Anaesthesia
Simulator
The drug cart
Set the patient, open a drawer, and draw drugs up. Doses recalculate in millilitres out of the real ampoule, labels print in their ISO colour, and the cart argues with you when a drug is wrong for this patient.
Patient
Factors
ISO 26825 syringe labels
The colours, and what they mean
User-applied syringe labels are colour-coded by drug class, not by drug. That is the point: in a crisis you reach for a colour, and the colour has to be right.
- Induction agentYellow
- BenzodiazepineOrange
- Muscle relaxantFluorescent red
- OpioidBlue
- VasopressorViolet
- AnticholinergicGreen
- Local anaestheticGrey
- Antiemetic / tranquilliserSalmon
- OtherWhite with black text
The detail people miss
- Relaxant antagonists are red with white diagonal stripes.
- Opioid antagonists are blue with white diagonal stripes.
- Hypotensive agents are violet with white diagonal stripes.