Preoperative information management system using wireless PDAs.
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and wireless communication are currently available in clinical settings. We developed wireless PDA software that assists anesthesiologists in pre-operative patient assessment. The device communicates with the hospital information system through a wireless LAN and is equipped with pre-programmed data entry templates for pre-operative assessment. As a preliminary test of the device, we randomly assigned residents in preoperative assessment to an intervention and a control arm and compared the results.
Sawa
Tomohiro
T
Department of Anesthesia, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Okahara
Masaharu
M
Santo
Masayuki
M
Schmidt
Ulrich
U
Nakata
Yoshinori
Y
Morita
Shigeho
S
Ohno-Machado
Lucila
L
D000776:Anesthesiology; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012984:Software