Operating Theatre: Surgery scheduling, checklists, anaesthesia records and theatre consumables

The operating theatre from booking to recovery: theatre rooms and a surgical schedule, the team on each case, the WHO surgical safety checklist, the operative note, anaesthesia from pre-operative assessment through the intra-operative record to PACU handoff, implants traced, outcomes measured and the case billed.

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Operating Theatre in the Bridge HMS Suite: Surgery scheduling, checklists, anaesthesia records and theatre consumables

The WHO checklist and the operative note

Pre-op checklists on the WHO surgical safety model, operative notes, anaesthesia records and PACU.

Implants traced, outcomes measured

The implant register with lot and serial, surgical outcomes and the equipment usage log.

Anaesthesia from assessment to recovery

Pre-op assessments with ASA and airway, intra-op records, PACU handoffs and recovery, and anaesthesia billing units.

The intra-operative chart, event by event

Vitals, drug events, airway, fluids and complications recorded on the anaesthesia record.

Rooms, procedures and complications

Theatre rooms, the procedure catalogue with durations and prices, and complications.

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Everything in Operating Theatre

78 items in 17 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

Operating Theater Rooms
- OR Theater Room RegistryRegister each theater with name, unique per-facility code, floor, wing and dedicated specialty.
- 11 Theater Type ClassificationsType each room as general, orthopedic, cardiac, ob-gyn, neuro, ophthalmic, ENT, minor, emergency, bronchoscopy or endoscopy.
- Live Theater State WhiteboardTrack rooms across available, occupied, cleaning, maintenance, emergency-standby and out-of-service states.
- One-Click Room State ButtonsMark a theater cleaning, available (stamping last deep-clean), under maintenance or out of service from the form.
- Fixed Equipment InventoryRecord fixed kit per room plus temperature-control and laminar-flow flags.
- 7-Day Theater Utilization %Auto-compute each room's booked-time utilization against a standard 8-hour day over the last week.
Surgery Booking & Scheduling
- Auto-Numbered Surgery BookingsEvery booking gets a sequential SURG/year/###### reference from a dedicated sequence.
- 10-Stage Surgery LifecycleRequested, scheduled, pre-op, ready, in-theater, in-recovery, transferred-to-ward, discharged, plus cancel/postpone branches.
- Guarded Workflow TransitionsEach stage button enforces valid state order and raises clear errors otherwise.
- Double-Booking PreventionThe app blocks scheduling a theater when its slot overlaps another active booking in that room.
- Multi-Procedure Combined CasesAdd combined procedure lines with laterality (left/right/bilateral) and per-procedure planned durations.
- Scheduled vs Actual DurationCapture planned duration and computed actual duration, surfacing overrun minutes automatically.
Surgical Team Management
- Multi-Surgeon Team AssignmentAssign a required lead surgeon plus multiple assistant surgeons, restricted to doctor-role staff.
- Lead-vs-Assistant Conflict GuardThe app prevents the same person being both lead and assistant surgeon.
- Anesthetist & Nursing RosterAssign the anesthetist, multiple scrub nurses and a circulating nurse with role-based domains.
- Surgeon Surgery CounterEach staff record computes and lists the surgeries they completed as lead surgeon.
- Surgical Specialty FlagFlag staff eligible to be scheduled as lead or assistant surgeon.
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
- Three-Phase WHO ChecklistFull Sign-In, Time-Out and Sign-Out checklist per booking with its own workflow.
- Sign-In Safety ItemsConfirm identity, site marking, anesthesia check, pulse oximeter, allergies, airway and blood-loss risk pre-induction.
- Time-Out ItemsRecord team introductions, site confirmation, antibiotic prophylaxis, imaging and critical events pre-incision.
- Sign-Out ItemsConfirm procedure name, instrument and sponge counts, specimen labeling and equipment issues before leaving OR.
- Timestamped SignaturesEach phase stamps completion time and signing staff, defaulting to the current user's staff record.
- Mandatory-Item EnforcementEach phase refuses completion unless critical items are ticked and prior phases done in order.
Operative Note & Anesthesia Record
- Structured Operative NoteCapture indication, findings, procedure, technique, blood loss, fluids, specimens and complications.
- Post-op Instructions & Follow-upRecord post-op instructions and a follow-up interval in days (default 14).
- Surgeon Sign-Off LockSign the note with surgeon and timestamp, requiring findings and procedure performed first.
- Anesthesia Record per CaseOne record per booking with anesthetist, pre-assessment, Mallampati airway grade and reversal drug.
- Anesthesia Drug LogLog each drug with dose, total mg/mL, time and route (IV/IM/SC/inhaled/oral/epidural/intrathecal).
- Intra-op Fluid LogRecord fluids by type (saline, Ringer's, colloid, blood, FFP, platelets) with volume, auto-totalling.
PACU / Recovery
- PACU Recovery RecordOne recovery record per booking tracking admit/discharge times across admitted, monitoring and discharged.
- Aldrete Score LogRecord Aldrete scoring (activity, respiration, circulation, consciousness, saturation) per entry, auto-summed.
- Latest Aldrete TrackingCompute and store the most recent Aldrete score for quick discharge review.
- Aldrete-Gated DischargeDischarge is blocked below Aldrete 8 unless criteria are manually confirmed, and requires a destination.
- Pain & Vomiting TrackingRecord a range-validated 0-10 pain score and vomiting episodes during recovery.
- 5 Discharge DestinationsRoute the recovered patient to ward, ICU, HDU, home (day case) or against-medical-advice.
Implant & Equipment Traceability
- Implant Register with Serial TraceabilityRecord each implant's product, unique serial, batch/lot and manufacturer for recall traceability.
- Unique-Serial EnforcementThe app guarantees implant serial numbers are unique and mandatory across the register.
- Implant Cost & Billing CaptureStore cost to hospital, value billed to patient and the anatomical insertion site.
- Revision-Surgery LinkageLink an implant to the later revision booking where it is removed for lifecycle traceability.
- Equipment Usage LogLog equipment per case with asset code, usage start/end, post-use condition and cleaned-after flag.
Surgical Outcomes & Quality
- Surgery Outcome RecordClassify outcome as uncomplicated, complication, intra-op mortality, conversion or re-operation.
- Complication Catalog TaggingTag complications from a categorized catalog (bleeding, SSI, cardiac, respiratory, VTE, stroke, anaphylaxis).
- 30-Day Quality IndicatorsTrack 30-day mortality, readmission and re-operation flags for surgical quality reporting.
- Surgical Site Infection SurveillanceFlag and track 30-day surgical-site-infection incidents for infection-control review.
- Surgeon Assessment & SatisfactionCapture the surgeon's outcome assessment and a range-validated 1-5 patient satisfaction score.
Configuration
- Settings
Theatre
- Theatre Dashboard
- OR Schedule
- Pre-op Checklists
- Operative Notes
- Anaesthesia Records
- PACU
- Implant Register
- Outcomes
Bookings
- Today
- This Week
- In Progress
- Completed
- Cancelled
Theatres
- Theatre Rooms
- Procedure Catalogue
- Complications
- Equipment Usage Log
Documents it prints
- Operative Note
- Anaesthesia Record
- Daily OR Schedule
- Outcome Audit
- Implant Traceability
It runs by itself
- HMS: Publish next-day OR schedule to surgeonsRuns daily
- HMS: Theatre cancellation rollupRuns every 6 hours
- HMS: Flag 30-day surgical-site infectionsRuns every 12 hours
Roles it ships
- BridgeERP HMS / Surgeon
- BridgeERP HMS / Anaesthetist
- BridgeERP HMS / Scrub Nurse
Guided assistants
- Cancel Surgery Booking Wizard
- Config Settings
More in this app
- The theatre list, without clashesThe theatre dashboard, the OR schedule by room, and cases today and this week with surgeon, anaesthetist and team.
- Theatre performance, measuredBookings, checklists, operative notes, intra-op records and PACU in pivot and graph.

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What Operating Theatre works with

Operating Theatre shares one database with the rest of the Bridge HMS Suite and BridgeERP: these are the apps it already talks to, with nothing to buy in between.