The modern anesthesiologist's manual: the development and maintenance of an anesthesia case reference application

Anesthesia clinicians care for patients undergoing a wide range of procedures, making access to reliable references crucial. However, existing resources have key limitations. This technical report describes the development of an in-house anesthesia case reference application designed for use in a tertiary academic hospital. Additionally, it details our experiences in maintaining this system over a 22-month period and compares this system to alternative resources. Utilizing JavaScript and the React library, we developed a cross-platform perioperative reference application. Over fifty articles, encompassing anesthetic considerations for various surgical disciplines, have been created. Furthermore, we conducted a preliminary analysis of analytics data. In the 22 months since the application's inception, the application has garnered over 22,000 views from local users. While there are more than 150 registered users, the number of unregistered users accessing the application on the hospital network remains unknown. Notably, 70