Anesthesia Documentation Typing
Anesthesia documentation is short, dense, and repeated many times a day: a pre-op evaluation, an intra-op record, and a PACU note for every case. The corpus includes anesthesia-specific lines, and the presets load them alongside the drugs you dose most.
Anesthesia: pre-op and PACU lines Anesthesia: airway, procedures, and drugs
Preset links open the trainer with those settings already applied; you can change them afterward.
Three documents, three vocabularies
The pre-op evaluation is history and exam shorthand: ASA class, airway exam (Mallampati score, thyromental distance, neck range of motion, dentition), NPO status, prior anesthetics and complications, and a plan. The intra-op record is mostly structured fields, but the free-text portions are induction and airway events, drugs with doses and times, and any deviation from the plan. The PACU note is a handoff: airway, vitals, pain and nausea plan, blocks placed, and disposition. Each has a different word list, and the trainer's Note Phrases category includes lines from all three.
Doses are the whole game
Anesthesia drugs are dosed by weight, given as boluses and infusions, and documented with times. That means milligrams and micrograms, decimals, and rate units such as mcg/kg/min on nearly every line. Set the dosing slider to 100 percent and keep both drug categories on. The generic drug list includes induction agents, neuromuscular blockers and reversal agents, opioids, local anesthetics, vasopressors, and antiemetics, and the brand list covers the ones still referred to by trade name in most ORs.
Airway shorthand
MP II (Mallampati), TMD (thyromental distance), MO (mouth opening), ROM (neck range of motion), DL and VL (direct and video laryngoscopy), grade I view, ETT 7.5 at 22 cm at the teeth, LMA, RSI (rapid sequence induction), and ETCO2. Most groups have their own template, so treat these as practice text and follow your department's conventions in the chart.
Regional and pain lines
Block documentation follows a pattern: block type, side, approach, needle and ultrasound guidance, local anesthetic with volume and concentration, and complications. Lines like Interscalene block placed under US guidance w/ 20 mL of ropivacaine and bupivacaine 0.25% 20 mL mix a percent sign, a decimal, and volumes with long words, which is the combination the per-key heatmap most often flags.
A session that fits between cases
Three minutes with the first preset above, Block error mode, is enough to keep the number row and the symbol keys sharp. The ICU page covers the overlapping vent and infusion vocabulary, and the abbreviations page has the general shorthand reference.