EMERGENCY MEDICATIONS
(RED LOCK BOX, Lowes Home Improvement, Winston Salem NC)
20% LIPID EMULSION 250CC
AMIODARONE 150MG AMP
ATROPINE 1MG SYRINGE
EPINEPHRINE IMG SYRINGE
ETOMIDATE 40MG SYRINGE
SUCCINYLCHOLINE 200MG VIAL
VASOPRESSIN 20UNIT VIAL
The RAAPM area would be poorly equipped without ready access to routine medications. This access is provided by our Accudose machine. Stocked at least daily, all medications administered are signed out to individual patients and are accounted for separately from operating room anesthesia meds. The contents of our Accudose are listed alphabetically below. This cabinet stores as many as sixty vials of some medications (midazolam) or as little as five of others (EREM). The Accudose is centrally located behind the schedule wall, and next to a medication preparation area with lockable drawers for controlled substances. Our institution has recently acquired a syringe-filling robot which has yet to be adapted to syringes above 10 cc or admixtures of medications. We are ready for it when it is because drawing up and labeling medications for regional anesthesia can be a time consuming task prone to human error.
ROUTINE MEDICATIONS
(ACCUDOSE, McKesson Inc. San Francisco CA)
ACETAMINOPHEN 500 MG TAB
ATROPINE SULFATE INJ (0.4MG/ML) 20ML VIAL
BUPIVACAINE HCL 0.25% (2.5MG/ML) 30 ML VIAL
BUPIVACAINE HCL 0.5% (5MG/ML)30 ML VIAL
CELECOXIB (CELEBREX) 200 MG CAPSULE
CHLOROPROCAINE 2% (2MG/ML in a preservative free-brown bottle)
CHLOROPROCAINE 1.5% (1.5MG/ML in a preservative free-brown bottle)
CLONIDINE 50MCG SYRINGES (pharmacy prepared in 2ML aliquots)
DEXAMETHASONE NA PHOS INJ (4MG/1 ML) VIAL
DEXTROSE INJ 50% IN WATER 50 ML VIAL
DROPERIDOL (2.5MG/ML) 2 ML VIAL
EPHEDRINE SULFATE (50MG/ML) 1 ML AMP
EPINEPHRINE (1MG/ML) 1 MG AMP
ESMOLOL HCL (10MG/ML) 10 ML VIAL
EREM (DEPODUR) (10MG/1ML) VIAL (EKR, Cedar Knolls NJ)
FENTANYL CITRATE (100MCG/2ML) 100 MCG AMP
FENTANYL CITRATE (250MCG/5ML) 250 MCG AMP
FLUMAZENIL (0.5MG/5ML) VIAL
GABAPENTIN (NEURONTIN) 600 MG TAB
GLYCOPYRROLATE (0.2MG/ML) 1ML VIAL
HYDRALAZINE HCL (APRESOLINE) (20MG/1 ML) VIAL
HYDROMORPHONE HCL (1MG/ML) 1 MG SYR
IBUPROFEN 200 MG TAB
KETAMINE HCL (10MG/ML) (Pharmacy prepared in 2 ML aliquots)
KETOROLAC (30MG/ML) 1 ML INJ
LABETALOL HCL INJ (100MG/20ML) 100 MG VIAL
LIDOCAINE (PF) 2% 10 ML AMP
MEPIVACAINE HCL 1% (10MG/ML) 30 ML VIAL
MEPIVACAINE HCL 1.5% (15MG/ML) 30 ML VIAL
MEPIVACAINE HCL 2% (20MG/ML) 20 ML VIAL
METHADONE 10MG TABLETS
METOCLOPRAMIDE HCL (10MG/2ML) VIAL
MIDAZOLAM HCL (2MG/2ML) 2 MG VIAL
MIDAZOLAM HCL (1MG/ML) 5 MG VIAL
MORPHINE SULFATE (ASTRAMORPH-PF) (0.5MG/ML) 10 ML AMP
NALBUPHINE 10MG VIAL
NALOXONE HCL INJ (0.4MG/ML) 1 ML AMP
ONDANSETRON (ZOFRAN) INJ (4MG/2ML) VIAL
ONDANSETRON 8 MG TAB DIS LN
OXY-GUM SINGLE DOSE STICK, CHEWABLE (K. Fujita Associates Inc, Japan)
PHENYLEPHRINE HCL 10MG/ML 1 ML VIAL
PREGABALIN (LYRICA) 75 MG CAPSULE
PROMETHAZINE HCL INJ (25MG/ML) 25 MG INJ
PROPOFOL 200MG AMP
ROPIVACAINE HCL 0.5% (5MG/ML) 30ML VIAL
RANITIDINE 50MG VIAL
ROPIVACAINE HCL 1% (20MG/20ML) VIAL
SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE 1.5MG/72HR PATCH TD72
SODIUM BICARBONATE 8.4% (50MEQ/50ML) 50 ML INJ
SODIUM CHLORIDE (PF) 0.9% 10 ML VIAL
SODIUM CITRATE 30ML CUP
TETRACAINE 20MG LYOPHILIZED VIAL
WATER FOR INJECTION, STERILE 10 ML VIAL