The Epic system provides functionality to support anesthesia providers and nursing staff when providing procedural care including preprocedure, intraprocedure, and postprocedure.

Resources

The following resources provide information on Anesthesia functionality.

• Anesthesia 2021 Spring Upgrade - (Handout) Anesthesia changes will be implemented on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
• 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 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 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.

Return to Epic A-Z