Anesthesia
The Epic system provides functionality to support anesthesia providers and nursing staff when providing procedural care including preprocedure, intraprocedure, and postprocedure.
Resources
Resources
The following resources provide information on Anesthesia functionality
- ANE Acute Pain Service - (Handout) A new ANE Acute Pain Service login department will give providers and nurses access to a shared Handoff tool. Providers will use the same tool to write block notes on inpatients and OR patients, and charges will be dropped from Consult and Progress notes.
- Anesthesia Bedside External Cephalic Version (ECV) - (Handout) Anesthesia workflows and documentation for bedside external cephalic version (ECV) procedures are explained.
- Anesthesia Blood Administration Trifold - (Handout) Reviews the Anesthesia Blood Administration workflow in Epic.
- Anesthesia Central Line Insertion Checklist - (Handout) Before a Central Line Insertion begins in a procedural area, a staff member will document the results of the “timeout” that is performed (in accordance with policy PC-PCI-05.41). Depending on the type of procedure being performed, this documentation may cause an additional group of rows to appear on the flowsheet for staff to complete.
- Anesthesia Electronic Consents for Inpatient (Bedside) Procedures - (Handout) A consent must be obtained for certain inpatient (bedside) procedures.
- Anesthesia Inpatient (Bedside) Procedures - (Handout) Create a procedure note for any inpatient bedside procedure performed.
- Anesthesia OB Workflows - (Handout) Anesthesia providers will follow specific workflows for OB patients.
- Anesthesia Post Procedure Workflow - (Handout) The post procedure workflow will improve the timing on when the Post Anesthesia note is written to ensure the patient is able to participate.
- Anesthesia Preprocedure At a Glance - (Handout) Use the At a Glance sections in the Preprocedure navigator to efficiently complete your review of patient documentation.
- Anesthesia Reviewing and Documenting Difficult Airway - (Handout) Anesthesia providers will follow specific steps to document difficult airway.
- Beaker Lab Collection - Anesthesia (BLC901) - (eLearning: 5 min) OR Beaker Lab Collection - Anesthesia - (Handout) The Beaker Lab Collection workflows for Anesthesiologist are reviewed.
- Blood Administration for Anesthesia (BECS901) - (eLearning: 2 min) The standard blood administration workflow for Anesthesia.
- Device Data Troubleshooting - (Handout) If device data auto validation has stopped, Anesthesia providers can follow steps in Epic to manually validate and turn on auto validation.
- Editing/Updating Pre-op Evaluation, Anesthesia Plan, and Post-Anesthesia Notes - (Handout) Specific steps must be followed when editing Anesthesia notes to ensure duplicate notes are not created.
- Inpatient MRI with Anesthesia – Anesthesia Provider - (Handout) Anesthesia Providers will be able to view orders for Inpatient MRI procedures in the depot and assist with the scheduling process. This document outlines the entire process.
- Inpatient MRI with Anesthesia - Clerk - (Handout) Anesthesia/OR Clerks will be able to view orders for Inpatient MRI procedures in the depot and assist with the scheduling process. This document outlines the entire process.
- Inpatient MRI with Anesthesia – Provider - (Handout) Providers have several options for viewing the scheduled date/time of a Radiology procedure.
- OB Anesthesia Clinic - (Handout) A specific login department and clinic schedule are used when seeing patients in the OB Anesthesia Clinic. In addition, specific documentation needs to be completed to close the visit.
- Type and Screen Process for Anesthesia (BECS902) - (eLearning: 5 min) The process for ordering and collecting a Type and Screen by Anesthesia.
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