<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><bold>BACKGROUND.</bold> Starting from the European and American guidelines regarding sedation during gastrointestinal investigations and continuing with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) recommendations, we have developed a software that helps the ENT specialist to decide whether the patient can undergo a moderate sedation in the operating room, or in the outpatient office, during the drug-induced sleep endoscopy.<bold>MATERIAL AND METHODS.</bold> The application is written in C#, using the. NET Framework, and is available for the Windows operating system. The application has a very simple and user-friendly interface, and a bare-bones implementation, focusing strictly on the decision-making process.<bold>RESULTS</bold>. The application involves the information obtained from patient history, clinical examination and polysomnography. After filling all the patient’s data, it will show the result that can be one of the following: ”treatment can be ambulatory”, “treatment should be done in the hospital” or “treatment is not recommended”.<bold>CONCLUSION.</bold> The decision-making software application may substitute the evaluation of the anaesthesiologist during drug-induced sleep endoscopy in certain conditions.</abstract>

BACKGROUND. Starting from the European and American guidelines regarding sedation during gastrointestinal investigations and continuing with the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) recommendations, we have developed a software that helps the ENT specialist to decide whether the patient can undergo a moderate sedation in the operating room, or in the outpatient office, during the drug-induced sleep endoscopy.MATERIAL AND METHODS. The application is written in C#, using the. NET Framework, and is available for the Windows operating system. The application has a very simple and user-friendly interface, and a bare-bones implementation, focusing strictly on the decision-making process.RESULTS. The application involves the information obtained from patient history, clinical examination and polysomnography. After filling all the patient’s data, it will show the result that can be one of the following: ”treatment can be ambulatory”, “treatment should be done in the hospital” or “treatment is not recommended”.CONCLUSION. The decision-making software application may substitute the evaluation of the anaesthesiologist during drug-induced sleep endoscopy in certain conditions.

Administration of anaesthesia during drug-induced sleep endoscopy: implementation of a computer system to assist the decision on how to administer analgosedation

“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

“Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Romanian Journal of Rhinology

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BACKGROUND. Starting from the European and American guidelines regarding sedation during gastrointestinal investigations and continuing with the American...

Administration of anaesthesia during drug-induced sleep endoscopy: implementation of a computer system to assist the decision on how to administer analgosedation

Published Online: Nov 04, 2020

Page range: 117 - 122

Received: Jun 25, 2020

Accepted: Aug 04, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjr-2020-0025

Keywords
drug-induced sleep endoscopy, analgosedation, software application

© 2020 Nicoleta Dumitrescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Administration of anaesthesia during drug-induced sleep endoscopy: implementation of a computer system to assist the decision on how to administer analgosedation

Published Online: Nov 04, 2020

Page range: 117 - 122

Received: Jun 25, 2020

Accepted: Aug 04, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjr-2020-0025

Keywordsdrug-induced sleep endoscopy, analgosedation, software application

© 2020 Nicoleta Dumitrescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
drug-induced sleep endoscopy, analgosedation, software application