Patients
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ACUSON Cypress™ Operator’s Manual
Registering a New Patient Using the Worklist
To register a new patient using the Worklist feature, follow these steps:
1.
Press the
PATIENT
function key to display the Patient/Study list.
2.
Click [
WORKLIST
] to display the Worklist Query screen.
3.
Enter any required patient information for the Worklist search. (See Table 11
on page 4-13 for more information.)
4.
Select the desired study date(s) for the search in the
Study Date
combina-
tion box.
5.
Select the desired Modality to search in the
Modality
combination box.
6.
Select the desired Worklist Server to use in the
Worklist Server
combination
box.
7.
Select the number of responses to display in the
Display
combination box.
8.
To begin the search, click [
QUERY
]. To close the Worklist Query screen and
return to the Patient screen, click the [
CANCEL
] button. To clear the entered
search criteria, click [
CLEAR
].
NOTE When a Query is in progress, a dialog box is displayed with a
[
CANCEL
] button; to cancel the search, click [
CANCEL
].
9.
When the search is complete, the results are displayed in table form at the
bottom of the Worklist Query screen. The displayed fields are: Patient, Sex,
Birth Date, Patient Id, Accession Number, Study Date, and Modality. Each
field can be sorted alphabetically by clicking on the column header.
10.
Select the desired patient by double clicking on its row, or by selecting (high-
lighting) it and clicking the [
CREATE
] button.
11.
The Modality Worklist Details screen will be displayed, listing all available
information on this patient received from the Worklist Server. This informa-
tion is used to verify that the selected patient is the patient that is about to be
scanned.
12.
To exit from the Modality Worklist Details screen and select another patient,
click [
CANCEL
].
13.
To create a new Patient and Study for the selected patient, click [OK] on the
Modality Worklist Details screen. The Cypress system New Patient screen
will be displayed with these fields filled in: Last Name, First Name, Birth
Date, Sex, Accession Number. You will not be able to change any of the data
for these fields.