Documentation of anesthesia and the physiological parameters of the patient are done parallel with the anesthesiological care. With increasing computerized documentation in healthcare, computer systems for automatic record keeping in anesthesia has also arrived. The purpose of this study was to examine whether automatic journals for anesthesia, AIMS, has an input on the anesthesiological patient care peroperatively? The method used is a literary review of eleven scientific articles. By using an automatic anesthesia journal, 20 percent less time is used for documentation and more time is spent for monitoring the physiologic parameters. All data collected automatically shows a larger amount of variation in the registered hemodynamic values, even though the amount of data was larger and a higher rate of unlikely blood pressure measurements was noticed. Automatic registration of physiological data gives a more correct and objective way of reporting the hemodynamic data of the patient in comparison to manual registration. The conclusion drawn out of this study is that AIMS increases patient security and contributes to the reliability and the quality assurance needed to secure anesthesiological documentation.