CLINIC HQ

10.4.2. Drawing Induction Drugs (Drug Draw Screen)

Drawing and logging drugs for induction is a major step in flowing a patient through surgery.

In HQ, this step is done in the Drug Draw tab in Patient Flow.

Once the patient is marked “Done” from the Exam & Pre-Med screen, they are pushed over to the Drug Draw tab in Patient Flow. This flow means that your drug drawer can begin pulling up induction drugs in concert with the exams being done. What a win! This means you don’t have to wait until all the exams are done to start drawing up drugs. You can simply begin to pull them up once they’ve been cleared for surgery.

Pulling Up Induction Drugs

  1. To access Drug Draw go to: Clients > Patient Flow > Drug Draw (at the top).
  • Note that the drug doses are already keyed up with black clock icon next to them. This means they’ve not been pulled yet. It’s simply displaying the drug amounts to pull up. If they have been pulled up, a blue syringe icon will appear next to them.

  1. The technician will draw up the drugs and place them in a zip lock bag along with a Baggie Insert, which can be found in templates. The insert fits perfectly into a baggie and allows the technician to communicate with the surgical team. The information communicated can be put into Patient Flow by the technician. Some clinics may choose to use a treatment sheet instead of a baggie insert.
  2. The drug drawer can begin pulling up the drugs for all animals appearing on the Drug Draw screen in Patient Flow.
  • The animals appear in the order they are checked in and it will be necessary to refresh the screen to get newly checked in animals to population on the screen.
  • The Drug Draw screen in designed to hold five animals at a time. We suggest using a tablet for this process, which can be laid down, and five animals at a time can be drawn up and laid out. Or, if you prefer, simply draw up one patient at a time.

Marking Drugs as Drawn

Once the drugs have been drawn either one by one, or for five patients at a time:

  1. Click the Drugs button > Drawn
  2. Look at the bottle number to make sure you are drawing from the bottle indicated on the computer screen. You will note the dose amount and make sure that’s what you’ve drawn. Then you will click Save. This will save the information to the drug log. It will draw down from the original totals you started your day from.
  3. You’ll notice the icons next to the dose values change from clocks to blue syringes. This indicates the drugs have been drawn.

Marking Patient as Done

Click the Done button to indicate you are done processing this patient’s induction drugs. This will take them off this screen and move them to the Surgical screen.

The patient is now ready for surgery.