a surgical technology student is completing rotation at the clinical site’s central sterile processing department. The...

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 arrive 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 on the OR in 10 minutes, so the student must quickly work.

Considering the extrwmely limited amount of time available, what should be opened first, and what can be opened as the case progresses?

What medication is used to countersct the effects of heparin aodium if too much is administered of the effects of heparin sodium are no longer desired?

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