a little help on commonly used medications

[StakRN]

Hi ! I am new to the OR - about 3 weeks into orientation, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out and make a list of what the commonly used medications are in the OR. I haven't got the chance to really look over the meds in our med room. I know that I would need to look up meds before giving them or putting them on the field but I would just like an idea of what is commonly used so I can look them up on my spare time and have the info ready on hand when I need them.

So far I know of

1. Marcaine - to inject to trocar sites

2. Marcain with epi

3. Lidocaine

4. Fibrin

Thank you very much in advance..

[mikethern]

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[mikethern]

Used on the surgical field:

1% lidocaine plain.

1% lidocaine with epinephrine.

0.25% marcaine plain.

0.25% marcaine with epinephrine.

0.5% marcaine plain.

0.5% marcaine with epinephrine.

mineral oil.

thrombin.

gelfoam.

surgicell.

bacitracin irrigation.

kanamycin irrigation.

indigo carmine.

methalene blue.

cocaine.

morphine.

duramorph.

papavarine.

bacitracin ointment.

betadine ointment.

betadine solution.

[kstec, LPN]

ephedrine

epinephrine

versed

propofol

scopolomine

narcan

cefzol

mefoxin

dilaudid

demerol

morphine

zofran

diphenhydramine

gentamycin

vancomycin

mannitol

baci/poly irrigation

ropivacaine

pentothol

suprane

norcuron

quelicin

vecuronium

I do not know what all of these of used for but when I worked as a pharmacy technician in an OR satellite pharmacy, these were some of the common stocked meds in the rooms and d meds requested by the anestesiolgists(sp). Hope it helps and if this is not what your are looking for, I'm sorry. I've been a LPN for a little over a year now so I obviously don't deal with any of the above, but do remember from pharmacy.

[ebear, BSN, RN]

A lot of the drugs listed by kstec are for anesthesia use only ie: suprane, pentothal, paralytic agents, ephedrine, mannitol etc.) I'm sure she stocked those meds. as a pharmacy tech., but you would never be involved with the ones involving general anesthesia. I would say be familiar with the antibiotics, locals, heparin (and protamine), epinephrine, papaverine, and thrombin. Those are the more common ones you will use. (oh, and decadron, solu medrol, or any eye meds)

[StakRN]

thanks for the replies..i would surely look these up ...it will be good to familiarize myself with these medications as I haven't encountered them before in my school clinicals...

[DNRme]

While you will not be administering anesthesia meds, it is your responsibility to know the effects of the meds to the patient. You cannot assist with induction/emergence, give report to pacu, etc. if you do not know what to expect.

I would go through your OR's med cabinet (or med adm. system) and make a list. Look a few up whenever you have a chance. Don't forget abx so you can be aware of allergies to meds in the same families.