CareSuite PACU Manager

Automating postoperative clinical documentation

CareSuite^® PACU Manager, part of our total perioperative automation applications, automates the postoperative record, enabling nurses and physicians to better manage the complex and diverse data generated in the demanding post anesthesia care units (PACUs). This automated capture of patient vital signs and physiologic data and documentation reduces charting time while helping to improve record accuracy, legibility and availability.

The overall result: better daily workflow.

Key benefits:

• Improves access to medical information
  PACU Manager allows clinicians to spend more of their time focusing on patient care and provides information to help clinicians reduce the likelihood of a medical error. Because Picis solutions extend across the continuum of care from preoperative and intraoperative to postoperative and beyond, all the pertinent data is available to the Physician and Nurse to help them make decisions at the point of care. PACU Manager is able to automatically document patient vital signs and enables documentation of postoperative medications and critical patient assessments.
• Reduces overtime charting costs
   When a patient is unstable and requires constant hands-on intervention, documentation is not the highest priority. That means overtime is often required to complete the charting process. PACU Manager - with its comprehensive automation of patient documentation - can drastically reduce the frequency and amount of overtime needed to complete documentation.
• Saves nursing time
  Automatic documentation of device data, score calculation, complex fluid management and automatic IV pump reading, prompting for assessments and remote chart access has been able to reduce time that nurses spend charting and calculating scores to determine outcome and transfer readiness.