A medical effector system comprises a) a microprocessor-based bedside monitoring unit； b) a microprocessor-based procedure room and C) an umbilical cable. The microprocessor-based bedside monitoring unit has a bedside-monitoring unit host controller, has a first series of connection points for receiving patient inputs from patient monitoring connections has a second series of connection points for outputting patient outputs based on the received inputs, and has a display screen for displaying at least some of the patient outputs. a microprocessor-based procedure room unit having a medical effector, and The microprocessor-based procedure room has a medical effector, has a drug-delivery flow control assembly and a procedure-room-unit host controller with a memory containing a patient-monitoring and end-effector-scheduling program which is operatively connected to program inputs based at least in part on at least some of the patient outputs and controls, and/or advises a user to control, the medical effector based at least in part on the program inputs. The procedure room unit (PRU) has an individual PRU identifier and the bedside monitoring unit (BMU) has an individual BMI identifier. The umbilical cable has a first end attached or attachable to the second series of connection points of the bedside monitoring unit and has a second end attached or attachable to the procedure room unit. At least one of the first and second ends is detachable from the corresponding bedside monitoring unit or the procedure room unit, and the procedure-room-unit host controller and the bedside-monitoring unit host controller are operatively connected together when the umbilical cable is attached to the procedure room unit and the bedside monitoring unit.
