ICV Surgery Checklist

ICV Surgery Checklist

Autoclave

• autoclavable blue box containing at least 1 pair of very fine forceps
• screws and cannulae
• fishing weight retractors
• 1 cloth drape
• 1 stainless box (wrapped in a cloth drape) containing:
  • at least 1 pair of coarse forceps
  • at least 1 pair of fine blue forceps
  • sharp-sharps & blunt-sharps
  • staple puller & stapler
  • drill bit for Dremel (2.3 mm)
  • needle holders
  • scalpel handle

• box of icv caps
• 2 glass dishes (for 10% bleach and 70% EtOH)
• 2-500 ml beakers (for saline)
• 2-500 ml bottles of physiologic saline
• cotton swabs
• gauze squares
• staples

Other Materials

Pre-Operative

• gauze squares
• stereotax apparatus
• eye ointment
• betadine and 70% EtOH in wash bottles
• clippers
• dustbuster
• cover gowns and masks
• appropriately sized sterile surgical gloves

Intra-Operative

• sterile disposable drapes
• absorbent pads (at least 2)
• lab tape
• 500 ml 10% bleach
• 500 ml 70% EtOH

• #10 scalpel blades
• fishing weights for retraction
• hydrogen peroxide
• super glue gel

• Dremel
• 2 manual hand drills
• gel foam
• tubing for “washers”
• screw driver
• swabs with wooden handles
• Pasteur pipette and bulb
• denture materials (powder and solvent)
• 3 cc syringes, 25 ga needles
• 2-0 vicryl

Post-Operative

• microwave
• hot packs
• 20 cc syringes, 21 ga needles
• 5% dextrose

Clean Up

Clean instruments that are autoclaved with enzymatic cleaner, and soak in instrument milk for at least 10 minutes. Do not rinse. Dry other instruments with EtOH.