Patent ID: 8528546

Claim:
A process, comprising the steps of: determining one or more minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) values of at least one gas during an anesthesia process wherein said one or more MAC values comprises one or more of an inspiratory MAC value, an expiratory MAC value, a MAC value filtered as a function of a reaction time and another MAC value of the least one gas; filtering said one or more MAC values over a period of time; automatically setting a lower and/or upper warning limit when said one of said one or more MAC values is greater than a lower threshold value, wherein said lower and/or upper warning limit are based on a predetermined percentage of lowest and/or highest values of said one or more MAC values; providing at least one activatable alarm device; providing an automatic activation device; activating said at least one activatable alarm device from a non-activated state to an activated state via said automatic activation device when said one or more MAC values is greater than the lower threshold value; and sending an alarm with said at least one activatable alarm device in said activated state when said one or more MAC values is less than the lower warning limit or greater than the upper warning limit.