Computer-assisted generation of anaesthesia report during laparoscopic procedures

Abstract

Automatic generation of intraoperative anaesthesia reports has great potential to generate accurate and efficient documentation and allow the anaesthesiologists to utilise their time more optimally. However, automatically generating anaesthesia reports represents a demanding component in future operating rooms. In this paper, a computer-assisted system for anaesthesiology report generation during laparoscopic surgery is proposed. Data from anaesthesia machine, patient monitor, and surgical devices were acquired and analysed. The system proved to generate more accurate, efficient, and better readable reports compared to hand-written ones by clinicians. Moreover, additional information that describes surgical activities and events was also added by analysing surgical data.

Keywords

• anaesthesia protocol
• data fusion
• operating room
• context-aware system
• medical report