• Comput Methods Programs Biomed · Aug 2004

    Migrating from target-controlled infusion to closed-loop control in general anaesthesia.

    • C H Ting, R H Arnott, D A Linkens, and A Angel.
    • Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, National Chiayi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2004 Aug 1;75(2):127-39.

    AbstractThe target-controlled infusion (TCI) technique has been successfully and commercially used in clinical general anaesthesia with the intravenous anaesthetic agent propofol. The technique is based on a population pharmacokinetic model and is an open-loop control system. Closed-loop control requires a reliable and consistent signal for feedback utilisation. With all anaesthetic agents the somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) have been shown to give increased latency as anaesthetic depth is increased. Using infusion rate and SEP response data from rats anaesthetised with propofol a mathematical model was derived to describe the anaesthetic process. This model was used as a design reference to develop a proportional integral (PI) closed-loop control system using SEP as the feedback measure. A serials of 10 trials were conducted to investigate the difference between continuous bolus injection and infusion, all under closed-loop control. The trials showed that the use of SEPs in closed-loop control of anaesthesia is feasible.

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