Open AccessAutomatic Notifications Mediated by Anesthesia Information Management Systems Reduce the Frequency of Prolonged Gaps in Blood Pressure Documentation
Author(s) -
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld,
Richard H. Epstein,
Stephen O. Bader,
Sachin Kheterpal,
Warren S. Sandberg
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31820d95e7
Subject(s) - medicine , documentation , anesthesia , blood pressure , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , computer science , programming language
Arterial blood pressure (BP) measurement at least every 5 minutes is part of the American Society of Anesthesiologists' monitoring standard, but prolonged BP gaps in electronic anesthesia records have been noted. We undertook multicenter studies to determine the frequency of cases with at least 1 interval ≥10 minutes between successive BP measurements and then to ascertain whether educational feedback via an electronic, near real-time notification system alerting providers to the presence of such gaps would reduce their incidence.