APPLIANCE TO PROVIDE A PATIENT CONSCIOUS RELIEF OF PAIN AND ANXIETY ASSOCIATED WITH MEDICAL OR SURGICAL PROCEDURE.

摘要

A device for use by a non-anesthetist user during a surgical and / or medical procedure to provide pain management or sedation to a patient not under general anesthesia and in need of pain or sedation management, said device comprising: a controller (2a) of drug delivery to deliver a drug drug dose regimen to said patient during said procedure, a monitor (12a) having a sensor adapted to be coupled to a patient during said procedure, said monitor generating a signal that reflects data physiological (13b) of the patient for at least one detected physiological condition of the patient, and a processor (14) operatively connected to said monitor and said drug delivery controller; said processor having a stored set of safety data that reflects safe and undesirable parameters of at least one physiological condition of the patient; and wherein said processor operates in accordance with computer logic equipment to receive said signal during said procedure, analyze said physiological patient data reflected in said signal using said parameters to identify when a patient's condition is outside a normal or safe range, and sending signals to the drug delivery controller (2a) instructing said drug delivery controller (2a) to prudently manage drug delivery, if the monitored patient data is outside the normal or safe range.