Patent ID: 11972843
Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 13:
14. A method for automatically guiding procedural sedation, comprising:
identifying sedation agent information including at least one of a time, a type, and an amount of sedation agent administered to a patient;
computing, using a pharmacokinetic model, a concentration of sedation agent in the body of the patient based, at least in part, on the sedation agent information;
computing a first predicted sedation level based, at least in part, on the computed concentration;
selecting a candidate dose of sedation agent based, at least in part, on the sedation agent information;
computing a second predicted sedation level based, at least in part, on the candidate dose of sedation agent; and
displaying, to guide the dosing and timing of sedation agent to a patient:
(a) the computed concentration and/or the first predicted sedation level, and
(b) the candidate dose of sedation agent and the second predicted sedation level.