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Pain medications are drugs used to relieve discomfort associated with disease, injury, or surgery. Because the pain process is complex, there are many types of pain drugs that provide relief by acting through a variety of physiological mechanisms.
Closed loop pain management infusion
The invention refers to an apparatus for controlling a drug infusion pump. The drug is preferably a pain medication. The apparatus controls the infusion pump to apply an infusion protocol, wherein an infusion protocol defines times and amounts of drug infusion. A providing unit provides monitoring data of a patient during the application of an infusion protocol, wherein the monitoring data is indicative of an effect of the infused drug on the respective patient. A customized protocol determination unit determines a customized infusion protocol based on the currently applied infusion protocol and the monitoring data. A controlling unit controls the infusion pump to apply the customized infusion protocol instead of the currently applied protocol.
Owner:MICREL MEDICAL DEVICES SA