66 results about "Acute confusion" patented technology

A method and system for determining the fall risk of a patient is provided. The method includes the evaluation of a patient to determine whether the patient exhibits one or more intrinsic fall risk factors selected from a group consisting of confusion, depression, altered elimination, dizziness, male gender, antiepileptic / anticonvulsant prescriptions and benzodiazepine prescriptions. A specific point value is assigned to each of the intrinsic risk factors found to be exhibited by the patient. A mobility test is also performed on the patient to evaluate the patient's ability to rise from a seated position, and a specific mobility test point value is assigned to the patient based upon the patient's performance of the mobility test. Each intrinsic risk factor's specific point value is then summed together with the specific mobility test point value to achieve a total risk score, and the patient's fall risk is determined based on the total risk score. An intervention process may be developed for the patient based on the patient's fall risk.

A method and system for determining the fall risk of a patient is provided. The method includes the evaluation of a patient to determine whether the patient exhibits one or more intrinsic fall risk factors selected from a group consisting of confusion, depression, altered elimination, dizziness, male gender, antiepileptic / anticonvulsant prescriptions and benzodiazepine prescriptions. A specific point value is assigned to each of the intrinsic risk factors found to be exhibited by the patient. A mobility test is also performed on the patient to evaluate the patient's ability to rise from a seated position, and a specific mobility test point value is assigned to the patient based upon the patient's performance of the mobility test. Each intrinsic risk factor's specific point value is then summed together with the specific mobility test point value to achieve a total risk score, and the patient's fall risk is determined based on the total risk score. An intervention process may be developed for the patient based on the patient's fall risk.

A patient-centric, community-based system and method that professionally and effectively manages and services all patient-pay receivables associated with an individual's healthcare. The system permits patients to charge all out-of-pocket expenses for medical goods or services from different providers to one convenient, Patient Account, thereby reducing patient / responsible party confusion and permitting a single monthly payment. The Patient Accounts are “owned” pro rata by the healthcare providers in accordance with the respective amounts owed to each. The system employs a method for applying payments from the patient / responsible party and / or other payors to providers based on specific contractual arrangements, and real-time reporting of Patient Accounts status / activity via secure, proprietary Internet access. By centralizing account management functions, each of the providers is spared the costs of establishing his / her / its own discrete, separate and redundant patient account, the periodic mailing of invoices, the processing of payments, the dunning of past due accounts, and the application to Medicare and Medicaid for reimbursement.

A system and method are proposed for measuring confusability or similarity between given entry pairs, including text string pairs and acoustic model pairs, in systems such as speech recognition and synthesis systems. A string edit distance (Levenshiten distance) can be applied to measure distance between any pair of text strings. It also can be used to calculate a confusion measurement between acoustic model pairs of different words and a model-driven method can be used to calculate a HMM model confusion matrix. This model-based approach can be efficiently calculated with low memory and low computational resources. Thus it can improve the speech recognition performance and models trained from text corpus.

Pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one alpha2-adrenergic agonist or baclofen and at least one alpha1-adrenergic agonist are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising tizanidine and modafinil are disclosed. Methods for reducing somnolence, sleepiness, lethargy, dizziness, drowsiness, somnolence, tiredness, lightheadedness, increased weakness, confusion, unsteadiness, clumsiness, or a combination of the symptoms thereof in a human patient; treating pain; and attenuating muscle spasticity, using pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one alpha2-adrenergic agonist or baclofen and at least one alpha1-adrenergic agonist are disclosed.

A method is disclosed for determining by a UTRAN a persistence value having a value between 0 and 1 for adjusting a number of access preambles from a plurality of UEs requiring assignment of a common packet channel (CPCH). The method includes the steps of counting a number of the access preambles detected in an access preamble period having a predetermined period; and determining the persistence value based on the number of counted access preambles. The persistence value is determined in a unit of transport format (TF), physical common packet channel (PCPCH), or CPCH set.

An interface circuit and method for use in interconnected hazardous condition detectors is provided. This circuit and method prioritizes the various hazardous condition alarms to ensure that only the highest priority or greatest threat alarm is sounded when such a condition is detected. In this way a lower priority alarm that may be sounding will be switched to a higher priority alarm so that all interconnected detectors that have the capability will sound the higher priority alarm. This will reduce occupant confusion during a hazardous condition. The circuit and method also provides the ability to silence all interconnected detectors except for those sensing the hazardous condition to allow the occupant to locate the triggering alarm, and there for the location of the sensed hazardous condition.

The present invention provides a method that increases screen space of a computing device by using semi-transparent functional areas that overlap non-functional content areas on the screen. This method allows for relatively large functional targets on the screen—thus mitigating the usability problems associated with tiny buttons and other images—while also allowing the underlying content on the screen to be clearly visible. A main design feature of this invention is that two functional areas are never allowed to overlap. An overlap condition would cause user confusion as to which layer is active. Instead, the interface is designed to foreground functionality in all instances.

An adaptive place-pitch ranking procedure for use with a cochlear implant or other neural stimulation system provides a systematic method for quantifying the magnitude and direction of errors along the place-pitch continuum. The method may be conducted and completed in a relatively short period of time. In use, the implant user or listener is asked to rank the percepts obtained after a sequential presentation of monopolar stimulation pulses are applied to a selected spatially-defined electrode pair. Should the patient's judgment of pitch order be correct for all applied interrogations, then no further testing involving the tested electrode pair (two electrode contacts) is undertaken. However, should there be errors in the place-pitch ranking, which errors evidence perceptual place-confusions, then a search is undertaken for the spread of the perceptual confusion by separating the target channel and competing channel by one electrode contact at a time. This search for the spread of confusion continues until no errors are made in all directions. Identified channels wherein pitch confusion exists may be deselected (not used) during normal operation of the cochlear implant.

An adaptive place-pitch ranking procedure for use with a cochlear implant or other neural stimulation system provides a systematic method for quantifying the magnitude and direction of errors along the place-pitch continuum. The method may be conducted and completed in a relatively short period of time. In use, the implant user or listener is asked to rank the percepts obtained after a sequential presentation of monopolar stimulation pulses are applied to a selected spatially-defined electrode pair. Should the patient's judgment of pitch order be correct for all applied interrogations, then no further testing involving the tested electrode pair (two electrode contacts) is undertaken. However, should there be errors in the place-pitch ranking, which errors evidence perceptual place-confusions, then a search is undertaken for the spread of the perceptual confusion by separating the target channel and competing channel by one electrode contact at a time. This search for the spread of confusion continues until no errors are made in all directions. Identified channels wherein pitch confusion exists may be deselected (not used) during normal operation of the cochlear implant.

An in-room safe monitoring, billing and tamper warning system that uses short range radio signals to pass the information to the internet, telephone system or any other Building Wide Communication Network (BCN). Attached to this BCN are the hotel's main computers used for security and billing. Thus the hotel staff can be informed of both usage and receive theft warning alarm messages through their regular computer network. The unique feature of this system is that data can be sent from any location in the room wirelessly throughout the room. A different code is associated with each and every safe, so that if the signal penetrates to the next room there will be no confusion. Once the signal reaches the wall, it is picked up by a data receiver and converted into the BCN format of choice for that building. Thus local short range radio communication can be used for building wide coverage in a huge hotel.

Mechanisms for improving the proposed high rate packet data (HRPD) system are provided. Approaches proposed are including PilotGroupID in the sector parameter message to convey the pilot group information, encoding to enable shortened NeighborList messages, improvements on RoutUpdateRequest message for request updates on multiple carriers, inclusive of the channel record of the reference pilot in the RouteUpdate message when the message sent in the connected state, using pilot drop timer of a Candidate Set pilot as a trigger for sending RouteUpdate, encoding the TrafficChannelAssignment message to shorten the message in certain situations, limiting the usage of auxiliary DRC cover in some situations to avoid confusion in determining the serving sector and processing OverheadMessages. Updated Indication and OverheadMessagesNeighborList Initialization in the idle state.

A personally identifiable container and device is provided to help avoid confusion over beverage container identity. The identifying devices include various types of indicia including blank surface, color- and number-coded, user-selectable and user-customizable iterations in the forms of production and aftermarket container caps, production and aftermarket labels, and container stickers that a manufacturer can build into its products or a user can purchase and apply it to his / her container. User-selectable iterations involve letters, numbers, colors or other indicia which the user can mark to identify a container. User-customizable iterations include surface-malleable containers, container caps, labels, (rings and dials)) and stickers into which a user can scratch or otherwise imprint his / her name and / or specific indicia. Another embodiment allows users to burst dye packets within a container cap or label to mix a custom and identifying color combination.

Automatic methods for focus and astigmatism corrections in a charged-particle beam instrument find an amount of excitation of the objective lens that provides the position of a circle of least confusion and can perform accurate automatic corrections of focus and astigmatism. The edge components of the original image along the X- and Y-directions are extracted separately, using respective filters. Noise reduction and normalization of numerical values are performed for each of the resulting two sets of data. Two-dimensional matrices of numerical values indicating the edge components in the X- and Y-directions, respectively, are found independently. The sums of the elements of the matrices are taken as focus evaluation values of the original image in the X- and Y-directions, respectively.

Components and characters are separated in a user interface for stroke based input of Chinese characters. A user enters a stroke sequence, and matching components and characters are separately displayed in separate selection lists. When the user selects a component, the character selection list is updated to only display characters that contain that component. This input methodology can be implemented on mobile phones, as well as other computing devices such as personal digital assistants. More characters are visible in the character selection list, which aids all users. Of further benefit to those who do use components, more components are displayed as components and characters do not need to share selection list space. Furthermore, separating components and characters reduces confusion between characters and components that look similar.

A method for controlling channel tuning of a digital TV is disclosed, in which a desired channel can easily be tuned in accordance with a user's input in a digital TV having a channel number of a major-minor type. The method for controlling channel tuning of a digital TV includes the steps of tuning a corresponding channel referring to a corresponding channel data depending on whether channel a data of a major number input by a user exists in a previously stored channel map if the user inputs a major number only, controlling an analog channel if the user inputs a major number or a minor number of 0, and controlling tuning of a corresponding channel depending on whether a channel data of the minor number input by the user exists in the previously stored channel map if the user inputs the major number and the minor number not 0. Since the user can recognize the minor channel data of the desired major channel, it is possible to prevent any confusion in selecting a plurality of minor channels from occurring.

The invention discloses an anti-peeping coded lock system based on visional confusion. The anti-peeping coded lock system based on visional confusion comprises a storing module, a setting module, a generating module, a displaying unit, an inputting unit, an obtaining module, a judging module and an unlocking module. The invention further discloses an anti-peeping unlocking method based on visional confusion. The unlocking method based on visional confusion comprises the following steps that an initial password is preset; a user enters an unlocking interface through activation operation; based on each password icon, an icon group comprising the password icon and multiple confusing icons is generated, and then random arrangement is conducted; the user finds all the icon groups comprising all the password icons on the unlocking interface through the initial password and conducts human-machine interactive operations in sequence so that the corresponding icon groups can relate; according to the execution sequence of the human-machine interactive operations, the icon groups are rearranged, and an icon group result sequence is generated; whether the icon group result sequence is matched with the initial password or not is judged through the judging module; unlocking action is executed. By the adoption of the anti-peeping coded lock system based on visional confusion, through visional confusion, the peeping resistance and the safety of an electronic device are effectively improved.

A tire condition monitoring system is composed of a detector installed in each tire, a transmitter positioned in the vicinity of each tire, and a monitor communicating with the transmitters and the detectors. An initiation signal for initiating operation of the detector is wirelessly sent from the transmitter to the detector, using a low frequency, and the pressure and temperature data detected by the detector are wirelessly sent to the monitor, using a radio frequency. A vehicle identification code differentiating the vehicle from other vehicles may be included in the initiation signal to avoid confusion with signals wirelessly sent from other vehicles. The detector is operated only when the tire condition data from that detector are required to minimize power consumption in the detector.

Self-calibrating AC magnetic tracking systems and combination “outside-in” and “inside-out” architectures offer unique motion tracking capabilities. More area is covered with minimal distortion using the tracking system itself to determine overall P&O based on the P&O of an initial, reference marker. The output as anticipated and needed by the user is output without confusion and without costly and time-consuming metrology while covering a large region when distance from the reference may be great. A method according to the invention includes the steps of positioning a plurality of stationary AC magnetic “markers” in a tracking volume and moving a mobile AC magnetic marker proximate to a first one of the stationary markers designated as a reference marker. The position and orientation (P&O) of the mobile marker is determined relative to the reference marker, then moved so as to be proximate to a second one of the stationary markers. The P&O of the second marker is determined relative to the reference marker, allowing the P&O of the mobile marker to be determined relative to the reference marker based upon the P&O of the second marker relative to the reference marker. The stationary markers may be AC magnetic sensors, with the mobile marker being an AC source, or vice-versa.

A method is disclosed for providing instructions to a user of a vehicle wherein the vehicle includes a plurality of sensors and a display screen. Instructions related to a vehicle operation are provided to the user by using the method comprising the steps of sensing by a sensor of a signal containing information regarding a condition indicative of confusion or human trigger of confusion, transmitting the signal containing the information regarding the confusion from the sensor to a processor, and then displaying instructions to the user on the display screen within the vehicle regarding how to remedy the confusion regarding the vehicle operation. The human trigger is sensed by a sensor or a plurality of sensors and includes detection of confusion when the vehicle user is pressing multiple buttons, incorrect buttons, pressing the same button multiple times, or a lack of pressing any buttons or triggers.

An automated animal return system for controlling animals, including dogs and other pets, and for automatically returning such animals to a predetermined containment area. The system uses positive reinforcement training so as to avoid the development of animal confusion and nervousness. The system includes a locator for determining the position of the animal relative to a reward zone, a command system for issuing a command to the animal when the animal is detected within a first boundary zone located beyond the reward zone, to encourage the animal to return to said reward zone, and a reward system for providing a reward to the animal when the locator system detects that the animal begins to return to the reward zone from the first boundary zone in response to the command. The reward may be an audible reward or a food reward or both.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a device for the reduction of needle insertion site pain in patients. Various embodiments comprise a shell defining a hollow interior cavity filled at least in part by a freezable substance. The shell defines a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, and a passage extending through the shell between the first surface and the second surface, wherein the passage is configured to at least partially surround a needle insertion site while a needle is inserted therethrough. At least one of the first and second surfaces comprise a plurality of protrusions distributed therein and configured to be depressed into the skin of the patient. When chilled and depressed against the patient's skin, the freezable device provides a sensory confusion sensation to the patient, thereby reducing perceived pain caused by the needle insertion.

An electromagnetic personnel interdiction control (EPIC) non-destructive stun type weapon system and method utilizes beamed RF energy (Lorentz Force) to disrupt the normal mechanical transduction process and / or the chemical engine by which sound, position and other sensory input are converted to messages by nerve cells and processed by the brain to produce complete disorientation, confusion, and temporary incapacitation sufficient to temporarily and remotely render a human powerless to resist arrest or subjugation. Removal of the RF electromagnetic energy will leave the nerve cells and surrounding tissues with no damage and the second order effects of severe motion sickness and the psychological effects of “helplessness” remains until the body chemistry returns to normal.

The invention discloses a subhealth regulating traditional Chinese medicine composition and the preparation method thereof. The subhealth regulating traditional Chinese medicine composition is made of medical raw materials with the following proportioning by weight: 25 g to 275 g of raw milkvetch root , 5 g to 25 g of american ginseng or 25 g to 175g of beach silvertop root or 25 g to 175 g of pilose asiabell root, 25 g to 175 g of raw Chinese yam or atractylodes macrocephala, 0 to 100 g of epimeddium or Indianmulberry, 25 g to 175 g of hyacinth bean, 5 g to 25 g of notoginseng or red sage root , and 5 g to 45 g of fruit orange magnoliavine. The invention also comprises the preparation method of the subhealth regulating traditional Chinese medicine composition. The product of the invention can improve the subhealth symptoms of tiredness and fatigue, wheezy phlegm in the throat, much thick sputum, prickle in both rib-sides, hiccup and belching, abdominal distension and sugar excrement, short breath and distinclination to talk, shoulder and neck rigidity, insomnia and anxiety, asthenia heat and apontaneous perspiration, darkish or dimmish and yellowish complexion, obesity (at the initial stage), headache, astriction, sexual function decline, attention deficit, memory loss, poor appetite, dryness of the skin, flaccidness and wrinkle, acne, chloasma, leukorrh, abnormal menstrual period, grey beard and hair, show temper and irascibility, hunger of stomach, stomach yin, mental confusion, and chest distress which are caused by blood stasis and vital energy retardation, slight deficiency of spleen and stomach, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, dysfunctional state of the viscera, organism imbalance of yin and yang. The total effective rate of the invention reaches above 97 percent, and the taking is secure.