Anesthesia Information Management System in cardiac surgery

A new Anesthesia Information Management System has been developed at Heart Hospital of G. Monasterio CNR - Tuscany Region Foundation in Massa. It is specialized in recording anesthesia-related perioperative patient data during cardiac surgery on either adult or pediatric patients. The system was aimed at integrating all patient data partly filled in by the operator, partly SQL-retrieved from the Hospital Information System, and partly gathered, by HL7, from Operating Room instrumentation. Software was developed in Java, achieving reliability and cross-platform capability. Operation reports for surgeon´s convenience are automatically created in the HIS medical record at start of surgery. HTML reports are provided and printed out. AIMS was introduced in ORs since March 2011, using medical-grade computers close to patient bed. This system could be potentially deployed to other institutions, not limiting to cardiac interventions.