How to Manage Surgical Drugs and Gases

Sensei Cloud enables you to maintain a list of drugs and gases your practice uses during surgery, and to document their administration in the Patient Anesthesia Record. Use this list to:

• View, sort, and edit the current list of drugs and gases.
• Add new items to the list and mark favorites.
• Create groups of drugs and gases commonly used together, to help facilitate easy selection and documentation throughout a surgical procedure.
• Define and manage units and dosages available for selection.

To manage the list of drugs and gases for your practice:

1. From the Administration tab, select Clinical > Surgical Drugs & Gases. The list is displayed.
   
2. Under Actions, select Add New Surgical Drug or Gas. 
   
3. Enter the name of the new list item. If you want to mark this item as a favorite for the practice, click the green star. Items marked as favorites appear at the top of the selection list.
4. Select Drug or Gas.
   Note: Once saved, this drug/gas type is not editable.
5. Click Create. The item is added to the list and available for selection.
6. Select the name of an item in the list to expand it to view and create Defaults. You can set multiple defaults for a single drug by defining a description for each, (i.e., Ketamine 30, Ketamine 50).
   
7. Click Create Defaults.
   
8. Enter the Description, Dose, and select the Units.
   Note: If the desired unit of measurement is not on the list, it can be added from the Units tab. 
9. Click Create to save.

Note: You can also add a drug/gas to the list from the Search field when creating the Anesthesia Record.

Note: To edit an item or mark it as a favorite, select it in the list and click Edit ().

Creating Drug Groups

Drug groups enable you to pull a pre-defined list of drugs/gases and dosages into an Anesthesia Record (Surgery Vitals tab), and then use that list to record them in the Event Log as they are administered during the course of the procedure. 

To create drug groups:

1. From the Surgical Drugs and Gases screen, select the Drug Groups tab.
2. Select Add New Drug Group. 
3. Enter a Name for the group and click Create. The group is added to the list.
4. From the Drug Groups list, click the name of the group. The Group entry box is expanded.
5. Click Add Item.  
   The Add Drug Group Item window is displayed.
   
6. For Entry type, select Manual to manually enter the dose and units, or select from the defined Defaults for the drug/gas.
7. Click Create. The drug/gas is added to the group. Continue adding items to the group as needed.

For more information, see How to Create an Anesthesia Record and Oral Surgery Clinical Chart (EMR).