You can document and manage the vital signs of a pediatric patient in the Vital Signs panel.
You can add multiple vital signs for a patient during an encounter. The most recent value for each vital sign appears in the corresponding area in the grid.
The
Add button in the
Vital Signs panel opens one of the following template based on the patient's age.
- The Pediatric Under 2 Years Vital Signs template for patients under 2 years of age. The template includes the Gestational age at birth fields to enter the patient's gestational age in weeks and days. The days field accepts values between 0 to 6. The template notifies you with an instructional text message when the Fenton Growth Chart has been used for the calculation of the percentiles. The display of the percentiles is based on the data in the Gestational age at birth field with a value less than 37 weeks and a gestational birth age of up to 50 weeks. For a premature patient, you can record the prematurity and the gestational age in the template.
- The Pediatric Over 2 Years Vital Signs template for patients above 2 years of age but under 10 years. The template includes the LMP date field for female patients to enter the last menstrual period, if necessary.
Note: You can customize the alert settings for out-of-range pediatrics vital signs values on the
Vital Signs Configuration practice template. For more information go to
NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the
Vital Signs Configuration Practice Template for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine.
