ASIC for a system for clinical objective evaluation of induced pharmacological neuromuscular blockage

Author

Remolina, J. ; Zepeda, H. ; Miranda, J. ; Rosas, J. ; Nohe, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ingenieria Electr., I.P.N, Mexico

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

194

Abstract

Except for the output transistor, and the force transducer, the Application Special Integrated Circuit (ASIC) described herein contains all the electronic components of a system for the objective clinical evaluation of the neuromuscular blockage produced in patients, for medical purposes, by the intravenous injection of muscle relaxing drugs. The system contains three sections: an electric stimulator for motor nerves; a section that receives the signals coming from a force transducer attached to the corresponding muscle, evaluates the relative strength of the ensuing muscular contractions and stores the results in four registers, and a section that drives a liquid crystal display

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical electronics; driver circuits; medical signal processing; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; neuromuscular stimulation; patient monitoring; 2.5 micron; ASIC; LCD driver; clinical objective evaluation; electric stimulator; force transducer signals; induced pharmacological neuromuscular blockage; intravenous injection; liquid crystal display; motor nerves; muscle relaxing drugs; muscular contractions; registers; Application specific integrated circuits; Biomedical transducers; Counting circuits; Delay; Driver circuits; Frequency conversion; Liquid crystal displays; Neuromuscular; Pulse shaping methods; Registers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design of Mixed-Mode Integrated Circuits and Applications, 1999. Third International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Puerto Vallarta

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5588-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMICA.1999.833632

Filename

833632