The document describes a crash cart, a mobile unit used in hospitals for emergency medication and equipment during critical situations. It outlines essential features, inventory components, and supplies necessary for life support protocols, including medications, intubation supplies, and IV start supplies. Regular maintenance and checks for expiration dates of medications and equipment are emphasized to ensure preparedness in emergencies.

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

18. Reference
• http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/