I Can Count On You
True or False: 4x4 gauze is acceptable to use in the abdomen as a surgical sponge.
What is false.
The most commonly retained surgical item.
What is a lap sponge?
Method for calling a code blue in the OR.
What is "Code Blue OR" and stating the room #?
The nerve bundle we are protecting by keeping the arms extended at less than 90 degrees in the supine position.
What is the brachial plexus?
How should two team members count surgical sponges?
What is by separating the sponges completely.
2 instances during a procedure when you should not initiate a count
Must answer 2 of the following.
What is during time out, during opening of implants, during critical dissections, when handling specimens, or during induction?
Name 3 of the house-wide code team who respond to our codes in the OR.
Name 3 of the following:
What is intensivist, ICU nurse, CICU nurse, pharmacy, or resp therapy?
Important piece of the HANA table to keep the patient on the bed.
What is the perineal post?
An item is considered retained when:
What is when the wound has to be reopened to retrieve the item?
The role stickers for code team members are this color.
What is pink?
This is the way the yellow fins should be angled for proper body alignment.
What are four times when a surgical count should not be completed.
What is: time-out periods, critical dissections, confirming and opening implants, induction & emergence from anesthesia, or care and handling of specmiens.
This is the way to count packaged items.
What is according to the number that the item is packaged in?
DAILY DOUBLE
The closest code cart to room 11 is located here.
What is endoscopy?
When padding the Jackson Table (chest, hip, thigh), the white portion of the pads should be positioned this way.
What is against the patient?
Your patient left the OR with sponges intentionally placed for packing. Why wouldn't you get an x-ray?
What is, the x-ray won't tell us how many sponges are in the wound and we will get an x-ray when the patient returns to have them removed?
The bottom drawer of the code carts contain this critically important resuscitation item.
What are the internal paddles?
This is how the patient's bottom leg is positioned when in lateral position.
What is bent?