JANUS: a third generation system for automatic record keepingduring open heart surgery

摘要

An integrated heart surgery system is under development. Thesystem is the successor of two previous custom-built generations ofautomatic charting systems for the anesthetist and the perfusionistduring heart surgery. The system can be used to collect, present andarchive all important physiological parameters, the medical events andthe medical, and administrative data. Janus offers multiple views on thedata collected during an operation. By configuration a view for theanesthetist as well as a view for the perfusionist can be created. Thesystem is connected to the monitoring system, our custom-builtheart-lung system and the servo ventilators. It includes access to thehospital information system, and the departmental information systems ofthe Thoraxcenter. The first preliminary version of this system will beintroduced in our operation rooms in the fall/winter of 1996