About New Fluids treatments
The New Fluids feature is a new method to schedule and monitor your patients' fluid treatments. The New Fluids feature gives more visual aid in flowsheets than the previous fluid treatment feature in SmartFlow.
- When to complete each treatment task
- The fluid rate for each treatment task
- Fluid additives
- When it is necessary to increase and decrease the fluid rate
- When each treatment task is completed
- The length of the treatment period
Icons in New Fluids treatment tasks
Flowsheets that have New Fluids treatments show icons and numbers to identify important information about treatment tasks.
The number in a cell identifies the fluid rate for the treatment. Cells only have numbers when the fluid rate changes.
- Each icon in a flowsheet that has a New Fluids treatment
- The information that the icon identifies
| Icon | Information |
|---|---|
| The treatment task is not completed. | |
| The treatment task is completed. | |
| It is necessary to increase the rate of the fluid treatment and the treatment task is not completed. | |
| It is necessary to decrease the rate of the fluid treatment and the treatment task is not completed. Note: Usually, a decrease in the fluid rate is necessary because rehydration is completed. | |
| The rate of the fluid treatment increased and the treatment task is completed. | |
| The rate of the fluid treatment decreased and the treatment task is completed. | |
| Staff did not complete the treatment task. | |
| Staff temporarily stopped a treatment. | |
| Staff started a temporarily stopped treatment. |
Limitations
If you set whiteboards to show the total quantity of tasks to do for a patient, the whiteboards do not include New Fluids tasks.
You can only use the New Fluids feature in flowsheets. You cannot use it in anesthetic sheets.
If you add one more day to a flowsheet, SmartFlow does not automatically add the previous day's treatment tasks for New Fluids. If a New Fluids treatment is necessary, you must schedule new treatment tasks manually.