Method and apparatus for judging a depth of anesthesia
First Claim
1. A method of judging a depth of anesthesia comprising:
- detecting a pre-anesthesia skin potential from a predetermined region of a living body before administration of an anesthetic agent;
detecting a post-anesthesia skin potential after administration of the anesthetic agent;
setting a threshold level on the basis of at least said pre-anesthesia skin potential;
judging said depth of anesthesia by comparing said post-anesthesia skin potential levels with said threshold level; and
activating an alarm on the basis of a result of said judging step.
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Abstract
The apparatus has: electrodes (E1 to E6) which are to be attached to a predetermined region of a living body; a skin potential measuring unit (1) which detects the skin potential from the electrodes; a judging unit (3) which detects and stores the skin potential before administration of an anesthetic agent, which detects and stores that after administration of the anesthetic agent, which sets a threshold to be an arbitrary level, on the basis of a change from the stored skin potential before administration of the anesthetic agent to the stored skin potential after administration of the anesthetic agent, and which compares the time-varying skin potential with the threshold, thereby judging the depth of anesthesia; and an alarm unit (6) which raises an alarm in accordance with instructions from the judging unit.
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1. A method of judging a depth of anesthesia comprising:
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detecting a pre-anesthesia skin potential from a predetermined region of a living body before administration of an anesthetic agent; detecting a post-anesthesia skin potential after administration of the anesthetic agent; setting a threshold level on the basis of at least said pre-anesthesia skin potential; judging said depth of anesthesia by comparing said post-anesthesia skin potential levels with said threshold level; and activating an alarm on the basis of a result of said judging step. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4)
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2. An apparatus for judging a depth of anesthesia, comprising an electrode to be attached to a predetermined region of a living body;
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a skin potential measuring unit for detecting a skin potential from said electrode; a judging unit for detecting a pre-anesthesia skin potential before administration of an anesthetic agent, for detecting a post-anesthesia skin potential after administration of the anesthetic agent, for setting a threshold level on the basis of at least said pre-anesthesia skin potential, and for judging said depth of anesthesia by comparing said post-anesthesia skin potential levels with said threshold level and an alarm unit for activating an alarm in accordance with an output signal from said judging unit. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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