Barbado, Romuelle B.

Year III Block I

PH71 (Hospital Pharmacy Lecture)

Crash Cart
- as defined by Merriam Webster is ‘a cart stocked with emergency medical equipment, supplies, and drugs
for use by medical personnel especially during efforts to resuscitate a patient experiencing cardiac arrest’. It
is divided into different drawers and each drawers contain different items.
A crash cart must contain the following:
Crash Cart Top

− Defibrillator with leads

− Disposable gloves
− Sharps container
− (1) package of defibrillator pads

Side

− Oxygen Tank
− Backboard

Drawer 1 – Medication Drawer

− (2) Amiodarone
− (2) Atropine 1 mg
− (2) Vasopressin
− (2) Calcium gluconate
− Dextrose 50% 5ml
− Isuprel (Isoproterenol)
− Epinephrine 1 mg
− Lidocaine 100mg
− (2) Sodium Bicarbonate 50 meq
− (2) Dopamine
− (2) Lasix (Furosemide)
− (2) Dobutamine
− (2) Tridil (nitroglycerin)
− (2) Pronestyl (Procainamide)
− (2) Nipride (Nitroprusside)
− (2) Verapamil
− Magnesium sulfate

Drawer 2 – Airway Management Drawer

− Airways, oral, assorted sizes

− Airways, nasal trumpet, assorted sizes
− Intubation tray – laryngoscopes, non-disposable and disposable with blades
o K-Y jelly (2), viscous xylocaine (1)
o (2) 10 cc syringes
o Stylet
o Tape
o (2) batteries
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o ET tubes – sizes 3.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5

o Yankauer suction
o Suction tubing
o Suction catheter tray
o 02 mask with tubing
o Nasal cannula
o (2) ABG kits

Drawer 3 Venipuncture tubes and equipment

− 20 ml syringe
− (4) 3 ml syringes
− TB syringe
− IV start equipment:
o (4) 18 gauge angiocaths
o (4) 20 gauge angiocaths
o 22 gauge angiocath
o Tourniquet
o Assorted butterflies
− 3 way stopcock
− Assorted needles
− Bandaids
− Betadine swabs
− Alcohol swabs
− Saline locks
− Lidocaine topical solution
− Radial artery catheterization set
− Tape

Drawer 4
− Electrodes
− B/P cuff with stethoscope
− Assorted sterile gloves
− (2) Packages of defibrillator pads
− NG tube
− (1)60 ml syringe
− Locks

Drawer 5
− IV solutions:
o 1000 ml each of D5W, RL, NS
o 500 ml each D5W, NS
o (2) 100 ml NS
o (2) 500 ml Lidocaine 2 grams
o Dobutamine
o Dopamine
o Amiodarone IVPB
− Tubing
o (2) microdrips (60 drops/ml)
o macrodrips (15 drops/ml)
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o extension sets
− Medication additive labels

Drawer 6 (Bottom)

o Tracheostomy tray
o Transvenous Packing Electrode kit
o Ambu bags, Adult & Pedi
o Suction set up (portable cart)