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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That includes chemotherapy treatments, sedatives, antibiotics and medications on hospital crash carts.
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Victoria Malis, ProPublica, 7 July 2025
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
Nurse Kirsten Benjamin pulled crash carts from closed sections of the hospital to the temporary triage bay.
—Melanie Evans, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
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Victoria Malis, ProPublica, 7 July 2025
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
Nurse Kirsten Benjamin pulled crash carts from closed sections of the hospital to the temporary triage bay.
—Melanie Evans, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
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“Crash cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash%20cart. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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