Effects of Automated Versus Manual Record Keeping on Anesthesiologists’ Performance: a Simulation Study

摘要

Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS)allows automatic importing real-time vital signs fromphysiological monitors to replace anesthesiologists’ traditionalmanual record keeping. It has been increasingly implementedin operating theater to provide an automated anesthesia record.At least 84% of all residency programs are expected to adoptAIMS between 2018 and 2020 (Stol, Ehrenfeld, & Epstein,2014). Yet despite the increasing popularity of AIMS, only ahandful of studies have examined the impact of automatedrecord keeping on anesthesiologists’ performance (i.e.Vigilance, situation awareness (SA) and mental workload). Forexample, various studies had examined the effect of automatedrecord keeping on anesthesiologists’ vigilance but producedmixed results (Allard, Dzwonczyk, Yablok, Block, &McDonald, 1995; Kay and Neal, 1986; Loeb, 1995; Weinger,Herndon, & Gaba, 1997; Yablok,1990).