Pre-Op
Performing a preoperative assessment
MetaVision facilitates your preoperative assessment using an interactive electronic form designed around your workflow. The form displays patient data imported from hospital information systems. Patient demographics, patient health, anesthetic history, allergies, current medications and data from previous surgeries and stays can all be displayed. Using the form, you can order pre-op tests and medications, complete your perioperative assessment and create an anesthesia plan. This entire process can be performed at the day clinic, or at remote sites via the web. Pre-op data can later be accessed on the day of surgery in the OR.
Preparing the patient
In the holding area, MetaVision simplifies preparing the patient for anesthesia via a customized checklist. Patient information, like vital signs from monitors and IV fluids, are displayed on screens that reflect your workflow. With one touch, you can access pre-op assessment information such as lab results and X-rays, as well as prescribe medications. Notifications indicate patient readiness for surgery, facilitating accurate OR scheduling.
Intra-Op
Documenting induction
MV-OR streamlines induction documentation and lets you focus on the clinical process and patient care. From the start of anesthesia, MetaVision automatically captures monitor and other device data every minute, populating the patient anesthesia record. Touchscreen displays and a time stamping functionality let you quickly indicate the exact induction time. You can also retrospectively document the induction and intubation details.
Reviewing patient condition
MetaVision’s automatic data capture creates a comprehensive case summary resulting in an anesthesia record, populated with actionable information. Special data views can be created to reflect the needs of specific surgical disciplines and types of cases. You can zoom in on specific points in time for more detail.
Documenting medications & events
A touch screen and a dynamic tool bar help you enter medication sets with a single touch. Fluids and medications you administer, such as blood products and antibiotic prophylaxis, are displayed on the screen for review. Administration is documented with a single touch or registered by scanning bar-coded syringes.
Surgical events are registered by simply touching the screen at the time of occurrence. In fact, in just five touches you should be able to record the complete chronological sequence of events, thus rapidly documenting short cases, which makes for quick turnover. After you care for the patient, follow-up treatment plans can be selected from pre-defined order sets (such as post thoracic order set).
Planning transfer to Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
MetaVision also enables post-op planning. Running infusions can be reviewed and documented while pre-defined sets of recovery orders can be easily recorded in one click. The system automatically cross checks any order against registered allergies and sensitivities. It can also access pharmacy safety guidelines and supports co-signature requirements for additional supervision of safety and costs. Meanwhile, treatment protocols can be registered via the system for reference in the PACU. Reminders for the user to enter all required documentation help create a complete record and ensure a seamless transfer to post-op.
Generating a complete anesthesia record
MetaVision generates a complete and accurate anesthesia record populated with all data associated with the course of anesthesia. This ensures a smooth hand-off and means that all billable events are registered.
Post-Op
View the patient file
Once the patient is in the PACU, using MetaVision means you can view their entire anesthesia record and document incoming data from medical devices should this be needed.
Follow up on medication
The MetaVision order management modules simplify review, titration, and validation of orders that were planned by the anesthesiologist. These can be viewed as a Cardex, list, or Gantt chart, and Order reminders help ensure on-time delivery of medications.
Patient discharge
Discharging a patient is quick and easy. Pre-configured forms, including clinical scores, are automatically populated with patient information, helping you decide when the patient is ready to leave the unit. You simply review and edit the information, add future care recommendations, then discharge the patient and print a discharge report.
