- Equipment/supplies for starting an intravenous line (14-, 16-, 18-, and 20-gauge peripheral venous catheter, 1 L Lactated Ringer's solution for injection, intravenous tubing, four-way stopcock, tape)
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- Urinary catheter kit, urimeter
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- Assorted sizes of sterile gloves, including elbow-length gloves
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- Vaginal retractors, including a long right-angle retractor
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- Sterile speculum, long weighted speculum
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- Vaginal packs, 2 by 2 and 4 by 4 sponge gauze packs, gauze bandage rolls
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- Balloon catheter kit for intrauterine tamponade
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- Sterile utility bowl, 20 and 60 mL syringes, irrigation water
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- Appropriate sutures for cervical and vaginal laceration repair and for uterine compression sutures
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- Freestanding mobile task light, battery-powered headlamp
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- Illustrations showing how to perform relevant procedures (eg, uterine compression, uterine artery ligation, intrauterine balloon placement, replacement of inverted uterus)
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- Equipment/supplies for drawing blood (eg, syringes; needles; red, green, blue, and tiger top tubes; alcohol prep pads; tourniquet) for laboratory studies (eg, type and cross, coagulation studies, CBC, platelets, electrolytes, ionized calcium, potassium) with prewritten lab and blood bank requisition orders; instructions on how to order tests and blood and how to activate the massive transfusion protocol
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- Adult oxygen nonrebreather mask
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- Tubing and filter for blood transfusion
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- Equipment for warming irrigation and intravenous fluids
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- Medications:
- Kit for transabdominal intramyometrial injection of carboprost under ultrasound guidance: 20 mL syringe, 20 mL sterile saline for injection, 6 inch 20-gauge and 6 inch 22-gauge amniocentesis needles
- Misoprostol, five 200 mcg tablets
- Oxytocin, 10 to 40 units per 500 to 1000 mL NS 1 bag
- Methylergonovine, 0.2 mg/mL 1 ampule (requires refrigeration)
- Carboprost, 250 mcg/mL 1 ampule (requires refrigeration)
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