Safe Label System (SLS)

Anesthesia Cart Integration

The system integrates with both manual and smart anesthesia drug carts (ADCs)* in the OR, enabling it to be conveniently situated as part of the anesthesia workflow. SLS is also widely used in the ICU, for patient care on the floor and at the bedside, and in the pharmacy.

Improve patient safety

Problems associated with mislabeling and mishandling of medications continue to adversely affect hospitals and surgical facilities. Drug labeling requires time and vigilance, and is prone to human error. For example, in the OR, anesthetists are met with competing demands, coupled with the challenge to handwrite the required drug information in a legible manner on a very small area. SLS uses barcode technology to read information from drug containers and empowers you to label any medication, anywhere in your facility, with a compliant label.

Workflow eliminates medication errors and improves compliance

When a drug is recorded from the anesthesia cart or scanned on SLS, the clinician is immediately presented with audible and visual confirmation of the drug and concentration in hand, providing an electronic “double-check”, a safeguard that ensures the medication selected is the intended medication. The system then automatically presents a JCI-compliant, easy-to-read and ready-to-apply label, eliminating the need for handwriting and ensuring safety, accuracy and compliancy.

Additional benefits in the OR

• Includes a 2D barcode on labels enabling electronic documentation of the medication in the patient’s AIMS/EHR
• When integrated with an anesthesia cart, SLS can help to decrease stock-outs, improve inventory control and increase charge capture
• Additional safety when integrated with AIMS including visual identification of the syringe, warnings for expired syringes, patient allergies or adverse drug interactions prior to administration
• Prints labels for IV lines, invasive monitor lines, and other OR needs on demand

Additional benefits in the Pharmacy

• Data analytics provide pharmacy insight into the OR
• Integrates with WasteLog for automated documentation of the drug and concentration to improve the assay workflow

Regulatory and Safety

• U.S.FDA Class II medication safety system
• Provides a medication safety system anywhere medications are prepared
• Installed in over 11,000 operating rooms in more than 750 sites across 18 countries
• Approved hospital-specific concentrations and diluents are preset selected from the touchscreen for speed and safety with no manual entry required
• Audibly and visually identifies the medication at preparation then verifies it administration, acting as a second set of eyes to ensure safety

Full-Color, Compliant Labels

• Produces easy to read and ready to apply JCI-compliant labels that completely elminates handwriting
• ISO-compliant, full-color labels follow the latest label enhancements to help reduce drug administration errors using barcode technology
• Includes ISO 26825, ASTM 4774-06 and ASTM 4474-11 (including ASTM D4267 and D6398-08; font/characters, contrast and enhanced readability)
• Include the drug name, concentration, diluent and dilution (if required), date and time of preparation, date and time of expiration, preparer’s initials, warnings and/or alerts and a barcode for integration downstream. Includes 1D and/or 2D barcode (for EHR/AIMS integration) to improve charge capture
• Enable drug and concentration to be confirmed prior to administration
• Free-form message fields on printed label (e.g. warnings, hospital address)
• Combination drug templates
• Prints labels for IV, invasive monitor lines, patient labels or customized labels (e.g. pump lines, needle gauges, breast milk, etc.)
• Ability to make multiple labels from a single scan
• Stand-alone operation

Workflow

• Conveniently sits on and Integrates with anesthesia drug carts as part of the preparation
• Improves and automates the labelling process

Safety Checks

• Visual alerts for drug name, concentration, date/time of expiration, recalled drugs and expired drugs
• Audible alerts for drug name, concentration, date/time of expiration, recalled drugs, expired drugs and dilution required
• Helps prevent vial/ampoule swaps, mislabelling and syringe swaps
• Integrates with AIMS including Epic, Cerner, iMDsoft, Plexus, Medical System, etc.

Other

• Highly awarded for innovation
• Published articles and case studies from KOL focused on ROI from reduced inventory discrepancies, reducing medication errors and improving JCI compliance
• Optional shelf (for integration on ADCs)
• Includes starter kit (ink/labels)
• SLS Advanced “Smart” Scanning (SASS) enables supplies to be scanned for inventory accuracy without producing a label*
• BCMA (barcode medication administration) integration on the floor and in the OR with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, McKesson, MEDITECH, GE Healthcare and more*

*SLS integration varies with our partners. Ask you sales representative for details.