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TASCS 2017 Annual Conference 3/2/2017 Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center Society 2017 Annual Conference Emergency Protocols for Ambulatory Surgery Centers Laura Schneider, RN, CGRN, CASC Objectives 1. Evaluate the level of emergency preparedness

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Laura Schneider, RN, CGRN, CASC

Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center Society

2017 Annual Conference

Emergency Protocols for Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Objectives

  • 1. Evaluate the level of emergency preparedness at your

center

  • 2. Implement practices to improve staff training and

preparation for patient emergencies at your center

  • 3. Apply the use of easily assessable checklists to assist

staff with essential duties during emergency situations

Outpatient Surgery Center

  • Emergency preparedness at all times
  • Maintain a safe environment for patients, personnel,

and visitors

  • Determine resources available
  • Train staff for all possible situations
  • Conduct frequent drills and evaluate preparedness
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Cardiopulmonary Arrest- CODE BLUE

  • Confusing, chaotic, traumatic to all involved
  • Did everything you could have?
  • Can’t prevent situations from occurring, but you

can learn from them

  • How could this situation have been prevented,

avoided, or had a better outcome

  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Code alarm not heard
  • Confusion on roles/assignments
  • Multiple people accessing crash cart
  • Crash cart cluttered and overstocked
  • Clocks and monitors have different times
  • EMS not called promptly
  • Equipment not applied promptly, or used correctly
  • EKG strips/ vital signs not printed

Common Issues Identified during emergencies Checklists (Emergency Manuals)

  • Studies show rapid decline of ACLS skills after training
  • The checklist concept has been used in aviation for 80 years and

for anesthesia machine checks for 50 years

  • Checklist can significantly improve performance in emergency

situations

  • “If I were having a procedure and experienced an emergency, I

would want the checklist used.”

  • “The results of this study suggest that hospitals and ambulatory

surgical centers should consider implementation of checklists to increase the safety of surgical care.”

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Stanford Emergency Manual

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Pediatric Emergency Critical Event Checklists

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Adult and Pedi Emergencies rated by Specialty

Stanford Emergency Manual

Multi Eye GI ACLS (for Perioperative Setting) Asystole YES YES YES Bradycardia ‐ Unstable YES YES YES PEA YES YES YES SVT Unstable ‐ Tachycardia YES YES YES SVT Stable ‐ Tachycardia YES YES YES VF/VT YES YES YES Broad Differential Hypotension YES YES YES Hypoxemia YES YES YES Specific Critical Events Hypotension YES YES YES Hypoxemia YES YES YES Power Failure YES YES YES SVT Stable ‐ Tachycardia YES YES YES Myocardial Ischemia YES YES YES Oxygen Failure YES YES YES Bronchospasm YES YES YES Malignant Hyperthermia YES ? ? Anaphylaxis YES YES NO Delayed Emergence YES YES NO Fire ‐ Patient YES YES NO Difficult Airway ‐ Unanticipated YES ? NO Fire ‐ Airway YES ? NO Local Anesthetic Toxicity YES ? NO Hemorrhage ‐ MTG YES NO NO Pneumothorax YES NO NO Total Spinal Anesthesia YES NO NO Transfusion Reaction ? NO NO Venus Air Embolus ? NO NO TOTAL: 25 18 15

Pedi‐Crisis ‐ Critical Events Cards Multi Eye GI Hypoxia YES YES YES Bradycardia YES YES YES Hypertension YES YES YES Hypotension YES YES YES Tachycardia YES YES YES Hypoxemia YES YES YES Anaphylaxis YES YES YES Cardiac Arrest YES YES YES Malignant Hyperthermia YES YES ? Fire: Airway / OR YES YES NO Air Embolism YES YES NO Hyperkalemia YES YES NO Difficult Airway YES YES NO Local Anesthetic Toxicity YES YES YES Loss of Evoked Potentials ? ? ? Myocardial Ischemia ? ? ? Pulmonary Hypertension ? ? ? Transfusion & Reactions NO NO NO Trauma NO NO NO TOTAL: 14 14 9

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Emergency Training

  • Not a Mega Code Inservice or scenario
  • A realistic code scenario/ discussion module
  • Discuss scenarios and best actions to take for each
  • Focus on roles and responsibilities
  • Allow time to ask questions and discuss answers
  • Group discussions to identify solutions for issues

identified

  • Use realistic scenarios for your facility
  • Incorporate education, open discussion, group

planning to determine emergency procedures

  • Focus on roles and responsibilities of all

involved

  • Allow time for staff to ask questions and

discuss responses

  • Encourage group discussions to identify

solutions for issues identified

Emergency Training

  • Identify staff who have the most experience in emergency situations
  • Recognition of a patient in distress
  • Alarm parameters
  • Rapid Response Codes
  • What do you do when an emergency occurs?
  • Front Office Staff
  • Call 911, move family, notify center director, page overhead, copy

chart, wait outside for EMS

  • Admitting Staff
  • Assign staff for patients, send staff to assist with code
  • Procedure Room Staff
  • Complete only procedures already in progress, send staff to assist
  • Do not start new procedures until patient is transported out of

center

Discussion with Staff

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  • Recovery Room Staff
  • Usually first responders, determine minimum required to stay in

RR based on patients

  • Scope Room/ Sterile Processing Staff
  • Immediately become available to assist
  • Circumstances to consider
  • Time of day (early am with few staff, no MD, CRNA)
  • Day of the week (Saturday)
  • Age of patient (pediatric)
  • Location (waiting room)

Discussion with Staff Crash Cart Drawer Labeling Crash Cart Drawer Organization

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Crash Cart Drawer Organization

  • Review the list of roles and staff that can act in each role
  • Identify how the roles will be determined quickly and

efficiently

  • Prioritize the roles in order of importance
  • Encourage staff to cross-train to all areas
  • All staff need to be familiar with the crash cart- the same

person should not check the crash cart every month

  • Each anesthesia cart should be the same
  • Be flexible- each situation is unique and may have special

circumstances

Roles- discussion

  • Leaders
  • Leader of the Code/ Emergency: CRNA or MD- manages airway and

medications

  • Leader of the Team: Charge Nurse or designee, assigns Code Team Roles
  • Team
  • Airway assist, Ambu bag
  • Chest Compressions- 2 people: place back board, check pulses
  • Medications: 1-2 people: prepare and administer medications
  • Start 2nd IV, attach defibrillator AED
  • Crash Cart: stays at crash cart and hands out supplies/meds as called
  • Documentation
  • Code Sheet, BP continuous, print VS, EKG
  • Transfer form, patient information, H&P

Roles

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Center Leader/ Administrator

  • Ensure that code protocol has been initiated
  • Verify that EMS has been activated and are in-route
  • Move family to a private room/ area; update frequently
  • Medical Record is copied for transfer
  • ER is aware of transfer and patient condition
  • Physician order for transfer
  • Conduct staff debriefing immediately following incident
  • 1st nurse to respond…get crash cart
  • Print baseline EKG strip
  • Run baseline B/P check
  • Assist in placing backboard under patient
  • Apply AED/ defibrillator
  • Communicate EKG status to room…LOUDLY
  • Continue communicating EKG status
  • Continue EKG strips and B/P checks every minute

AED/ Monitor Person Role Cards

  • Can help identify team

members

  • Reminds each team

member of their responsibilities

  • Great for mock codes
  • and practices
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Role Cards (cont.) Communication Tools

  • SBAR
  • Situation- What is going on with the patient?
  • Background- What is the clinical background or context?
  • Assessment-What do I think the problem is?
  • Recommendation or Request- What would I do to correct it?
  • SBAR example for an emergency situation
  • Situation- 68 yo male for colonoscopy, experienced hypoxemia during

anesthesia, rapidly developed into hypotension, and respiratory arrest

  • Background- Cardiac history, hypertension, asthma, diabetes
  • Assessment- Possible cardiac or respiratory event?
  • Recommendation or Request- Stabilize patient, transport to hospital

Communication Tools

  • Call-Out: Used to communicate important or critical

information- informs all team members

  • Leader: “check femoral pulse”
  • Nurse: “no femoral pulse”
  • Leader: “Epinephrine 1 mg IV”
  • Nurse: “Epinephrine 1 mg IV at 2:08”
  • Leader: “Blood pressure”
  • Nurse: “BP is 87/46”
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Communication Tools

  • Check-Back: Communication loop involving a

sender initiating the message, a receiver accepting the message and providing feedback that the task had been completed:

  • Physician asks: “ Give Ephedrine 25 mg IV”
  • Nurse confirms: “Give Ephedrine 25 mg IV”
  • Physician checks back: “Correct”
  • Most important part of emergency preparedness training
  • Opportunity for feedback, suggestions, decisions
  • Encourage everyone to participate, ‘No idea is a bad idea’
  • “What went right?”
  • “What could have been done better?”
  • Share and discuss all emergency drill evaluations with

QAPI Committee, Governing Board

Emergency Drill Evaluation

  • Complete as soon as possible
  • Include all staff if possible
  • Include Medical and Anesthesia staff
  • Discuss what happened, what worked and what didn’t
  • Focus on the processes, not the people
  • Discuss possible suggestions and improvements
  • Review documentation
  • Be supportive‐ no finger pointing
  • The Center Leader can take notes, but others should not

Code Blue De-Briefing

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Take Aways

  • Use Emergency Manuals and checklists to assist staff with

emergencies

  • Educate staff on roles and responsibilities
  • Frequent drills maintain staff preparedness
  • Evaluate staff performance in emergency drills
  • Listen to staff suggestions for improvements
  • Include all staff in emergency drills‐ anesthesia, physicians,

techs and front office staff

Regular Emergency Drills and Crash Cart Organization can:

  • Educate staff of various roles and responsibilities
  • Maintain staff preparedness for emergencies
  • Improve patient outcomes
  • Increase staff confidence
  • Improve documentation
  • Improve team participation in emergency situations

Most importantly, they can save lives

Take Aways Questions, Comments, Discussion?

Laura Schneider, RN, CGRN, CASC laura.schneider@ AmSurg.com