healthcare professionals to come help you, you have to be ready to
handle them.
• You have to coordinate with your local emergency management
association to let them know what resources you have at your facility
for emergencies (the number of beds, wheelchairs and stretchers, for
example).
2. Safe injection practices
Are you still filling your syringes from a multi-dose vial in patient care
areas? And I don't just mean the OR. You shouldn't be. Both the CDC
and CMS say that's not safe practice. So if you have a multi-dose vial of
1% lidocaine that you want to use on more than one patient, you'll have
to fill your syringe in a designated medication prep area that is away
from anywhere that you do patient care in order to meet this standard.
I've generally been able to find a dedicated space in even some of the
smallest facilities. Alternatively, you can treat multi-dose vials as sin-
gle-dose vials. Also remember that any medication drawn into a
syringe is good for only 1 hour.
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