Automatic Recording in Clinical Anaesthesia: Three Years Experience

For almost 100 years, the anaesthesia record has been the sole information tool trying to fulfill an ample catalogue of functions related to the anaesthesia information processes. Automated anaesthetic record systems have evolved around data being available online, as an imitation of the handwritten record. None has developed an information tool capable of an efficient utilization of the wide range of resources provided by modern technology to fulfill the information requirements of the anaesthetic environment. We used a system ergonomic analysis trying to find the best solutions. As a result of it we drafted an Anaesthesia Information Concept (AIC) in which the complexity of data & information (D&I) processes is broken down to modules called Clinical Information Process Units (CIPUs). A CIPU is mainly defined by the responsibility of a staff member and focuses on the basic system patient, staff and machine (all devices). The internal functions of a CIPU are treatment control and medicolegal documentation. The external functions are fulfilled by transferring required sets of D&I for subsequent treatment control (next CIPU), audit, quality control, cost calculation, etc. Using such an approach, an Anaesthesia Information Concept (AIC) can be realized by a wide range of modular and hybrid systems (combination of different tools such as paper records, computers, etc), as opposed to universal and single automated documentation systems, which up to now have failed to fulfill the information demands of the anaesthetic environment.

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Ergonomics applied to anaesthesia record keeping

Friesdorf

Konichezky

Groß-Alltag

et al. 1993

J Clin Monit Comput

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Automatic Recording in Clinical Anaesthesia: Three Years Experience

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