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should stock a minimum of 36 vials of dantrolene sodium for injection. If triggering agents aren't used, then dantrolene need not be present. Still, there have been reports of MH episodes occurring even with the use of "safe" agents.
Andrea Fann, administrator of the Orthopaedic South Surgical Center in Morrow, Ga., says her surveyor suggested an additional battery backup light in each area where they administer anesthesia blocks. "We ended up adding an emergency ballast to all 12 of our bays, as well as our ORs and treatment room," she says.
The surveyor at Sutter Tracy (Calif.) Community Hospital helped the facility revise its laryngoscope blade policy to take it more complete. "We implemented it immediately," says Cheryl Steensma RN, BSN, Sutter Tracy's policy and procedure coordinator. "Our surveyor really wanted to work with us as far as evidence-based practices and patient safety goes, so overall it was a good outcome."
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