摘要 |
The present invention consists of an apparatus for the on-line identification of drug effect using drug interactions and physiologic signals, in particular the interaction between anaesthetics and analgesics combined with the electroencephalogram for precise assessment of the level of consciousness in awake, sedated and anaesthetised patients. In a preferred embodiment the apparatus comprises: two infusion devices, for example syring pumps, which are connected to the patient (1) adapted to deliver hypnotics (2) and analgesics (3). The infusion data from the pumps are fed into an interaction model (5); an interaction model characterized by a Neural Network which is adapted to estimate the parameters of the model online and in real-time for drug interaction between anaesthetics and an analgesics, an EEG instrumentation amplifier; a processing unit adapted to calculate an EEG index of the level of consciousness (ELC); a fuzzy logic reasoner adapted to merge extracted EEG parameters into an index.
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