A TABLET-BASED DOCUMENTATION TOOL FOR IN-HOSPITAL RESUSCITATIONS

摘要

The exact documentation of cardiopulmonary resuscitations—in particular the exact time of interventiondelivery—is important for checking and improving quality. However, due to time-critical, stressfultreatment and mostly retrospective documentation, data quality is often poor. This paper describes thedevelopment of a tablet-based application for documentation of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitationsthat enables real-time documentation by a member of the resuscitation team. The application wasdeveloped following a comprehensive user-centered design process. Due to an efficient context-relatedinformation architecture, the application has the potential to enable real-time documentation of certaininterventions and to accelerate time-consuming documentation after the resuscitation ended. Furthermore,the use of the application may contribute to the optimization of resuscitation processes and resuscitationtraining by providing more accurate and reliable data.