Crash cart
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A crash cart or code cart (crash trolley in UK medical jargon) or "MAX cart" is a set of trays/drawers/shelves on wheels used in hospitals for transportation and dispensing of emergency medication/equipment at the site of medical/surgical emergency for life support protocols to potentially save someone's life.
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Crash cart
- 1. FASLU RAHMAN CK 13-BVP-205 COLLEGE OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES, POOKODE, WAYANAD KERALA, INDIA
- 2. CRASH CART A crash cart is a set of trays on wheels used in hospitals for transportation and dispensing of emergency medication/equipment at site of surgical emergency for life support protocols to potentially save someone's life. Should be kept in easily accessible position- central to patient care areas
- 3. Desirable features Mobility Organisation Only emergency drugs BASIC LIFE SUPPORTS- ABC A- air way B-breathing C-circulation
- 4. FRONT VIEW Bottom Basket Top Basket • Large Gloves • BVM with Large & Medium Masks • Defibrillator Pads Right Side of Cart • Multi-function Electrodes • Surgical Cone Mask • Sharps Container
- 5. SIDE VIEW Left side of Cart Tank & Gauge Crash Cart Inventory List Anaphylaxis Treatment Guide
- 6. REAR VIEW Back of Cart Backboard Clipboard Procedures Sheet Crash Cart Check Off List Pharmacy Charge Sheet
- 7. First Drawer: Medications • Amiodarone - antiarrythmic • Bretylium tosilate -ventricular antiarrythmic • Nitroglycerine -vasodilator • Atropine –parasympatholytic • Vasopressin • Dopamine • Epinephrine • Anesthetics- ketamine , xylazin • Lidocaine • Antibiotics • Naloxone -opiate antagonist
- 8. • Sodium bicarbonate • Magnesium chloride • Sodium Chloride 0.9% • Calcium Chloride • Sodium Bicarbonate • Sterile Water Inj. 20 ml vial • Dextrose 50% • Povidone-Iodine Swab stick • Alcohol Swabs First Drawer: Medications –ctd.
- 9. Drawer 2: Intubation Supplies • Endotracheal tubes • Laryngoscope • Gauze • Nasopharyngeal Airways • Tongue Depressor
- 11. Drawer 3: IV Start Supplies • Syringes-3,6,12,20ml -drug administration • Needles-14,16,18,20,22,25 gauge -drug administration • IV Catheters-16,18,20 gauge - drug administration • Intraosseous catheter or bone marrow needles-18,20 gauge • Canula • Scalp vein set • Vacutainers
- 13. Drawer 4: IV Supplies and Tubing • 30 ml or 35 ml Syringe • Adhesive Tape 1" • Catheter Tip Syringe • Betadine solution
- 14. Drawer 5: Procedure Trays • ECG Electrodes • Surgeon's Gloves- Sizes 6, 6½, 7, 7½, 8 • Sutures • Needle Holder • Sterile Field
- 15. • Sthethoscope • Cotton • Tape • Razores • Sissores • Flash light • Normal saline
- 16. Maintenance of Crash Cart It is important that the crash cart be checked regularly and maintained so that its contents are there when needed. Expiration dates on medications should be checked on the first day of the month Expired medications should be promptly removed and replaced The defibrillation pads on the defibrillator should be checked for expiration date The battery charge on the monitor should be checked and documented
- 17. Crash cart – nut shell Emergency equipment Medications Intubation Supplies IV Start Supplies Procedure Trays
Editor's Notes
- set of trays on wheels used in hospitals for transportation and dispensing of emergency medication/equipment at site of surgical emergency for life support protocols
- Defibrillation –process in which an elwctronic device gives an electric shock to the heart --helps reestablish normal contraction rythms BVM—bag valve mask or ambu bag---self inflating bag-----positive pressure ventilation sharps container is a container that is filled with used medical needles (and other sharp medical instruments, such as an IVcatheter). Sharing needles is often the cause of AIDS (HIV) and other blood-borne infections spreading among intravenous drug users.
- Back board—supporting,fracture patient
- group of pharmaceuticals that are used to suppress abnormal rhythms of the heart such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation—used in cardiac dysrhyyhmias Bretylium tosilate -chemical defibrillator Lidocaine –local anaesthetic-- numb tissue in a specific area and to treat ventricular tachycardia
- Sodium bicarbonate -alkalinizing agent Magnesium chloride – chemical defibrillator
- Gauze-tie endotracheal tubes in place
- Vacutainer blood collection tube is a sterile glass or plastic tube with a closure that is evacuated to create a vacuum inside the tube
- IV Catheters Scalp vein set Intraosseous catheter or bone marrow needle Vacutainers canula
- Razores--shaving Fash light ----power failure
- checked regularly and maintained Expiration dates on medications removed and replaced