The exact contents of a crash cart may vary depending on the hospital or facility, but commonly included items are:
- Medications: These may include drugs for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) such as epinephrine, atropine, amiodarone, and others used for resuscitation and stabilization.
- Defibrillator/Monitor: For rhythm analysis and delivering electrical shocks to revert life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias.
- Airway Equipment: Laryngoscope (with various sizes of blades), endotracheal tubes, bag-valve-mask (BVM) devices, oral and nasal airways, and sometimes more advanced airway devices.
- IV Access Equipment: Needles, catheters, tourniquets, syringes, and various intravenous fluids.
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Gloves, masks, eye protection, etc.
- Miscellaneous Equipment: Chest decompression needles (for tension pneumothorax), suction devices, sterile gauze, and bandages.
- Documentation: Patient care documentation forms or systems, to keep a record of interventions and medications given during the resuscitation.
- Oxygen and Oxygen Delivery Devices: Nasal cannula, simple masks, and non-rebreather masks.
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