to read and perform their
roles without consulting
the team leader.
5. Make sure staff can han-
dle multiple roles.
This is
especially important in a
surgery center, where
manpower is likely to be
an issue. The danger of
assigning each person only
one role is that when an actual
MH crisis occurs, that person may
not be in the facility.
6. Focus on the logistics. Stress more on what you need and where it's
located than on physically treating the patient. In an MH crisis, the
hands-on portion with the patient shouldn't be the focus. The focus
should be on knowing where the MH cart is and bringing it into the
room, getting ice, reconstituting dantrolene and calling the MHAUS hot-
line.
7. Reconstituting dantrolene is a chore. You don't need to reconstitute
more than 1 or 2 vials of dantrolene during a drill. Just make sure peo-
ple understand how much effort is involved in reconstituting each vial.
Then you can say: And for this patient, we'd need to reconstitute 15
vials. There's a wow factor when people realize how laborious the
process is.
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Pre-printed cards let participants read and
perform their roles without having to wait for instructions.
