Fire Safety Tool Kit
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Purpose
The AORN Fire Safety Tool Kit contains tools and resources to help perioperative personnel promote fire safety, plan effective response strategies, and develop department-specific evidence-based policies and procedures to protect perioperative patients and team members.
Recognition of Task Force/Committee/AORN Nurse
Compiled by Renae Wright, DNP, RN, CNOR, Perioperative Practice Specialist at AORN and lead author of the Guideline for a Safe Environment of Care
Components
Tools
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Fire Drill Evaluation Tool (docx)
Cognitive Aids
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Fire Triangle (pdf)
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Fire Safety Poster (pdf)
Resources
Educational Presentation
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Fire Safety in the OR (pptx)
AORN Journal Articles
- Perioperative fire prevention and mitigation
- Conducting a successful fire drill in the OR
- Preparing for fires in health care settings
- Recognizing fuel sources in the OR
- Using virtual reality to improve perioperative skills
- Ensuring the safe use of high alcohol-based skin prep solutions
- Surgical fire safety: An ambulatory surgical center quality improvement project
- Safety considerations for laser surgery of the airway
- Disaster planning: Preparing for OR fires
- Fire in the hole! – An OR fire
- Crisis management of fire in the OR
- A tailored approach to fire safety in the OR
- Empowering providers to eliminate surgical fires
- Using simulation for OR team training on fire safety
Video
Videos are for purchase through AORN’s partner, CineMed.
Fire Safety Overview
Perioperative team members will have increased knowledge regarding the appropriate actions to take to prevent and extinguish an operating room (OR)/procedural fire; protect patients, personnel, and the environment; and decrease the risk of perioperative fire.
After reading and assimilating this material, the participant will be able to:
- identify preventive fire measures in the perioperative environment;
- identify types of fires;
- discuss the steps to extinguish a fire in the perioperative setting;
- describe how to smother a fire, and
- identify appropriate evacuation routes in the perioperative setting
Accreditation
Read AORN's accreditation statement.
Content Reuse Policy
Users are not permitted to use this content for commercial purposes. Users are permitted to copy and paste content and adapt it for use in their work settings. Permission for other uses may be sought directly from AORN, Inc., located in Denver, Colorado (USA), by contacting the Publications Department by email at [email protected] or by fax (303) 750-3441.
Copyright
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Notice
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