This bitesize video (2 minutes) demonstrates the new process for prescribing and documenting a patient's SPO2 target saturations.


SPO2 Target Saturations and O2 Prescription Process Video



Addendum


Prescribing and recording SP02 target saturations is available via the following documents/flowsheet:

  • ED Documentation 
  • ED Triage
  • ED CDU Transfer
  • IP Clinical Clerking Document
  • IP Doctors Daily Ward Round Note
  • IP AEC Doctors Proforma
  • Sepsis Screening/ Assessment (Adults)
  • Standalone document ‘SP02 Target and Oxygen Gas Prescription’ 
  • FS Clinical Observations Adult

 

The scale (target saturation) prescribed will be visible on the tracking board and also populate on the nursing handover report.