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.