[The computerized anaesthetic record of the 'Universitätsklinik Köln' (author's transl)]

Some of the main arguments are presented which led us to develop our present anaesthetic record. This record system and a part of its voluminous code is described. The new version provides for the documentation of arbitrarily complicated status, which are due to the preoperative condition of the patient. Furthermore, the course of aneaesthesia and its effects upon the patient can be numerically recorded in a detailed fashion. The punching is affected by a small rate of error only.