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Winter 2009 - Department of Anesthesiology

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Anesthesia Mobile Carts<br />

Guidelines for Anesthesia Mobile<br />

Carts:<br />

1. Do Not keep personal belongings<br />

in any drawer <strong>of</strong> the mobile carts.<br />

You all have lockers, and if you are<br />

running late, you can hang your jackets<br />

on hooks supplied in PACU.<br />

2. Do Not place drinks and food on<br />

top <strong>of</strong> the carts as this is a clean<br />

area for drug preparation<br />

3. Do Not leave uncapped needles on<br />

top <strong>of</strong> the cart.<br />

4. Label all syringes with Medication,<br />

strength <strong>of</strong> medication, date mixed<br />

or drawn up, and your legible initials<br />

5. Lock the anesthesia cart when not<br />

in use or not in actual visual field-<br />

Sterile Procedural Trays<br />

cannot see the cart when you<br />

are behind the curtain<br />

6. All multidose<br />

vials are to be labeled with date<br />

and time and initals when bottle<br />

is opened. All other bottles will<br />

be discarded<br />

SCIP Measures:<br />

1)Assure temperature on arrival to the PACU is performed and documented<br />

within 15 minutes <strong>of</strong> arrival.<br />

2) When an antibiotic is used in surgery; make sure when the name <strong>of</strong> the<br />

antibiotic is entered into Innovian that the dosage is completed. Many<br />

charts have been noted to have 0.0mg following the name <strong>of</strong> the antibiotic.<br />

This will be counted as a failure on audits being conducted by hospital<br />

administration.<br />

1. Must be completely INTACT prior to use on<br />

a patient<br />

2. If the integrity <strong>of</strong> the cover for the tray is<br />

loose from the tray or otherwise compromisedthis<br />

automatically makes the entire tray NOT<br />

STERILE. DO NOT USE. The blue cover inside is<br />

NOT water resistant.<br />

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