| abstract |
A care system and associated methods are provided for alleviating patient pain, anxiety and discomfort associated with medical or surgical procedures. The care system facilitates a procedural clinician's safely and efficaciousl y providing sedation and analgesia and in some measure, amnesia to a patient b y providing a responsiveness monitoring system (12) which monitors the responsiveness of the patient and generates a value representing the level o f patient responsiveness. In further aspects of the invention, the responsiveness monitoring system is an automated system which includes patie nt query and response devices. Additional embodiments of the system and methods are directed to alleviating patient pain or discomfort while enabling safe drug delivery in correlation with the monitoring of patient health condition s. |