• Sean Coeckelenbergh, Alexandre Joosten, Maxime Cannesson, and Joseph Rinehart.
• Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, 12 avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif, 94800, France. sean.coeckelenbergh@gmail.com.
• J Clin Monit Comput. 2024 Feb 1; 38 (1): 141-4.

AbstractAnesthesiology and intensive care medicine provide fertile ground for innovation in automation, but to date we have only achieved preliminary studies in closed-loop intravenous drug administration. Anesthesiologists have yet to implement these tools on a large scale despite clear evidence that they outperform manual titration. Closed-loops continuously assess a predefined variable as input into a controller and then attempt to establish equilibrium by administering a treatment as output. The aim is to decrease the error between the closed-loop controller's input and output. In this editorial we consider the available intravenous anesthesia closed-loop systems, try to clarify why they have not yet been implemented on a large scale, see what they offer, and propose the future steps towards automation in anesthesia.© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.

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