Fire Safety
This is who is responsible for preventing fires.
What is all staff members?
What the acronym R.A.C.E. stands for.
What is: Rescue, Alarm, Contain, and Evacuate?
The locations of fire evacuation signs. (Must name 5 out of 7 for points.)
What is: employee entrance, back door, between OR 2 and 3, PACU, between the lobby and the garage door, the break room, and front entryway?
True or False: Fire blankets can be used more than once.
What is false?
The purpose of a debriefing and is it important.
What is to strengthen learning after a simulation exercise by identifying areas of improvement, process emotions/stress response, and promote teamwork?
Debriefing is important as it encourages reflection, promote self-awareness of skills, and promote learning.
This is how often fire drills are conducted in an ambulatory surgery.
What is quarterly or four times a year?
What the acronym P.A.S.S stands for. Please demonstrate.
What is: Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep?
The location and procedure for electrical panel shut off.
What is the mechanical room and turning the handle to off.
How to use a fire blanket.
What is donning gloves, fold the blanket over your hands, hold the blanket up like a shield and carefully place over the flames?
(Do not throw the blanket over the fire. Only use if fire will be completely covered by surface of the blanket.)
Steps to putting out electrical fires.
What is shutting off electrical power or unplugging unit, if possible, use a class C extinguisher on an energized unit or smother flames with a fire blanket, or if the power is connected? You can use a class A or B extinguisher depending on the fuel.
The type of fire extinguishers we have in our facility.
What is multipurpose or ABC extinguisher?
What a "go bag" is and where they live.
What is a bag full of essentials for emergencies and in the printer room and PACU cupboard behind the desk?
The place where we can find the gas shut off valves.
What is outside of each OR room and in the hallway across from the garage for preop and PACU
?
How to remove drapes that are on fire.
What is remove the drape to the ground and roll it on itself to smother the fire?
The pull stations can be found here. (Must identify 4 out of 6 to earn points.)
What is employee entrance, by Evan's office, between OR 5 and 6, by garage door, front entrance, and in the Mechanical room by the outside door?
This is where we can find the policy and procedure book where the fire policy is located.
What is the table in the front office by the staff mail shelves and on the computer?
The parts that make up the fire triangle.
What is fuel, ignition source, and oxidizer?
The locations of the fire extinguishers. (Must identify 8 out of the 10 locations for points.)
What is the employee entrance, between OR 5 and 6, the garage, across from the lobby bathrooms, the room behind GI, the white room or supply room, in OR 5 and 6, in the OR between the women's dressing room, in the lobby by the little window where Jenny sits, and the mechanical room?
When a fire erupts on the patient during surgery and the surgical site is above the xiphoid process, this is the protocol.
What is coat the head and any facial hair near the surgical site with water-soluble surgical lubricant to decrease flammability and use an adhesive incise drape?
Identify our fuels, oxidizers, and ignition sources.
When there is a fire discovered, this is what we do.
What is ensuring safety of all patients in your care, move any persons in danger, activate fire alarm and call 911, announce CODE RED with location of fire via the page button on phone, turn off gasses in area of fire, close all doors, if safe attempt to extinguish fir with available equipment?
The scope of a fire risk surgical assessment.
What is assessing the flammability of all materials used on or around the patient before the procedure starts?
Where the fire blanket lives.
What is on top of the refrigerator in the OR hallway?
The process when a fire erupts in a patient.
What is eliminate ignition source, extinguish fire with saline or water, remove flammable materials, then evacuate and contain?
For airway fires, disconnect the patient from the breathing circuit, remove ET tube, then reestablish airway after patient is moved to safety. (APSF)
Identify evacuation routes.
What is the staff entrance, the west entrance, the main entrance, and between OR 5 and 6?