At 17:10 on December 4, 2017, the Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology conducted a simulation drill on the emergency plan for power outage in the operating room, which was drawn up after repeated modifications, in the second operating room.
Scene 1
At 17:10 the second operating room was performing a left-sided hernia repair surgery under combined hard-lumbar anesthesia, when it suddenly went dark and the power went out!
The roving nurse Zhang Qing immediately opened the operating door to check the situation in the department, and confirmed that it was a partial blackout in the second operating room. Immediately called the peripheral staff to come in to help: "The power is out in the second operating room, please bring emergency lights!"
Reporting to the surgeon on the table, "Dr. Ju, Dr. Chen please pause the surgery, it's a local power outage," the surgeon on the table covered the surgical incision with wet abdominal gauze.
Hand-washing nurse Zhang Yayun immediately organizes surgical instruments to protect the surgical incision.
The anesthesiologist Qin Sha immediately gave the patient Ms. Tang a good explanation, and closely observed the vital signs, to give comfort.
17:13The roving nurse immediately checked the cause of the power outage and confirmed that it was a trip, and then immediately dealt with it. And connect the power supply of each instrument and equipment to re-adjust the parameters and report to the doctor, the problem has been dealt with, you can continue the operation.
Outside the operating room
Then the peripheral nurse Chen Min sent emergency lights
The peripheral nurse He Xiaoxia immediately reported to the head nurse the second operating room within the local power outage.
? Scene 2
17:19 roving nurse Zhang Qing in the rounds of the surgical process suddenly power outage, immediately open the operating door to check is the whole department power outage, call: "power outage, quickly come over to look at it, help me bring the emergency lights!"
Report to the doctor to suspend surgery and protect the surgical incision. Immediately notify the electrician by phone, the General Affairs Section
and quickly turn off the instrument and equipment switch and unplug the power supply.
Outside the operating room
Chen Min, a peripheral nurse, fetched emergency lights to assist
After receiving the notification, the head nurse came to the operating room to direct
The electrician viewed the cause of the power outage in the operating room, and checked for hidden dangers
A few minutes after the power came on, the roving nurses connected to the power supply of various instruments and equipment to regulate the parameters and then told the doctor to continue the operation.
After the drill, everyone said the drill was very beneficial, not only to deepen the understanding of the emergency plan, but also to familiarize themselves with the entire process, the exercise process of division of labor and cooperation, busy but not chaotic, teamwork awareness is further improved.
In addition, we also actively discussed the entire drill process, on how to better ensure the safety of all the operations under the conditions of the power outage to offer advice, and the current work to put forward further improvement measures.