Introduction of the Anesthesia Patient Data Management System and Problems in the Use at Tokai University Hachioji Hospital

Abstract

  In our hospital operating room, the anesthesia patient data management system was introduced. Various problems by a computer will be classified into the following five categories if the generated failures are classified: 1) hard failure, 2) soft failure, 3) failure in use, 4) operation mistake, 5) and other failure. The cause of a hard failure is the problem of the hardness of a terminal itself. As a cause of soft failure and the failure in use, the problems with the defect of the compatibility of the computing environment by a data volume load, the electronic chart introduced in the hospital and the anesthesia patient data management system introduced in the operating room, are mentioned. An operation mistake is simply a human error. It was difficult to have involved various factors from many cases, when classifying system failures, and to distinguish correctly what kind of failure it actually is.