Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) is a prefered pain management therapy for patients who have undergone some form of physical trauma (e.g. surgery, vehicular accident, etc). PCA typically is delivered using a PCA pump; when the patient wants pain relief they press a trigger attached to the pump which causes the pump to release a bolus of pain medication. Unfortunately, PCA therapy is implicated in many serious medical accidents due to the potential for overdose. This video shows how PCA could be safer if medical devices could truly interoperate with each other.
