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SVMIC Anesthesiology: Common Risk Issues

FUNDAMENTALS: INTRA-OPERATIVE

Ensure there is detailed documentation reflecting the intra-
operative anesthesia management and patient monitoring

of:

• Emergency response and interventions

• Maneuvers utilized for managing a difficult airway

• Position and padding

• Time-outs

• Presence of an anesthesiologist during key
portions of the procedure

Anesthesia Information Management Systems

Anesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS)
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are in use in many hospitals and facilities. This technology

allows the automatic and reliable collection, storage, and
presentation of patient data during the perioperative period.

They are specialized forms of EHR systems that, in addition
to providing basic record-keeping functions, typically provide

end users with ready access to summary data that can be used
to facilitate quality assurance and research functions. Most

AIMS systems will have an Anesthesia Preoperative Evaluation
System, Anesthesia Consent, an Intraoperative Anesthesia

Recordkeeping System, an Anesthesia Postoperative Evaluation,
and an Administration Web Interface. A typical AIMS installation

will be a hardware/software solution that interfaces with the
intraoperative patient monitors. Increasingly, these systems also

have the ability to read and write data from the main hospital

10 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387486/

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