Abstract Details

Presented By: Tams, Carl
Affiliated with: University of Utah, Bio-engineering
Authors: Carl Tams, Noah Syroid, Dwayne Westenskow
From: University of Utah
Title
Minimizing post-surgery wake up time while providing adequate analgesia
Abstract

In anesthetia multiple drugs are used to ensure a patient’s well being during the surgical procedure. Certain drug to drug relationships react additively, antagonistically, or synergistically. It is difficult for the anesthesiologist to know exactly how the patient will react, or re-emerge from an anesthetic experience. By tracking a history of administered drugs during a surgery, we can estimate the future recovery time and recommend optimum concentrations with the quickest recovery time and adequate analgesia. Past research has optimized a two drug, constant infusion, procedure. This optimization will include various drugs both intravenous and inhaled and with varying infusion rates. This will be a powerful tool used by anesthesiologist during surgery to provide optimal drug cocktails with surgery and patient specificity.