You are the nurse caring for a trauma victim in the emergency department (ED). Your patient requires emergency surgery. Before the patient leaves the ED for the operating room, the patient goes into cardiac arrest
You assist in the resuscitation and proceed to release your patient to the operating room staff. When can you perform your preoperative assessment?
A) When the patient is being stabilized after admission to the ED
B) When you are taking your patient to the OR
C) When assisting with the resuscitation
D) When calling the code
Ans: C
Feedback: The only opportunity for preoperative assessment may take place at the same time as resuscitation in the emergency department. Option A is incorrect; the decision to do surgery has not yet been made. Option B is incorrect; you cannot take the patient to the OR until the assessment has been made. Option D is incorrect; calling the code takes precedence over making a preoperative assessment.
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