Ambu bags (inpt)

[LouisVRN, RN]

Do you have one in every room, one in the code cart, or none? I'm primarily wanting to know about inpatient med/surg and tele units.

TIA.

Just wondering as last night, no one could find one on our unit and it was an urgent situation. Will definitely be bringing this up to management. The RT was nice enough to go down and take one from another floor after the fact...but a lot of "what ifs" surfaced.

[TakeOne]

Do you have one in every room, one in the code cart, or none? I'm primarily wanting to know about inpatient med/surg and tele units.

When I've worked in med/surg, we've had them in every room (two in every room for semi-private rooms), plus one on the code cart and another in the supply room.

[PediLove2147, BSN, RN]

When I've worked in med/surg, we've had them in every room (two in every room for semi-private rooms), plus one on the code cart and another in the supply room.

Same with the unit I work.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

When I've worked in med/surg, we've had them in every room (two in every room for semi-private rooms), plus one on the code cart and another in the supply room.

Ditto

[shiccy]

We have tons of them in the med rooms (we have two and both are stocked). We also have one in every room that has a vent and one on the code cart.

It seems like this is something that should be included on your code cart checklist as things it has on it - we have to check ours (and I'm not kidding) AT LEAST DAILY, and (quite honestly) we tend to do it twice a day... If stuff is missing, it's replaced. If the code cart is NOT checked, heads don't necessarily roll, but it's definitely a write-up-able offence for the people in charge.

BTW: The people that do this is typically the unit clerks. They do a great job at it, too ... they just have to know what the heck an ambu bag is!

[chloecatrn]

When I've worked in med/surg, we've had them in every room (two in every room for semi-private rooms), plus one on the code cart and another in the supply room.

This.

[dthfytr, ADN, LPN, RN, EMT-B, EMT-I]

You can never have too many ambu bags, too few managers, or answer a call light too quickly.

[mjjlRN]

We have one on the code cart. We do NOT have one in each room at the hospital I currently work. I have brought this up with my manager, requesting one in each room, or at least some kind of one-way valve mask resucitator in each room for mouth - to - mask breathsk and was told that it was too expensive. I was unable to reason with her, as she stated that it is on the code cart, and that should be enough. I envy those of you with one in each room!

[casi, ASN, RN]

We have face masks in each room.

We then have an ambu bag on the crash cart and several in our supply room

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

We have one in every room, several on the crash cart, and one in the break room, oddly enough. I guess if a staff member decides to stop breathing on their break we can revive them and get them back to work within 30 minutes.

[Larry77, RN]

Every time I go to a code on the floor we get them off of the crash cart they have up there...but they may be in the room as well. Last one I went to they didn't even have suction set up in the room, so we had to use the portable suction on the crash cart too. Good ol' crash carts :-)

[diane227, LPN, RN]

It is my STRONG recommendation that every room have a suction set up, suction tubing, Yankar suction, ambu bag with mask at the bedside. This is especially important when you have patients who are having trouble swallowing or who are on aspiration precautions.