Patent ID: 7044930

Claim:
An arrangement for inducing a state of anesthesia in a living creature and maintaining that creature in the state by intravenously administering to the creature a quantity and/or volume of anesthesia-inducing medication, comprising: a basic unit having a basic unit contact and a basic unit housing including a housing recess configured to simultaneously receive multiple modular units therein; and one of said modular units being attachable in parallel with respect to another modular unit within the housing recess and electrically connectable to the basic unit via said basic unit contact, said modular units being insertable into the housing recess via the basic unit contact and detachable therefrom, at least one of the modular units being configured to cooperate with the basic unit to activate one or more functions stored in the basic unit as computer software, said one or more functions being related to anesthetizing a creature, and at least one of the modular units being configured to measure and/or monitor the diagnostic criteria of the creature or control the therapeutic criteria of the creature; wherein at least one modular unit contains a processor connected to a system identification circuit with a selected electronic interface, and a function-related sensor operatively connected to the system identification circuit; and wherein the least one modular unit contains a module-identification and/or function-identification circuit with the system identification circuit; the module-identification circuit and/or function-identification circuit being configured to activate computer software stored in the basic unit; and wherein at least one of the modular units is configured with hardware and/or software related to a plurality of selected functions.