Implant logs....

shodobe · Apr 16, 2004

Yes at both hospitals I work at. One copy goes on the patient's chart and the other goes in the surgical record. Mike

carcha · Apr 16, 2004

absolutely Karen, just as Shodobe says. We log everything, aneurysm clips, surgical packs, sterile instruments, grafts, implants, anything with a coding system, barcode, sterility tag ect, we log.

KarenHalse · Apr 19, 2004

Interesting....in the last 4 hospitals I have worked at they don't. The hospital I am currently at does but why? Especially if it is not a requirement. We put in in the pt. record, the doc's progress note and of course the charge slip. Thanks for the reply.

DNRme · Apr 20, 2004

One place I work does, the other doesn't. It can't be required, or there wouldn't be any discussion. Many years ago it was explained to me that in case of a recall, it is much easier to pull out a book with all of a particular type of implant than to try to go through every chart where an item may have been used. We keep seperate logs for ortho/neuro & gen/gu/vasc.

All this was before computerization. If our computers ever start working :chuckle, maybe we can get rid of the logs.

dragonladymlb · May 4, 2004

Interesting....in the last 4 hospitals I have worked at they don't. The hospital I am currently at does but why? Especially if it is not a requirement. We put in in the pt. record, the doc's progress note and of course the charge slip. Thanks for the reply.

I understand that JAHCO is now requiring some sort of log. I am a travelling RN and every hospital that I have worked required an implant to logged. Some were using a computerized version, others a paper trail, one for the chart and one for a log book.