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S p o n s o r e d by
PRACTICE ROUND Nurse Manager Jane Bell, RN, BSN, (left) and
Quality Improvement Coordinator Jennifer Taylor, LVN, practice drawing
up dantrolene while Lead Sterile Processing Tech Brenda Neighbors,
CASSPT, charts how much is administered during this mock drill.
Patient Safety
If malignant hyperthermia ever strikes, the team at
Cityview Surgery Center in Fort Worth, Texas, is ready.
H
er supply of dantrolene was about to expire. Rather than let the
vials go to waste, Jane Bell, RN, BSN, the nurse manager at
Cityview Surgery Center in Fort Worth, Texas, had a better
idea: Let's have an in-service where we can all practice drawing
the dantrolene up.
"We want to be as prepared as possible in the event of an emergency," says Ms. Bell.
Malignant hyperthermia can strike the patient under your care at
any time and without warning. Once MH strikes, time is of the
essence. Do you really want an MH crisis to be the first time your staff
draws up dantrolene, the rescue agent used to treat potentially deadly
MH? Definitely not, says Ms. Bell. She wanted her OR staff comfortable with the labor-intensive reconstituting process. She wanted them
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