Contributions to a decision support system based on depth of anesthesia signals

• Published in: 2012 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Sebastiáo, Raquel, Silva, Margarida M., Gama, Joáo, Mendonça, Teresa
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2012
• Subjects: Anesthesia; Decision support systems; Detection algorithms; Drugs; Monitoring; Noise; Surgery

In the clinical practice the concerns about the administration of hypnotics and analgesics for minimally invasive diagnostics and therapeutic procedures have enormously increased in the past years. The automatic detection of changes in the signals used to evaluate the depth of anesthesia is hence of...