• Int J Clin Monit Comput · Feb 1996

    Automatic record keeping in anaesthesia--a nine-year Italian experience.

    • V Lanza.
    • Department of Anaesthesia-Ospedale Buccheri La Ferla, Patermo, Italy.
    • Int J Clin Monit Comput. 1996 Feb 1; 13 (1): 35-43.

    AbstractIn 1986, in Buccheri La Ferla Hospital, Palermo, an anaesthesia information management project was started. Its aim was to develop a computerized anaesthesia workstation. Today, the system is in daily clinical use and has reached most of its original goals: Automatic collection of physiological signals and patient monitor trends is possible by means of analog-digital conversion or by using serial data transfer. A centralized display is included in the system to allow easy control of the progress of the anaesthetic procedures in the hospital. Available in the workstation, there is an on-line help function to assist pharmacological calculations and administration of anaesthesia drugs. Mail messages can be sent to different anaesthesia workstations and data can be shared between them. Information collected during preoperative visits is automatically transferred from a portable personal computer to the system. There is a nine-year patient data-base with both preoperative and perioperative anaesthesia information which can be accessed from each of the workstations. Today, the system is in daily routine use and comprises eight anaesthesia workstations and two portable personal computers used for preoperative visits. The operation schedule with anaesthetists' notes is printed both for surgical wards and for O.R., using information stored from preoperative visits to the system. For automated data collection a trend resolution of one minute has been used. The postoperative orders are printed from the system in the recovery room and given to the wards with the patient. The feedback from the seventeen anaesthetists and twenty-four nurses who use the system routinely is positive. Today, 16,000 patient records are available in the database. This number increases by 3,300 every year. With increasing computer utilization in patient treatment there have been no legal or administrative controversies. Based on nine years' experience, it is clear that the use of computers in anaesthesia practice improves quality of patient care.

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