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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 12, 2017
Applicant:

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA;

Inventors:

Guy Dumont, Vancouver, CA;

Klaske Van Heusden, Vancouver, CA;

Mark Ansermino, Vancouver, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 31/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/172 (2006.01); A61M 19/00 (2006.01); A61M 21/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/172 (2013.01); A61B 5/4821 (2013.01); A61M 19/00 (2013.01); A61M 21/00 (2013.01); A61B 5/7203 (2013.01); A61M 5/14 (2013.01); A61M 2230/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to administration of clinical anesthesia. Particular embodiments provide systems and methods for controlled delivery of a combination of an analgesic agent and a hypnotic agent. More specifically, the invention relates to closed-loop control systems/methods for automatically controlling the administration of a combination of a hypnotic agent and an analgesic agent in a clinical anesthesia setting which incorporate feedback based on one or more indirect measures/indicia of analgesia. The invention further relates to such control systems/methods that account for limitations of such indirect measures/indicia of analgesia.


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