Machines: the register, isolation and uptime
Every chair on the floor is backed by a machine, and the console needs to know what those machines are before it can assign anyone to them safely.
Role: administrator.
The register
Section titled “The register”Record each machine once: its number, the manufacturer and model, the serial number, and when it was bought. Two flags matter more than the rest.
Haemodiafiltration capable. Only a machine marked as HDF capable can be used for an HDF session, so the register is what makes HDF scheduling possible at all.
Isolation machine. A machine dedicated to hepatitis B positive patients is marked as an isolation machine. This is the flag that carries the most clinical weight in the whole register: the console will not let a hepatitis B positive patient be placed on a machine that is not marked for isolation, and it will not let a non isolation patient be placed on one that is. If a machine is set up incorrectly here, that protection does not work.
Status and taking a machine off the floor
Section titled “Status and taking a machine off the floor”A machine is operational, under maintenance, broken down or retired. Changing the status to anything other than operational takes it off the floor immediately, so nobody can be assigned to it. Do this the moment a machine is out of service rather than at the end of the day.
Faults
Section titled “Faults”Faults are recorded against the machine, both from the floor during a session and from the machine record itself. The fault history is what tells you whether a machine is having a bad week or is genuinely failing.
Uptime
Section titled “Uptime”The uptime view shows what proportion of the period each machine was available and estimates the treatment revenue lost while it was not. It is the argument for a service contract or a replacement, in the terms a clinic owner will act on.
See also Nursing for the floor and chair assignment.