Does automated anesthesia drug delivery improve performance compared with conventional manual control?
Automated closed-loop anesthesia delivery systems provide better and more standardized performance than manual control.
Our study in a multicenter setting proves the consistently better performance of automated anesthesia drug delivery compared with conventional manual control. This highlights an important advantage of an automated system for delivering standardized anesthesia, thereby overcoming differences in practices among anesthesiologists.
Puri et al. (2015) studied this question.