Treatment and procedure carts are hospital trolleys equipped with everything needed to take care of a patient. They usually carry tools useful for treating a wound in the post-operative course such as gauze, scissors, bottles, a plaster, a syringe, etc.
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The structure of these carts is standard: what differentiates the various lines are the materials and the configuration of the drawers, which can be customized according to height and/or space, and also by inserting a larger compartment closed by a door.
The crash cart is the commonly used term to describe a self-contained, mobile unit that contains virtually all of the materials, drugs, and devices necessary to perform a code. The configuration of crash carts may vary, but most will be a waist high or chest high wheeled cart with many drawers. Many hospitals will also keep a defibrillator and heart monitor on top of the crash cart since these devices are also needed in most codes. Since the contents and organization of crash carts may vary, it is a good idea for you to make yourself aware of the crash cart that you are most likely going to encounter during a code.
The size, shape, and contents of a crash cart may be different between hospitals and between different departments within the same hospital. For example, an adult crash cart is set up differently than a pediatric crash cart or crash cart on the medical service may be different than the one on a surgical service.
Medications
Medications are usually kept in the top drawer of most crash carts. These need to be accessed and delivered as quickly as possible in emergent situations. Therefore, they need to be available to providers very easily. The medications are usually provided in a way that makes them easy to measure and dispense quickly.
The common set of first drawer medications might be:
If the crash cart also contains pediatric medications these may be contained in the second drawer. Often these would include:
The second drawer of the crash cart might also contain saline solution of various sizes like 100 mL or 1 L bags. A crash cart in the surgery department may include Ringer's lactate solution.
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Intubation
Many crash carts will also include most of the materials necessary to perform intubation. These may be contained in the third or fourth drawers depending on the setup of the particular crash cart.
The adult intubation drawer will contain:
Pediatric intubation materials may be in a separate cart or if they are included in the adult crash cart they may occupy their own drawer. The pediatric intubation supply drawer may contain the following:
Intravenous lines
It is usually the case that the equipment necessarily to start an IV is in a separate drawer from materials needed to maintain an IV, such as the fluids in the tubing. The IV drawer(s) usually contain the following:
Procedure drawer
The bottom drawer on crash carts is usually devoted to keeping prepackaged kits available for various urgent and emergent procedures (or it is where the IV solutions are kept). In any case, the following kits may be found in the procedure drawer: