摘要 |
<p>System for quantifying the general anesthetic effect of general anesthetics on a human or an animal comprising means (10, 11, 12) for transmitting a series of constant strength stimuli to the input side (9) of the nervous system (7, 8, 9) of the human or animal to evoke time restricted responses at the output side (7) of the nervous system, and means (14, 15, 16, 17) for detecting the evoked responses and for processing corresponding detection signals. By comparing the strength of responses evoked before any anesthetic was administered to the strength of responses evoked during the administering of anesthetic the depth of the resulting anesthesia can be determined unambiguously between 0 and 100 % avoiding thereby an eventual overdose of anesthetic.</p> |