Treatment
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Table 6. Referring Hospital Checklist for the Patient With a
Suspected or Confirmed Ruptured Aneurysm
Referring Hospital Emergency Department Checklist
❑
Physician-to-physician phone handoff
❑
Intravenous peripheral access
❑
Continuous vital sign monitoring
❑
Permissive hypotension (to maintain a mental status and target systolic
pressure of 70–90 mmHg )
❑
Transfer of obtained images (either by upload or CD/DVD)
Table 7. Receiving Hospital Personnel Alert Checklist for
Management of the Patient With a Suspected or
Confirmed Ruptured Aneurysm
Receiving Hospital Personnel Alert Checklist
❑
Emergency department attending physician
❑
Emergency department nursing
❑
Vascular surgery attending physician and team (including vascular
technologist)
❑
Anesthesiolog y team
❑
Operating room charge nurse
❑
Vascular technologist
❑
Admitting/bed control
❑
Chaplaincy
