Procedures

A-D

• Abdominal Compartment Pressure Monitoring 

  • Quick Checklist

• Acute Pain service link to website

  • CADD Epidural

  • PCA Quick Review

• Air venting from IV sets (for patients with cardiac shunt)

• Arterial Line Assessment, Monitoring and Dressing Change

• Aminoglycoside levels

• Amiodarone Administration by medical directive

• Atropine Administration under medical directive

• Blood Sampling from an Indwelling Line

• Blood Cultures

• Blood Gas Measurement

  • Understanding the use of venous blood gas measurements

• Bronchoscopy: list of frequently ordered tests

• Cardiac Output Measurement: Procedure

  • Quick checklist

• Central Venous Line Assessment, Monitoring and Dressing Change

  Chest Tube Removal Checklist

  • Link to LHSC procedure for chest tube monitoring and removal

• Colonic Irrigation for Clostridium Difficile

• Continuous EEG (CEEG)

• Continuous Lateral Rotation Therapy (CLRT)

• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

  • Blood Leak Detector Alarm: Sending Labs

• Procedure for Accessing and Connecting a Double Lumen Venous Dialysis Catheter

  • Checklist for Accessing/Connecting a Dialysis Catheter
• Procedure for Ending the CRRT Treatment and Blocking a Double Lumen Venous Dialysis Catheter
   
  • Checklist for Ending Treatment/Blocking a Dialysis Catheter

• Overview and tips for using citrate anticoagulation protocol

• Defibrillation

• Discharge or Transfer from CCTC

  Checklist for Discharge from CCTC to Home

  Preassessment for Discharge from CCTC to Home

  Medicine Transfer Process

  How to discontinue critical care orders at transfe

• Dressing change for central venous and peripheral arterial line

E-H

• Epinephrine Administration under medical directive

• Feeding Tube Insertion (Small Bowel Feeding Tube)

• Flotrac(TM) setup and charting

• Haemodynamic monitoring: System Set-up

• Head of Bed positioning

• Hypothermia Procedural Checklist

I-L

• ICP Drainage and Monitoring:

  • Codman information

    • Codman Microsensor: Pressure Monitoring

    • Fluid Filled Monitoring System: Pressure Monitoring with Standard Transducer

    • Intraparenchymal Catheter Insertion

    • Microsensor

    • Microsensor and MRI

    • Obtaining a sample of CSF

    • Troubleshooting ICP Monitoring Systems

• Pressure Monitoring:

  • Insertion of any intracranial pressure monitoring or drainage device: Quick guide to equipment selection, setup steps and insertion

• CSF Drainage:

  • Intraventricular Drainage: Setup of Codman EVD3 for the collection of CSF

  • Infection Control and Prevention LHSC/SJHC

• Intravenous insertion (peripheral)
  • Overview and tips for insertion of BD Nexiva in CCTC

• Level 1 Rapid Infuser link to assembly

• Lidocaine Administration  under medical directive

• Lumbar Drains:

  • Lumbar CSF monitoring and/or drainage for spinal cord injury prevention (thoracic aneurysm or orthospinal surgery)

  • Lumbar drainage for resolution of CSF leak (LHSC access only)

M-P

• Minnesota Tube

• Oral Care: for intubated patients

• MRI

  • Compatible tracheostomies

    • List of MRI compatible trachesostomies

    • List of MRI INCOMPATIBLE tracheostomies

• Nutritional supplements

• Prone Positioning:

  • Procedure for Turning Prone

  • Procedure for Turning Supine

  • CHECKlSTS:

    • Safety Checklist for PRONING and SUPINATION

    • Procedural Checklist for PRONING

    • Procedural Checklist for SUPINATION

• Pulmonary Artery Catheter:
  • New Set-up for PA and CVP (2 transducer no bridge)
  • Quick Checklist for Insertion
  • Quick Checklist for Measurement of Cardiac Outuput
  • Withdrawal of Pulmonary Artery Catheter from Wedged or Right Ventricular Position

• Supine Positioning (from prone):

  • Turning Supine

Q-T

• Removal of Vascular Catheters:

  • Central Venous Catheters (jugular, subclavian or femoral)

  • Femoral Arterial Lines

  • Peripheral Arterial Lines

  • Pulmonary Artery Catheter

• Restraint Use in CCTC

  • Link to LHSC restraint policy Policy Administration

• Sedation Assessment:

  • Use of the VAMAS

• Subglottic Secretion Drainage Tubes

• Small Bowel Feeding Tube Insertion

• Swan Ganz: quick checklist for setup and management

U-V

• Wound Management link to site

W-Z

Last Reviewed:  January 28, 2020

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