crash cart

noun

: a cart stocked with emergency medical equipment, supplies, and drugs for use by medical personnel especially during efforts to resuscitate a patient experiencing cardiac arrest

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In the rare event that something goes wrong, there are crash carts on hand and an emergency department and intensive care unit a few floors away. —

Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2024 Abby yelled as nurses began giving shots of epinephrine from their crash cart. —

Brenda Goodman, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022 Staff would have to try to keep an eye on patients through windshields, then rush into the gravel parking lot with a crash cart and epinephrine if someone had an allergic reaction. —

Elizabeth Miller/undark, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2021 Think of emergency rate cuts as the crash cart in the emergency room, shocking the patient back to life. —

Christine Romans, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020 Nurse Kirsten Benjamin pulled crash carts from closed sections of the hospital to the temporary triage bay. —

Melanie Evans, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017