Vasc-Alert User Documentation
Integrating Access Events into the Patient Record
Vasc-Alert provides a suite of tools to integrate additional information into the patient record. By logging referrals and interventions you complete the cycle begun when you review the reports. You can also include notes about the access or about individual treatments.
Referrals, interventions and other access events logged into Vasc-Alert appear in the online Patient Detail report as part of the patient’s record, enhancing tracking and analysis. Incorporating this information into the Vasc-Alert record ensures that clinical staff examining future results will have access to the patient's prior access history.
The Vasc-Alert Referral Module
Facilities that do not have an existing system for creating referrals can generate them directly from Vasc-Alert using the Vasc-Alert Referral Module. The Referral Module provides a convenient way for you to generate referrals for your patients without having to leave Vasc-Alert. The module creates an online form prepopulated with patient information. When you have finished filling in the referral form, the module creates a referral package consisting of a fax cover sheet, the online form, and the most recent Patient Detail report. You can then fax the report to the Access Center, Radiology Department or Surgeon, or send it with the patient.
Download a sample referral package (PDF format)
When you create a referral, it is listed in the online Patient Detail report. This gives you the opportunity to check the effectiveness of the intervention by looking for changes in VAPR, AAPR, and in the average blood flow rate, venous pressure and arterial pressure. The referral can also be accessed from the Referrals List.
Find out more about the Referral Module
Logging referrals from your own system
Your facility may already be working with an existing system for creating referrals. If this is the case, you may still want to log a few basic facts about referrals. By adding a few notes such as the date of referral, the indication, procedure ordered, and where the procedure will occur these referrals will still show up in the Patient Detail Report and in the Referrals list.
Logging interventions and other access events
To provide a complete history of the access, you can also add information about interventions and other access events to the Vasc-Alert record. Intervention information can be added directly from the referral form, or entered independently and linked to the referral later.
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