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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2021
Applicant:
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NeuroWave Systems Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/172 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61M 19/00 (2006.01); A61M 21/00 (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 involves the 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 involves 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 includes such control systems/methods that account for limitations of such indirect measures/indicia of analgesia.