Topics addressed in the field are object oriented software design, man machine interaction and safety considerations. Back to the Top 2. One way of evaluating the performance of automatic control is to compare it to manual control by the anesthetist. It is however superior, if the anesthetist's attention is distracted by other tasks. Treating Measurement Artifacts Routine manipulations of an anesthetist can temporarily distort the measurements signal.
Examples are the taking of blood samples or the auto calibration of a gas monitor.
Such artifacts may seriously degrade controller performance. Our research thus is also concerned with finding elegant ways of treating these artifacts with guaranteed stability of the closed loop control system. Treatment Back to the Top 4. The site of action of many anaesthetic drugs is deemed to be the brain. However, current analysis techniques are not sufficiently developed yet to provide a reliable indicator for the depth of anaesthesia.