When you go to the hospital to see a doctor, it is inevitable that you need to draw blood for routine, biochemical, and immune examinations. In a large tertiary general hospital, the number of blood samples generated in outpatient clinics will be in the thousands every day. Sending these specimens from the blood collection point to the laboratory department requires manpower, material resources, and may also produce some human errors.
On the 21st, the Blood Collection Center of the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province was officially opened, and its automated functions of calling, blood collection, sorting, automatic transportation and distribution more than doubled the speed of the hospital's peak blood sampling and examination projects, and effectively solved the pain points of the long waiting time for inspection and examination in the "three long and one short" of medical treatment. During the epidemic prevention and control period, it can also greatly reduce the gathering of people and bring new experiences to patient visits.
The new blood collection center is located in the corridor of the 1st floor of the hospital's Building 1 and Building 2, just one step away from the outpatient hall, covering an area of 70 square meters, with a total of 6 blood collection windows, and the nursing team of the emergency department of the provincial second medical department collects blood for patients.
Transport, sign for and sort specimens in one go
Tang Na, chief nurse of the hospital emergency department, told Nandu reporter that the blood collection center innovatively adopted the "intelligent blood collection system + specimen aerodynamic real-time transmission system" to achieve the integration of transportation, signing and sorting. After the patient checks in, the intelligent blood collection device establishes a blood sample label for the corresponding examination item, automatically sticks the tube, and the window nurse checks the information for the second time.
On the side of the blood collection room, there is a "vine" that snakes upwards, "This is the 'pipeline' of the specimen aerodynamic real-time transmission system After the blood collection is completed, the nurse places the blood sample test tube on the specimen transportation and transmission track, and through the pipeline, it is directly 'launched' to the intelligent sorting system of the Laboratory Medical Department on the 5th floor of the Provincial Second Medical Clinic, and the intelligent sorting system is automatically classified according to different blood sample labels, and the whole process does not require manual operation." Tona said.
Specimen pneumatic instant transmission system
Specimen transport conveyor track
The application of pneumatic real-time transmission system and intelligent sorting of specimens has changed the original blood sample transportation and sorting mode, and realized the integration of transportation, signature and sorting. Cao Donglin, director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine of the Second Provincial Hospital, explained that the intelligent sorting system and the hospital's billing system are directly connected, and by identifying the tube body barcode, the patient's examination project information can be obtained and automatically sorted into different sample baskets, reducing the process of manual verification and receipt, scanning and sorting codes one by one.
Intelligent sorting system for blood sample specimens
With the Intelligent Sorting System, blood sample specimens are automatically sorted into different sample baskets
"After the blood sample is collected, it takes only 3 minutes on average to be transported from the blood collection center to the laboratory medicine department to the signature and enter the system." Talking about the changes after the application of the new system, Director Cao Donglin said that blood sample specimens no longer need to be distributed by the nursing staff of the delivery center, and the real-time delivery and monitoring of specimens has been realized, which has avoided the mistakes that may be caused by manual operation, shortened the transportation time, and ensured the accuracy and timeliness of the test results.
After the opening of the blood collection center, nearly 40% of the manpower will be saved compared with the previous one, and a nurse will be arranged to assist in the guidance in the hall at the beginning of the opening. "Although the number of medical staff involved in blood collection has decreased, the blood collection capacity has nearly doubled in the same time, and the efficiency of blood collection has been greatly improved."
Greatly speed up blood collection tests at least twice as fast
The traditional blood collection process needs to be issued by the doctor to draw blood tests, and then the emergency department nurse prints the blood label according to the test sheet, and manually calls the number, which is labor-intensive, not intelligent enough, easy to make mistakes, and during the peak period of blood collection, there may also be a situation where the patient waits too long, wrong number, and number.
In order to solve these problems, the reporter found at the scene that the provincial second medical blood collection center has added a self-service area and equipped with a self-service check-in machine. After the patient gets the test form, he scans the bar code in the upper left corner of the test form on the self-service check-in machine, and can automatically take the number to queue up and wait for blood collection. The electronic screen displays the number of patients waiting, and after the arrival of the number, it is automatically reminded, and the patient can go to the indication window to collect blood, reducing the occurrence of patient queuing and gathering.
The provincial second medical blood collection center has added a new self-service area, equipped with self-service check-in machines
It is reported that because blood testing is an important judgment basis for doctors' diagnosis, in large tertiary first-class hospitals such as the provincial second doctor, the number of outpatient blood draws every day is as high as 600 to 700 times, and the number of specimens produced is thousands (a considerable number of patients need to draw multi-tube blood samples). "Because of the large number of blood draws, the waiting time for patients during peak periods may be 1 hour, and after the launch of the new highly automated blood collection center, the waiting time for patients will be shortened to more than 20 minutes, which greatly improves the speed of blood collection and saves time for patients." Head nurse Tang Na told Nandu reporter that in the next step, the Provincial Second Medical Blood Collection Center will continue to explore the function of time-divided appointments, promote the standardization, standardization, intelligence and humanization of the blood collection link, and provide patients with more convenient and better services.
Written by: Nandu reporter Wang Daobin Correspondent: Wang Shuhui
Photography, video Nandu reporter Zou Wei