Intubation Box Set-Up

How to Set-up Intubation Equipment

If you are going to set-up intubation equipment prior to actually needing to tube a patient, you must do it in a way that indicates the stuff is still usable. Otherwise, at shift change, the nurses need to discard all the stuff you prepared.
	Tube Boxes Let’s start with tube boxes…You definitely want to get in there and make sure the bulbs are working (they often are not). Also set up a tube with stylet and syringe (8-0 please!!!!!!).
	So rip off the white tag, but don’t throw it away. Do what you need to in the box and then close it up.
	Now that the box is prepped, cut off the extra pieces of tie on top of the number plate.
	Thread the remaining tie through the hole to the left of the number bar. If the white tag is not on the box, the nurses are required to send it down to get resterilized at the end of the shift. This pisses them off; it does not matter what you have written on a piece of white tape and placed upon the box: no white tag, no happiness.
	Suction By all means set-up and test the suction set-up, but leave the yankeur (sp?) in the packaging. This way we know it is unused.
	BVMs Again, set these up, attach to O2, and attach the mask; then place them back in their packaging. You can then hang it on the O2 valve. We know bags set up this way are still unused.
Thank You!!