Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Mar 2002
Review[Applications of informatics in anesthesiology: anesthesia graphics].
Computerization has brought radical changes to anesthesiology. Quality of care, management, cost control, training, research, safety and privacy have all improved. ⋯ The computer graphic display of anesthesia is more precise, legible, complete and reliable (during critical events, in substitutions of anesthesiologists or for research) than the traditional graph. One of the greatest problems of computer graphing today--besides start-up costs--is that of inserting comments on monitoring artifacts, given that the graph is a legally valid medical document.