Room Preparation (Equipment, Supplies, Personnel)

Guidelines:

• Necessary equipment only
• Stocked and counted per policy
• Fed, rested staff
• Verify sterility indicators (insert chart)
• Room temp/humid tracking
• Anesthesia test
• Post-op availability
  • Ride, bed, pacu, etc
• Reps needed?
• Imaging present
• Pullcard

Considerations:

• Room selection
  • Distance to help
  • Room function
• Test air return
• Have equipment for “possible”
  • All lap is possible open
• Path for equipment
  • C arm
  • Bed position! (base)

Nurse’s role:

• Final room inspection
• Coordination with teams
  • Radiology
  • Lab
• Verification of sterility
• Presence of needed supplies

Pitfalls:

• “Possible but not possible”
• Bed position
• Post-op dispo
• 1 of 1 sets

Examples:

• Known 1 of 1 set needed for case (open on table and verified before rolling)
• Need C-arm with no room or path for adequate imaging (inform Charge/manager/surgeon, likely need new room)

Linchpins (Key Points):

• Each team looks to the circulating RN for the ownership of the OR space