Patent ID: 9398863
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: A61B,A61M,G09B,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for detecting an anomaly in a measurement of the hypnotic level of a subject, the method comprising: monitoring using a patient monitor a change in a measure indicative of the hypnotic level in the subject; receiving at a processing unit state information indicative of the activity of the autonomous nervous system of the subject; receiving at the processing unit drug effect information indicative of the hypnotic drug effect in the subject; comparing the change in the measure to one of the drug effect information and the state information; checking with the processing unit whether the change in the measure is a consistent change with at least one of the drug effect information and the state information; and detecting with the processing unit an anomaly, wherein an anomaly is indicative that the change in the measure is not a consistent change with at least one of the drug effect information and the state information, and wherein the anomaly is indicative of an alteration in the normal relation between the measure and the at least one of the drug effect information and the state information.