Table 3.

Categories of AIMS-based clinical decision support

Quality assurance

Maintenance of normothermia notifications

Presurgical antibiotic management notifications

Medication support

Drug-drug interaction checking

Drug-dose calculations

Drug re-dosing reminders

Drug-allergy checking

Regulatory and compliance support

Concurrency checking

Ensuring electronic records contain elements required for  billing

Attending physician attestation statements

Case times (Start of Anesthesia Care, End of Anesthesia  Care)

Case type (General/MAC/Regional)

Patient details (ASA physical status)

Support around critical events

Algorithm display and guidance (Malignant Hyperthermia,  ACLS, ASA Difficult Airway Algorithm)

Critical event detection (chaotic ECG + no pulse-ox wave  form → consider ventricular fibrillation)

ACLS advanced cardiac life support, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists, ECG electrocardiogram, MAC monitored anesthesia care.