An Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) as a tool for controlling resource management of operating rooms.

Objectives: In our department, we have been using an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) for five years. In this study, we tested to what extent data extracted from the AIMS could be suitable for the supervision and time-management of operating rooms.

Methods: From 1995 to 1999, all relevant data from 103,264 anesthetic procedures were routinely recorded online with the automatic anesthesia record keeping system NarkoData.

Influence of the method of data collection on the documentation of blood-pressure readings with an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS).

The influence of methods for record keeping on the documentation of vital signs was assessed for the Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) NarkoData. We compared manually entered blood-pressure readings with automatically collected data. These data were stored in a data-base and subsequently evaluated and analyzed.

Factors determining length of stay of surgical day-case patients.

Background And Objective: Factors which lead to prolonged stay in the day-care unit and unplanned admission after day-case surgery are poorly understood.

Methods: Data sets of 3152 day-case patients were collected with a computerized online record keeping system (NarkoData). Predictors of prolonged postoperative stay including unanticipated admission were identified using univariate analysis.

Data processing at the anesthesia workstation: from data entry to data presentation.

Main requirements for an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) are the supply of additional information for the anesthesiologist at his workstation and complete documentation of the anesthetic procedure. With the implementation of an AIMS (NarkoData) and effective user support, the quality of documentation and the information flow at the anesthesia workstation could be increased. Today, more than 20,000 anesthesia procedures are annually recorded with the AIMS at 112 decentralized workstations.

Comparison of manual and automated documentation of adverse events with an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS).

In this study, an Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) is used for the comparison of manually recorded adverse events with automatically detected events from anesthesiological procedures. In 1998, data from all anesthesia procedures, including the data set for quality assurance defined by the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI), were recorded online with the documentation software NarkoData 4 (IMESO GmbH, Hüttenberg, Germany) followed by storage into a relational database (Oracle Corporation). The occurrence of manually recorded adverse events, as defined by the DGAI, is compared with automatically detected events.

Design principles of a clinical information system for intensive care units (ICUData).

The aim of this project was to develop a cost-effective, standard-based and scalable clinical information system for use in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The development started in 1998 at the University Giessen, Germany. Since its introduction as the basic documentation system at the ICU ward of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in January 1999, all relevant clinical data of 1723 patients have been recorded.

[Influences and predictors of unanticipated admission after ambulatory surgery].

Unlabelled: In order to plan the daily routine of a surgical day care unit optimally and effectively, it is indispensable to know the causes of unanticipated admission of outpatients. The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the influences and predictors of unanticipated admission of patients in our day care unit for ambulatory surgery. The data sets of 3152 surgical outpatients were evaluated.

[Using an anesthesia information management system (AIMS) for documentation in a day care unit for ambulatory surgery].

Unlabelled: From January 1997 until June 1999, the complete durations of stay of 3152 outpatients were entered into a computerized documentation system. The scope of the data entry went from patient admission to patient release. The objective was to determine the usefulness of the anaesthesia information management system (AIMS) in producing complete and high-quality documentation in the field of outpatient operations.

[From data entry to data presentation at a clinical workstation--experiences with Anesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS)].

Anesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS) are required to supply large amounts of data for various purposes such as performance recording, quality assurance, training, operating room management and research. It was our objective to establish an AIMS that enables every member of the department to independently access queries at his/her work station and at the same time allows the presentation of data in a suitable manner in order to increase the transfer of different information to the clinical workstation. Apple Macintosh Clients (Apple Computer, Inc.

Clinical and practical requirements of online software for anesthesia documentation an experience report.

The aim of this paper is the presentation of a new version of the anesthesia documentation software, NarkoData, that has been used in routine clinical work in our department as part of an anesthesia information management system (AIMS) since 1995. The performance of this software is presented along with requirements for future development of such a system. The originally used version, NarkoData 3.