Pediatrics

Fire: OR (non-airway)

Diagnosis

Fire: OR (non-airway)

Diagnosis

Fire: OR (non-airway)

  1. Simultaneously:

    • Stop flow of medical gases
    • Remove drapes and all burning and flammable material from patient
    • Make one attempt to extinguish fire by pouring saline on fire

  2. If fire not extinguished on 1st attempt, use CO2 fire extinguisher

  3. If fire persists:

    • Activate fire alarm
    • Remove patient from OR
    • Confine fire by closing all OR doors
    • Turn off O2 gas supply to OR

  4. Maintain ventilation. Assess for inhalation injury

  5. Consider input from ENT, pulmonary, plastic surgery

  6. Consider PICU

  7. Consider Fire Phone Number

  8. If fire not self-contained, shut off gases to affected OR

    • Verify gases are not shut off to adjacent rooms

  9. Impound all equipment and supplies for later inspection

Patient weight

Between 0.5 kg and 120 kg

Reset the checklist?

Checked steps, the timer and this crisis log are cleared. The patient’s weight is kept.

Finish the crisis?

The timer pauses, and you can review the case and the event log.