Weekly Patient Detail Reports

Vasc-Alert issues three sets of Patient Detail reports.  One set covers patients who have been issued a VAPR or AAPR alert within the previous 30 days. The Patient Detail reports make it easy to identify patients with increasing trends or consistently elevated VAPR or AAPR values, so timely referrals can be made.

The second set of Patient Detail reports includes patients who are eligible for intra-access pressure calculations, but have not been issued a VAPR or AAPR alert within the previous 30 days. Even though a patient has not had a recent alert, the clinical staff may want to review the report to identify early trends before the patient moves onto the alert list.  Staff can also review other non-alerting patients that they may have concerns about for other indicators of potential problems such as a drop in blood flow rate.

Each patient's report has five graphs, showing 6 months of data for VAPR and AAPR calculations, average session blood flow rate, average session venous pressure and average session negative arterial pressure.  A moving average is displayed on top of the actual values, to make trending easier to see. Alerts on the top two graphs are indicated with red vertical lines. The table on the right side of the report shows the numeric values for the most recent 30 treatments.

The third set of Patient Detail reports includes patients who have one or more treatment on a CVC within the previous 30 days.  VAPR and AAPR calculations are not done for CVC treatments.  Therefore, if the patient has only had treatments on a CVC in the previous 6 months, then the VAPR and AAPR graphics will appear blank.  Average session blood flow rate, average session venous pressure, and average session arterial pressure will be displayed for all treatments despite the type of access recorded in the treatment record.