A surgical technology student is completing rotation at the clinical site’s central sterile processing department. The student is notified by the preceptor that a patient has just arrived in the emergency department with a gunshot wound to the chest, and the student needs to assemble a case cart containing everything that will - or might - be needed for the case. The patient will be in the OR in 10 minutes, so the student must quickly work.    What equipment must be in the room for this case?

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A surgical technology student is completing rotation at the clinical site’s central sterile processing department. The student is notified by the preceptor that a patient has just arrived in the emergency department with a gunshot wound to the chest, and the student needs to assemble a case cart containing everything that will - or might - be needed for the case. The patient will be in the OR in 10 minutes, so the student must quickly work. 

 

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The type of physical trauma that results due to the bullet or other projectile from a forearm is referred to as a gunshot wound. They are major, violent, complex, and traumatic injuries involving complex and challenging treatment and first-aid. 

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