A care system and associated methods are provided for alleviating patient pain,
anxiety and discomfort associated with medical or surgical procedures. The system
comprises: at least one patient health monitor device generating a signal reflecting
at least one physiological condition of a patient; a drug delivery controller supplying
one or more drugs to the patient; a memory device storing a safety data set reflecting
parameters of at least one patient physiological condition; and an electronic controller
interconnected between the patient health monitor, the drug delivery controller
and the safety data set. A method of electronically tracking recurring revenues
generated by the use of the care system where the system is at the location of
its user is also provided. Additional embodiments of the system and methods are
directed to alleviating patient pain or discomfort while enabling safe patient
controlled drug delivery in correlation with the monitoring of patient health conditions.