Abstract:

BACKGROUND: During traditional clinical surgery, on the one hand anesthesia machine is used to monitor each parameter of the anesthesia and on the other hand to monitor vital signs information of patients, so there exists complicated line and equipment takes up workspace problems.
OBJECTIVE: To improve the defect of space occupied by anesthesia machine and each monitoring equipment work alone.
METHODS: A computer-based search of Wanfang database was performed by the first author for relevant articles in September 2011 with the key words of “anesthesia workstation, anesthesia care information management, embedded systems” in Chinese. Totally, 195 articles were retrieved, and finally 24 articles were included in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: As the continuous development of clinical anesthesia technology, multi-functional, high-security of inhalation anesthesia and improved anesthesia monitoring and patients management system are increasingly important in the modern medicine. During surgery, anesthesia machine not only need to monitor anesthesia data parameters, and always monitor vital signs information of the patient. But cultural clinical surgical procedures are currently monitoring mode by using anesthesia machines with ancillary equipments, so there is space usage problem. This article introduces the core of an embedded system, developed a kind of a new multi-functional anesthesia machine which combined anesthesia information management with body information monitoring function.