. Specter. What is the next normal procedure with respect to the number of sheets on such a stretcher in like circumstances?
Miss Wester. The cart—the mattress on the cart is covered with one sheet, the patient is usually covered with another. When they arrive in the operating room the sheet covering the patient is removed and a grey cotton blanket is placed over the patient and the sheets are rolled up and usually returned to the emergency room with the cart.
Mr. Specter. What else, if anything, was on that stretcher?
Miss Wester. There were several glassine packets, small packets of hypodermic needles—well, packed in and sterilized in. There were several others-some alcohol sponges and a roll of 1-inch tape. Those things, I definitely know, were on the cart, and the sheets, of course.