Patent ID: 8567393

Claim:
An improved system for enabling a non-anesthestist practioner to provide safe and effective sedation with the drug propofol to a patient undergoing a medical procedure performed by a procedural physician without general anesthesia, the system comprising: one or more patient health monitor devices adapted so as to receive a signal reflecting at least one physiological condition of said patient; a drug delivery controller for administering the drug propofol to said patient; a user interface sub-system for receiving user input from said non-anesthetist relating to patient weight, and for providing system information regarding the supply of propofol, information regarding the at least one physiological condition, and information that warns said non-anesthetist said user via said user interface if said administration of propofol has placed the patient in one of the following conditions: general anesthesia, low SpO 2 , low respiratory rate, respiratory obstruction, loss of responsiveness, bradycardia, tachycardia, excessively high or low arterial blood pressures, and an electronic controller having a data set reflecting safe and/or unsafe parameters of the al least one physiological condition operably connected to the one or more patient health monitor devices, the drug delivery controller, and the user interface sub-system; wherein said electronic controller receives said signal reflecting at least one physiological condition and said user input, and in response manages the application of propofol.