crash cart

crash cart

The cart of medical equipment used when a patient "crashes" (experiences cardiac arrest). Get a crash cart in here, this patient needs immediate attention!
See also: cart, crash
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crash cart

n. a nickname for the hospital cart that carries equipment used to attempt to restore a heartbeat, such as a defibrilator. Get the crash cart to third west.
See also: cart, crash
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • cart before the horse, put the
  • put the cart before the horse
  • in the cart
  • crash out
  • honey cart
  • wheel around
  • bang into
  • by all accounts
  • by/from all accounts
  • bang in (sick)
References in periodicals archive
The location monitoring of important assets, such as medication and emergency equipment supplied crash carts, in real time and over time enables hospital staff to tackle safety problems and increase efficiency, thereby reducing costs while improving patient outcomes.
Students were familiarized with identical crash carts to those currently used throughout the hospital.
Development of the virtual crash cart described in this article was supported by a faculty research grant from the University of Texas at Tyler.
* Always ensure that crash carts (or similar storage units) are organized and equipped with all the resources needed to handle an emergency situation in your facility.
The dialysis crash cart will incorporate a water filtration system that will produce medical quality water.
If they disappear even for a second, husband has to wheel in a crash cart to resuscitate me.
This cart's crash cart design allows simultaneous access by multiple users.
I spearheaded a redesign of the crash carts and rapid sequence intubation modules, to improve access and ease of use in critical situations.
27, 2016, of potential safety risks associated with battery-powered mobile medical carts, noting that it is aware of reports of "explosion, fires, smoking, or overheating of equipment that required hospital evacuations associated with the batteries in these carts." Battery-powered mobile medical carts include crash carts, medication dispensing carts, and carts that carry and power medical devices for point of care, barcode scanners, and patient monitoring.
US-based hospital supply chain services firm LeeSar in Fort Myers, Florida has selected US-based hospital intralogistics automation specialist Aethon's MedEx TraySafe product to streamline their medication tray and kit processing for improving safety and compliance of preconfigured trays used in crash carts, Aethon said on Friday.
Equipment will include hospital beds, crash carts, an AED trainer, CPR trainers, mobile medication center and audiovisual equipment with recording capabilities.
The medical community counts on rechargeable betteries to power everything from life-saving medical equipment like portable defibrillators, heart monitors, vital sign analyzers, life support machinery, xray machines, wheelchairs and medical crash carts to communication equipment such as cell phones, laptop computers and two-way radios.