Improving Transfusion Safety in the Operating Room With a Barcode Scanning System Designed Specifically for the Surgical Environment and Existing Electronic Medical Record Systems: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: A barcode-based system designed for easy integration to different commonly used anesthesia information management systems was implemented in a large urban academic hospital. The system allows a single user with the assistance of a software system to perform and document pretransfusion safety verification. The system improved transfusion documentation compliance, averted potential transfusion errors, and became the preferred method of blood transfusion safety checking.
PMID: 32925343 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Anesthesia and Analgesia - September 16, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Vanneman MW, Balakrishna A, Lang AL, Eliason KD, Payette AM, Xu X, Driscoll WD, Donovan KM, Deng H, Dzik WH, Levine WC Tags: Anesth Analg Source Type: research