Patent ID: 7201734

Claim:
A device to provide sedation to a patient, said device comprising: a drug delivery mechanism for delivering a drug dosage rate of sedative to said patient during a procedure; a patient health monitor adapted so as to be coupled to a patient during said procedure, said monitor generating a signal reflecting measurements of at least one monitored physiological condition of the patient; and a processor operably connected to said patient health monitor and said drug delivery device; said processor having accessible parameters that indicate values for said measurements of said monitored physiological condition, said values correlating to a range of patient conditions associated with said procedure; and wherein said processor operates according to software to receive said signal during said procedure, analyze said measurements reflected in said signal using said parameters to identify onset or possible onset of a patient condition outside of a normal range, and generate a signal indicating possible modifications of said drug dosage rate to remedy said onset or possible onset of said patient condition, wherein said processor signal indicates an action dependent upon an extent by which said current measurements are outside said normal range.