Operating Theatre: Surgery scheduling, checklists, anaesthesia records and theatre consumables

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Operating Theatre in the Bridge HMS Suite: Surgery scheduling, checklists, anaesthesia records and theatre consumables

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Everything in Operating Theatre

76 items in 16 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

Operating Theater Rooms
- OR Theater Room RegistryRegister each theater with name, unique per-facility code, floor, wing and dedicated specialty.
- 11 Theater Type ClassificationsType each room as general, orthopedic, cardiac, ob-gyn, neuro, ophthalmic, ENT, minor, emergency, bronchoscopy or endoscopy.
- Live Theater State WhiteboardTrack rooms across available, occupied, cleaning, maintenance, emergency-standby and out-of-service states.
- One-Click Room State ButtonsMark a theater cleaning, available (stamping last deep-clean), under maintenance or out of service from the form.
- Fixed Equipment InventoryRecord fixed kit per room plus temperature-control and laminar-flow flags.
- 7-Day Theater Utilization %Auto-compute each room's booked-time utilization against a standard 8-hour day over the last week.
Surgery Booking & Scheduling
- Auto-Numbered Surgery BookingsEvery booking gets a sequential SURG/year/###### reference from a dedicated sequence.
- 10-Stage Surgery LifecycleRequested, scheduled, pre-op, ready, in-theater, in-recovery, transferred-to-ward, discharged, plus cancel/postpone branches.
- Guarded Workflow TransitionsEach stage button enforces valid state order and raises clear errors otherwise.
- Double-Booking PreventionA constraint blocks scheduling a theater when its slot overlaps another active booking in that room.
- Multi-Procedure Combined CasesAdd combined procedure lines with laterality (left/right/bilateral) and per-procedure planned durations.
- Scheduled vs Actual DurationCapture planned duration and computed actual duration, surfacing overrun minutes automatically.
Surgical Team Management
- Multi-Surgeon Team AssignmentAssign a required lead surgeon plus multiple assistant surgeons, restricted to doctor-role staff.
- Lead-vs-Assistant Conflict GuardA constraint prevents the same person being both lead and assistant surgeon.
- Anesthetist & Nursing RosterAssign the anesthetist, multiple scrub nurses and a circulating nurse with role-based domains.
- Surgeon Surgery CounterEach staff record computes and lists the surgeries they completed as lead surgeon.
- Surgical Specialty FlagFlag staff eligible to be scheduled as lead or assistant surgeon.
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
- Three-Phase WHO ChecklistFull Sign-In, Time-Out and Sign-Out checklist per booking with its own state machine.
- Sign-In Safety ItemsConfirm identity, site marking, anesthesia check, pulse oximeter, allergies, airway and blood-loss risk pre-induction.
- Time-Out ItemsRecord team introductions, site confirmation, antibiotic prophylaxis, imaging and critical events pre-incision.
- Sign-Out ItemsConfirm procedure name, instrument and sponge counts, specimen labeling and equipment issues before leaving OR.
- Timestamped SignaturesEach phase stamps completion time and signing staff, defaulting to the current user's staff record.
- Mandatory-Item EnforcementEach phase refuses completion unless critical items are ticked and prior phases done in order.
Operative Note & Anesthesia Record
- Structured Operative NoteCapture indication, findings, procedure, technique, blood loss, fluids, specimens and complications.
- Post-op Instructions & Follow-upRecord post-op instructions and a follow-up interval in days (default 14).
- Surgeon Sign-Off LockSign the note with surgeon and timestamp, requiring findings and procedure performed first.
- Anesthesia Record per CaseOne record per booking with anesthetist, pre-assessment, Mallampati airway grade and reversal drug.
- Anesthesia Drug LogLog each drug with dose, total mg/mL, time and route (IV/IM/SC/inhaled/oral/epidural/intrathecal).
- Intra-op Fluid LogRecord fluids by type (saline, Ringer's, colloid, blood, FFP, platelets) with volume, auto-totalling.
PACU / Recovery
- PACU Recovery RecordOne recovery record per booking tracking admit/discharge times across admitted, monitoring and discharged.
- Aldrete Score LogRecord Aldrete scoring (activity, respiration, circulation, consciousness, saturation) per entry, auto-summed.
- Latest Aldrete TrackingCompute and store the most recent Aldrete score for quick discharge review.
- Aldrete-Gated DischargeDischarge is blocked below Aldrete 8 unless criteria are manually confirmed, and requires a destination.
- Pain & Vomiting TrackingRecord a range-validated 0-10 pain score and vomiting episodes during recovery.
- 5 Discharge DestinationsRoute the recovered patient to ward, ICU, HDU, home (day case) or against-medical-advice.
Implant & Equipment Traceability
- Implant Register with Serial TraceabilityRecord each implant's product, unique serial, batch/lot and manufacturer for recall traceability.
- Unique-Serial EnforcementA constraint guarantees implant serial numbers are unique and mandatory across the register.
- Implant Cost & Billing CaptureStore cost to hospital, value billed to patient and the anatomical insertion site.
- Revision-Surgery LinkageLink an implant to the later revision booking where it is removed for lifecycle traceability.
- Equipment Usage LogLog equipment per case with asset code, usage start/end, post-use condition and cleaned-after flag.
Surgical Outcomes & Quality
- Surgery Outcome RecordClassify outcome as uncomplicated, complication, intra-op mortality, conversion or re-operation.
- Complication Catalog TaggingTag complications from a categorized catalog (bleeding, SSI, cardiac, respiratory, VTE, stroke, anaphylaxis).
- 30-Day Quality IndicatorsTrack 30-day mortality, readmission and re-operation flags for surgical quality reporting.
- Surgical Site Infection SurveillanceFlag and track 30-day surgical-site-infection incidents for infection-control review.
- Surgeon Assessment & SatisfactionCapture the surgeon's outcome assessment and a range-validated 1-5 patient satisfaction score.
Configuration
- Settings
Theatre
- Theatre Dashboard
- OR Schedule
- Pre-op Checklists
- Operative Notes
- Anaesthesia Records
- PACU
- Implant Register
- Outcomes
Bookings
- Today
- This Week
- In Progress
- Completed
- Cancelled
Theatres
- Theatre Rooms
- Procedure Catalogue
- Complications
- Equipment Usage Log
Documents it prints
- Operative Note
- Anaesthesia Record
- Daily OR Schedule
- Outcome Audit
- Implant Traceability
It runs by itself
- HMS: Publish next-day OR schedule to surgeonsRuns daily
- HMS: Theatre cancellation rollupRuns every 6 hours
- HMS: Flag 30-day surgical-site infectionsRuns every 12 hours
Roles it ships
- BridgeERP HMS / Surgeon
- BridgeERP HMS / Anaesthetist
- BridgeERP HMS / Scrub Nurse
Guided assistants
- Cancel Surgery Booking Wizard
- Config Settings

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