Emergency Situations
This is located in PACU across from bays 9/10.
What is the Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) cart?
These people can initiate Massive Transfusion Protocol.
Who is a surgeon or anesthesia?
These are the six rights of medication administration.
What is the right medication, right dose, right person, right route, right time, and right documentation?
This process is used to confirm the specimen and patient details.
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What is Tiger King?
The acronym RACE stands for this.
What is Rescue, Activate, Confine, Evacuate?
This form should be taken to the blood bank each time in order to receive the MTP coolers.
This is one risk factor in the perioperative setting that contributes to medication errors.
This type of specimen is placed immediately into a fixative such as formalin.
What is a permanent specimen?
Patrick Dempsey's character on Grey's Anatomy often went by this nickname?
What is McDreamy?
This person would decide to turn off the gas to the OR in a surgical fire emergency.
Who is anesthesia?
This comes in the first MTP Cooler.
What is 4 units of uncrossmatched group O pRBCs or patient blood type if known?
The surgeon has just given a verbal order to the circulating nurse for an OnQ Pain Pump with 0.25% Marcaine (plain) filled to 550 mL at 4mL/hr drip rate. The circulating nurse should do this next in order to ensure safe medication administration.
What is read-back the full verbal order?
This type of specimen is a small amount of tissue that is immediately taken to the lab, thinly sliced, and placed on slides for microscopic examination.
What is a fresh/frozen specimen?
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What is eight?
This medication should be given within ten minutes of recognizing the signs and symptoms of malignant hyperthermia.
What is ryanodex?
The Massive Transfusion Protocol lab kits are located here.
What is the new core on the bone flap fridge and in the old core next to the computer?
The circulating nurse is transferring local to the sterile field. The scrub person should confirm this information with the nurse.
What is the medication name, concentration, and expiration date?
This specimen is required to be taken to the lab within forty-five minutes of removal from the body.
What is a breast specimen?
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Elevated end tidal CO2 is an early sign of the intraoperative complication.
What is Malignant Hyperthermia?
Stat labs are drawn after these.
What is all EVEN numbered coolers?
The scrub person has just received 0.25% Marcaine with epi on the sterile field after confirming the medication name, concentration, and expiration date. The scrub person should do this next.
What is label the container the medication was transferred into?
Specimen information should be confirmed one final time during this process at the end of the case.
What is the post-procedure debrief?
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