O.R. Wound Classification
Hemorrhoidectomy
What is Class III/ Contaminated?
This is the most common anatomical location of where fires occur in the operating room
What is the head, neck, or upper chest
This mix of medications causes the biochemical reaction, initiating an MH crisis
What is the inhalation anesthetic and succinylcholine?
This is the minimal amount of staff needed to move a patient
What is 4?
This committee allows frontline clinical nurses to share power, control, and responsibility
What is Unit Based Council?
This class describes an operative wound in which the respiratory, alimentary, genital, or urinary tract is entered without unusual contamination
What is Class II/Clean-Contaminated?
This is when the fire prevention assessment should be done
What is before the procedure begins?
One of the first symptoms to occur in an MH crisis
What is End Tidal CO2?
How to prevent the most common source of fire in the O.R.
What is placing the bovie tip in the holder when not in use?
In G.I., patients who's biopsy is positive for this.. have an increased risk for stomach cancer
What is H. Pylori?
An abdominal incision from primary closure of exploratory surgery for repair of splenic laceration following blunt trauma
What is Class I/Clean?
Anything that provides enough energy to start a fire
What is an ignition source?
The medication to treat MH
What is Ryanodex (or Dantrolene)
This tool is used to communicate important information in a standardized way
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation)
A nurse may witness this after the provider discusses risks and benefits of the procedure.
what is an informed consent?
Open cardiac massage
What is Class III/Contaminated
These are the three parts of the fire triangle
What is fuel, oxidizer and ignition source?
The percentage of MH events that relapse, which can be fatal
What is 25%?
One way in which we can track sentinel events in periop services
What is a Verge report?
In order to be this, an organization must first be preoccupied with failure
What is a High Reliability Organization?
This class suggests that organisms causing postoperative infection were present in the operative field before the operation
What is Clas IV/Dirty-infected?
This is the most common area that fires occur in a healthcare setting
What is a kitchen fire?
This medication should NOT be given to treat cardiac dysrhythmia associated with MH
What is a calcium channel blocker?
Name 3 safety precautions that are the laser operator's responsibility
What are goggles, warning signs, water, wet towels and smoke evacuator?
This policy states that staff must be within 30 minutes of the hospital
What is on-call policy in the operating room?