Personnel
Person who calls attending surgeon to notify them of the cardiac arrest
CTS SDU APP or Fellow
Where is the DCALS cart located?
3100: in hallway behind HUC
3300: in hallway behind HUC
6E: in hallway across from 6E13
Person who needs to have sterile gloves on to do compressions after the chest is cleaned with betadine
The Compressors
A type and screen should always be sent in an open chest code or ECMO deployment. T/F?
FALSE. If the patient has a current type and screen, you do not need to send a new one.
Staple remover
Top section
Person who confirms that the patient's chest should be opened on SDU
CTS attending surgeon (APP will call)
Where are the emergency release blood forms kept? When do you need them?
1) APP workrooms on 3100, HUC desk on 6E
2) when you need blood emergently and you don't have a current type and screen
Person to report back to when your job during the ECMO deployment or chest re-opening is complete
7W charge nurse
This many PRBC should be set up for a chest reopening or ECMO deployment
2
DCALS Pack
Person who calls the 7W Bed Flow RN to notify the of the open chest code
Where is the pacer kept during a chest re-opening?
At the foot of the bed, under the sterile drape (pacer is kept on defib cart on SDU)
Reasons to call 115
Cardiac arrest, RRT, first responder, difficult airway, cath lab deployment, ECMO deployment (after talking to surgeon), stroke code, blood and body fluid exposures
The blood bank is located _______.
By the ER on the 1st floor of the hospital. Take the elevators that you take to Starbucks/the cafeteria to the 1st floor, go straight and turn right at the patient elevators.
Mini sternotomy tray
3rd drawer on 31/33
4th drawer on 6E
Person who calls 115 to activate ECMO
CTS SDU APP after confirmed by fellow/surgeon (or whoever the APP designates)
Size of suction container for chest reopening
3L. Normally the size is 1L and this cannister should be switched out for the 3L cannister
No CPR needed if the patient is on this type of ECMO
VA
Blood must be dispensed to a _______.
Cooler
Head lamp/light source
Bottom drawer/7W bedflow brings it!!
What people have to be wearing to do compressions once the sterile drape goes on the patient
full sterile garb: sterile gown, hat, mask, sterile gloves
The pieces of equipment to not send back to the OR with the OR team
The mini sternotomy, internal defibrillator and large surgical trays! Give them to the 7W charge/bedflow nurse and they will take to sterile processing
Things located in the green cart
Extra and different supplies, sutures, items needed to close the skin
Who is responsible for getting blood during a
1) chest reopening?
2) ECMO deployment
1) someone designated by the RRT nurse
2) the MICU charge nurse
Sterile Drape
1st drawer DCALS cart