Safety Concerns
The single most significant difference in supporting anesthesia technology, as distinguished from any other clinical engineering function, is that there is a susceptible patient
connected to life-support equipment, and they are given medications that bring them relatively
close to death. Anesthesiologists are keenly aware of this. As a whole, stress levels
of people in operating rooms are exacerbated because the patient has undergone two
forms of injury when on an OR table. They have suffered the initial illness or trauma that
has brought them to the OR, and they must undergo the trauma of the surgical procedure
itself. It can be difficult to believe that the patient often must experience additional trauma
in order to get better.