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An alarm suspend system utilizes an alarm trigger responsive to physiological parameters and corresponding limits on those parameters. The parameters are associated with both fast and slow treatment times corresponding to length of time it takes for a person to respond to medical treatment for out-of-limit parameter measurements. Audible and visual alarms respond to the alarm trigger. An alarm silence button is pressed to silence the audible alarm for a predetermined suspend time. The audible alarm is activated after the suspend time has lapsed. Longer suspend times are associated with slow treatment parameters and shorter suspend times are associated with fast treatment parameters.

Methods and apparatus are provided for selective denervation of conduction pathways in the heart for the treatment of dysrhythmias, including one or more ablation or electroporation catheters having electrodes for stimulating, targeting, and ablating fat pad tissue and other cardiac tissue to selectively denervate heart tissue.

An apparatus and a method for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia are disclosed. The apparatus includes an applicator piece carrying a set of electrodes shaped and positioned to create a substantial electric field in the volume of hyperplasia and a pulse generator adapted for delivery of electrical pulses above the upper electroporation limit for the neoplastic cells. The amplitude, duration and number of the electrical pulses are generally selected to cause necrosis of a significant fraction of the volume of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The apparatus may include a high frequency system for heating the prostatic tissue and a cooling system for cooling the urethra. The combined action of heating and cooling may increase the temperature of the prostate cells to 45 degrees C. to 55 degrees C., while keeping the urinary tract at a temperature 15 degrees C. to 20 degrees C. This temperature distribution can increase the selectivity of the treatment by increasing susceptibility of the neoplastic cells to the electroporation treatment and decreasing it for the normal urethral tissues.

A hair-removing device (1) includes a laser source (3), an adjustable laser beam manipulator (5) for positioning a laser beam (7) of the laser source (3) in a target position (9) on a skin (11) to be treated, and an image sensor (47) for detecting an image (49) of the skin. The hair-removing device further comprises a control unit (17) which determines a position and orientation on the skin of a hair (13) to be removed, and which determines the target position of the laser beam as a function of said position and orientation of the hair. The control unit brings the laser beam manipulator in a state corresponding to the target position of the laser beam, and activates the laser source when the laser beam manipulator has reached said state. Thus, the hair-removing device is suitable for use by inexperienced users, and is particularly suitable for the consumer market. In a particular embodiment, the control unit determines the target position of the laser beam in a position (71) on the skin under which a root (15) of the hair is present, so that the root of the hair is destroyed and the hair-removing device (1) is an epilating device by means of which the hair is removed for a relatively long time or even permanently. In another embodiment, the control unit determines the target position of the laser beam in a position (65) on the hair where the hair comes out of the skin, so that the hair is burnt through near the skin surface and the hair-removing device (1″) is a shaving device by means of which a high skin smoothness is obtained.

An alarm suspend system utilizes an alarm trigger responsive to physiological parameters and corresponding limits on those parameters. The parameters are associated with both fast and slow treatment times corresponding to length of time it takes for a person to respond to medical treatment for out-of-limit parameter measurements. Audible and visual alarms respond to the alarm trigger. An alarm silence button is pressed to silence the audible alarm for a predetermined suspend time. The audible alarm is activated after the suspend time has lapsed. Longer suspend times are associated with slow treatment parameters and shorter suspend times are associated with fast treatment parameters.

A high-power ultrasound heating applicator for minimally-invasive thermal treatment of uterine fibroids or myomas. High-intensity interstitial ultrasound, applied with minimally-invasive laparoscopic or hysteroscopic procedures, is used to effectively treat fibroids within the myometrium in lieu of major surgery. The applicators are configured with high-power capabilities and thermal penetration to treat large volumes of fibroid tissue (>70 cm3) in short treatment times (3-20 minutes), while maintaining three-dimensional control of energy delivery to thermally destroy the target volume.

A blood purification device that does not require measurement of a patient's blood concentration performed ahead of time and that allows treatment time to be reduced, thus reducing the burden on the patient, and allows monitoring of problems in the internal elements. The present invention includes: blood purification device main units including a blood pump disposed in an arterial blood circuit, a blood purification device purifying blood, and an ultrafiltration pump for draining water from blood; first measuring means and second measuring means measuring hematocrit values and disposed at the arterial blood circuit and the venous blood circuit respectively; calculating means calculating a ratio for measured hematocrit values and a ratio for a theoretical hematocrit values determined from a predetermined equation and evaluating means evaluating whether the values determined by calculating means are roughly similar.

Systems and devices according to the present invention providing a needle deployment and visualization device, which includes: a shaft; an ultrasound imaging transducer extendable along at least a portion of the shaft for providing an image within a field of view; and a needle coupled and deployable from the shaft within the field of view. The needle has an artifact configured to preferentially reflect at least a portion of the ultrasound energy emanating from the ultrasound transducer back to the transducer in order to enhance imaging of the needle.

A tissue-piercing device includes two piercing members, and an operation section to which a proximal end of each of the piercing members is connected. Each of the piercing members includes a flexible outer sheath, a slidable inner sheath which is slidably inserted in the outer sheath, and a slidable needle which is inserted in the inner sheath. A switch portion is provided for switching between an operation mode in which a piercing action by the two piercing members is performed in a single operation, and an operation mode in which piercing actions by the two piercing members are performed in respective separate operations. The switch portion includes a sheath-coupling member to couple and decouple the two slidable inner sheaths. The switch portion may include a needle-coupling member to couple and decouple the two slidable needles.

An object of the present invention is to provide a process of producing a toner according to an emulsion aggregation process in which the temperature and treatment time in the fusion process can be reduced, and a toner having a small particle diameter, a sharp particle size distribution, and a properly controlled average circularity can be efficiently produced simply with a small amount of energy. The process includes aggregating a resin fine particles and a colorant fine particles by adding an aggregating agent containing a divalent or higher-valent metal ion, and fusing the resin fine particles and the colorant fine particles to obtain a toner particle by adding a chelating agent and a monovalent metal salt to the aggregate particle dispersion liquid obtained in the aggregation process, and heating the liquid to a temperature of not less than glass transition temperature of the resin.

The invention discloses a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) affinity adsorption column, comprising a column body and at least one activated affinity microsphere located in the column body, wherein the activated affinity microsphere is connected with a human immunodeficiency virus affinity protein, and the affinity protein can be bound with human immunodeficiency virus. The affinity protein comprises a main receptor CD4 molecule, a gp120 antibody, an auxiliary receptor CXC chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR-4) and a CC chemokine receptor 5 (CCR-5). The affinity microsphere may be a glass microsphere with the size of 1mm, a chitosan crosslinking microsphere with the diameter more than 500 microns, or a gluosan microsphere. The human immunodeficiency virus affinity adsorption column disclosed by the invention is applicable for eliminating the human immunodeficiency virus in the blood of HIV patients, and relieving and treating the immunodeficiency syndrome of HIV patients; and compared with the traditional treatment methods, the immunoadsorption column has high safety, good specificity, small toxic or side effects and good operation simplicity.

A Computer Assisted and Robot-Guided Laser Osteotome (CARLO) medical device (1) for perforating hard tissue, having a photoablation laser source (31) mounted in a robotic arm (2), and optical system (37) for focusing a laser beam in a target plane of the ostetomy line featuring an autotracking navigation system (8).

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicinal composition for treating amenorrhoea. The traditional Chinese medicinal composition is prepared from the following active pharmaceutical ingredients according to a certain weight ratio: codonopsis pilosula, prepared rehmannia root, epimeddium, Chinese photinia leaf, Chinese angelica, white peony root, motherwort, Radix Astragali, cornu cervi degelatinatum, bighead atractylodes rhizome, Poria cocos, Uniflower Swisscentaury Root, fructus liquidambaris, motherwort fruit, Cyperus Rotundus L, cassia twig, wolfberry, ligustrum lucidum, semen cuscutae, raspberry, ephedra stem, mulberry bark, achyranthes root, safflower, radix bupleuri, Japanese eupatorium, Radix Curcumae, licorice, ground beetle, leech, balloonflower root and Ligusticum wallichii. The traditional Chinese medicinal composition provided by the invention has advantages of stable curative effect, short treatment time and little side-effect.

There are provided aluminum elements covered on their surfaces with a coating film free from harmful hexavalent chromium compounds and fluorine compounds. Particularly, aluminum dicast and aluminum cast materials having excellent paint adherence and corrosion resistance are provided. The coating film for aluminum elements comprises (i) chromium, (ii) zinc and (iii) cobalt and / or titanium with 95% by mass or more of said chromium being a trivalent chromium.

The invention relates to a device and a method for treating tumors through irreversible electroporation, belonging to the technical field of tumor treatment. The device mainly comprises a square wave pulse generation and measurement system, a signal conversion system, a man-machine communication system, a measurement control system and a power supply system. In the method, the device and a therapeutic electrode are used for treating the tumors through a program. Under the circumstance of no injection of chemotherapeutic drugs, microsecond square wave pulses are applied to tumor tissues, the entire tumor cell is fully damaged, so that the tumor cell dies due to irreversible electroporation, and the harm on the body of a patient caused by the side effect of the chemotherapeutic drugs is radically avoided. The invention has the characteristics of short treatment time, no pain, good treatment effect, high safety, convenient use, simple operation, convenient popularization and application and the like. The device and the method can be widely used for treating the tumors of human and animals, and are especially applicable to human tumor treatment.

Preservative composition for various materials and method of preserving the same is disclosed. The preservative composition includes at least one silane-containing material and at least one hydrocarbon solvent containing molecules of at least five carbon atoms.

A high-power ultrasound heating applicator for minimally-invasive thermal treatment of uterine fibroids or myomas. High-intensity interstitial ultrasound, applied with minimally-invasive laparoscopic or hysteroscopic procedures, is used to effectively treat fibroids within the myometrium in lieu of major surgery. The applicators are configured with high-power capabilities and thermal penetration to treat large volumes of fibroid tissue (>70 cm3) in short treatment times (3-20 minutes), while maintaining three-dimensional control of energy delivery to thermally destroy the target volume.

According to some embodiments, a method of treating a subject having diabetes or symptoms associated with diabetes is provided. The method includes delivering a neuromodulation catheter within a vessel (e.g., hepatic artery) having surrounding nerves that innervate the liver (e.g., sympathetic nerves of the hepatic plexus). The method may also include modulating (e.g., disrupting, ablating, stimulating) the nerves by mechanical compression, energy delivery, or fluid delivery.

A treatment system and method includes use of a chemical facilitator to provide a result-effective event against one or more negative therapeutic effects related to exposing to a light output a skin portion including a condition treatable in whole or in part with light. In one exemplary embodiment for skin treatment including tattoo removal, perfluorodecalin is used to inhibit or resolve whitening, for example to speed a laser therapy session.

The invention relates to the deposition of nanoparticles from the gas phase of the a thermal plasma of a gas discharge and the subsequent attachment of said nanoparticles to the substrate particles. The invention can be used for increasing the flowability of solid bulk material. Particularly the pharmaceutical industry utilizes numerous intermediate and final products in the form of powders which cause processing problems because of the poor flowability thereof. With fine-grained materials, undesired adhesive effects occur foremost because of Van der Waals'forces. Said effects can be reduced by applying nanoparticles to the surface of the material that is to be treated. The invention is characterized by a combined process in which the nanoparticles are produced and are attached to the substrate surface. Using a non-thermal plasma additionally makes it possible to treat temperature-sensitive materials that are often used in the pharmaceutical industry.

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for curing functional uterine bleeding. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from the following raw materials in part by weight: 25-35 parts of angelica sinensis, 25-35 parts of crude dragon bone and crude concha ostreae, 25-35 parts of radix rehmanniae, 25-35 parts of eclipta, 15-25 parts of Chinese yam, 15-25 parts of teasel roots, 15-25 parts of codonopsis pilosula, 15-25 parts of radix astragali, 15-25 parts of glossy privet fruits, 10-20 parts of colla corii asini, 10-20 parts of poria, 10-20 parts of radix paeoniae alba, 10-20 parts of cuscuta chinensis, 10-20 parts of prepared rehmannia roots, 10-20 parts of motherwort, 10-15 parts of carthamus tinctorius, 10-15 parts of waxgourd seeds, 10-15 parts of hairyvein agrimony, 10-15 parts of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, 10-15 parts of nodus nelumbinis rhizomatis, 7-13 parts of field thistle, 7-13 parts of rhizoma cyperi, 7-13 parts of herba lycopi, 7-13 parts of liquorice, 7-13 parts of cimicifugae foetidae, 7-13 parts of radix bupleuri, 7-13 parts of platycodon grandiflorus and 7-13 parts of carbonized hair. The traditional Chinese medicine composition has the advantages of stable curative effect, short curative time and less side effects.

A method for manufacturing an element includes providing a surface layer including a photocatalytic material, and subjecting the surface layer to an activation process including reactively treating the surface layer.

The invention discloses Chinese medicinal capsules for treating primitive high blood pressure of people in middle and old age, which are prepared from the following Chinese medicinal materials (by weight proportion): dried rehmannia root, prepared rhizome of rehmannia each 9.5-11.0%, fleece-flower root, mulberry seeds, ligustrum japonicum, flatstem milkvetch seed, puncturevine, cynomorium songaricum, achyranthes root, dodder seed, radish seeds, white atractylodes rhizome, wolfberry fruit 4.0-6.0%, plantain seeds, cassia seed each 6.5-7.0%, wild chrysanthemum flower, polygala root, acorus gramineus soland each 2.6-4.0%, asarum herb 0.2-2.0%.

The invention discloses a compound traditional Chinese medicine for diminishing inflammation, checking diarrhea and relieving pain. The compound traditional Chinese medicine consists of the following active pharmaceutical ingredients by weight:10-14 grams of poria, 8-12 grams of rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae, 10-14 grams of semen dolichoris album, 8-12 grams of dioscorea opposita, 6-10 grams of myristica fragrans, 10-14 grams of cortex magnoliae officinalis, 8-12 grams of rhizoma atractylodis, 8-12 grams of endoconcha sepiae, 6-10 grams of pericarpium citri reticulatae, 4-8 grams of pinellia tuber, 8-12 grams of inula britannica, 8-12 grams of reddle, 8-12 grams of endothelium corneum gigeriae galli, 8-12 grams of fructus amomi, 8-12 grams of fructus crataegi, 8-12 grams of fructus hordei germinatus, 8-12 grams of semen raphani, 6-10 grams of massa medicata fermentata, 8-12 grams of root of pilose asiabell, 8-12 grams of ixeris denticulata, 8-12 grams of anemone chinensis, 8-12 grams of herba taraxaci, 6-10 grams of fructus litseae, 4-8 grams of lignum dalbergiae odoriferae, 4-8 grams of cortex fraxini, 4-8 grams of pericarpium granati, 8-12 grams of halloysit, 4-8 grams of citrus medica linn, 4-8 grams of fructus citri sarcodactylis, 6-10 grams of corydalis turtschaninovii bess and 6-10 grams of fructus meliae toosendan. The compound traditional Chinese medicine has obvious effects in treating chronic gastritis, dyspepsia, diarrhea and abdominal pain. The compound traditional Chinese medicine has the advantages of short treatment time, good treatment effect, no side effect and the like.

The invention discloses a Chinese herb extract feed additive capable of effectively preventing and treating porcine epizootic diarrhea, and belongs to the field of feed additives. The feed additive is prepared from the main materials of snow grass meal, curcuma powder, semen cassiae powder, burdock powder, shallot white powder, Chinese herbal medicine preparation and curcuma extract, and toadstool and bacillus subtilis are scientifically compounded, so that the application amount of antibiotics medicine in cultivation of pigs is effectively reduced, the use amount of the antibiotic is reduced by above 60%, the drug property of the Chinese herbal medicine is improved, the porcine epizootic diarrhea caused by porcine epidemic diarrhea virus can be effectively prevented and treated, and the Chinese herb extract feed additive is safe and non-toxic. Besides, the amount of the additive in the feed is low, the quality is stable, an acting effect is improved by combining different Chinese herb extracts, the porcine epizootic diarrhea is reduced by 60-80%, and the taste and quality of animal products are obviously improved. A sense experimental evaluation proves that the evaluation score on the taste and quality of the animal products using the additive is improved by above 65%.

The present invention includes a first step of forming a nitride semiconductor layer by metal organic chemical vapor deposition by using a first carrier gas containing a nitrogen carrier gas and a hydrogen carrier gas of a flow quantity larger than that of the nitrogen carrier gas to thereby supply a raw material containing Mg and a Group V raw material containing N, and a second step of lowering a temperature by using a second carrier gas to which a material containing N is added, and hence solves the problems.