Reducing Volatile Anesthetic Waste Using a Commercial Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support Tool to Lower Fresh Gas Flows.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Volatile anesthetic consumption can be reduced by minimizing excessive fresh gas flows (FGFs). Currently, it is unknown whether decision support tools embedded within commercial electronic health record systems can be successfully adopted to achieve long-term reductions in FGF rates. The authors describe the implementation of an electronic health record-based clinical decision support tool aimed at reducing FGF and evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention in achieving sustained reductions in FGF rates and volatile anesthetic consumption.

Methods

On August 29, 2018, we implemented a decision support tool within the Epic Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) to alert providers of high FGF (>0.7 L/min for desflurane and >1 L/min for sevoflurane) duri

SUBMITTER: Olmos AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9846579 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature