Tip of the Month: Use fanny pack to store trauma supplies
Use fanny pack to store trauma supplies
ED nurses at University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City created a fanny pack to use for trauma cases, which puts commonly used drugs at nurses' fingertips. "The trauma pack contains many incidentals that are needed to work a trauma patient," says Alison Wright, RN, BSN, nurse educator for the ED. "It is very helpful because frequently we have five minutes or less to prepare for a patient."
Items in fanny pack
The pack is ideal to use when transporting patients to computed tomography and radiology. It is filled by the pharmacy and contains the following items:
- assortment of syringes and needles;
- alcohol wipes;
- medications: promethazine 25 mg vial, cefazolin 1 gm bottle, normal saline 10 cc bottles, and vecuronium bromide 10 mg bottle.
"The routine is for the nurse to check out morphine, [midazolam HCI] and [dolasetron] and add it to the zipper pocket," says Wright.
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For more information, contact:
- Alison Wright, BSN, Nurse Educator, University of Utah Health System, 50 N. Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132. Telephone: (801) 585-2808. Fax: (801) 585-7429. E-mail: [email protected].
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