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Reliable documentation promotes patient care, quality and standardization

MEDRAD's Connect.PACS™ application is a contrast dose-management informatics solution that accurately and consistently documents CT contrast media administered intravenously through the Stellant® CT Power Injection System.  Healthcare professionals gain immediate access to the patient’s electronic contrast-injection history to review data which can impact patient outcomes.  Benefits include:

• Determining contrast-dosing decisions made during study administration that can impact image quality
• Identifying unnecessary repeat-studies that can impact patient care and drive-up departmental costs
• Revealing opportunities to drive measured improvements in quality, process standardization and performance management

Documenting contrast media administered intravenously today

Nine of the top-25 drugs reported to most frequently result in medication errors are contrast agents.¹  Though critical to patient care, manual documentation of  intravenous CT contrast media, a high-alert medication,² is often inaccurate and inconsistent.  In fact, one institution reports retrieval of manually recorded documentation failed one of every five times attempted.

¹Santell JP, Hicks RW, Cousins DD. MEDMARX Data Report: A Chartbook of
2000-2004 Findings from Intensive Care Units and Radiological Services. Rockville,
Md: 2005.

²http://www.ismp.org/tools/highalertmedications.pdf (accessed 04/19/11)