132 results about "Care workers" patented technology

Systems and methods are provided for monitoring one or more patients to ensure compliance with required hygienic procedures and / or to ensure only authorized persons are allowed to attend to such patients. One system includes detectors that may be sequentially activated as a person approaches a patient. Activation of the detectors, in sequence, causes a signal to be transmitted by a controller. If the person is wearing a monitor and has complied with the required hygienic procedure, the monitor transmits a responsive signal to the controller that is encoded to indicate such compliance. If the person is either not wearing a monitor or the monitor does not transmit an appropriate responsive signal, the controller can provide a warning signal and cause a violation of protocol to be recorded. The system may include a portable sanitizer that is capable of functioning as a monitor. The systems and methods do not, however, require monitors worn by health care workers or other persons. Sensors may be associated with a hospital bed and / or a patient.

A hypodermic injection system with a retractable needle wherein the needle retracts within an interior cavity of a syringe plunger, such that the needle is confined within the plunger. A spring biases the needle rearwardly into the plunger, and a needle retainer releasably retains the needle against the bias of the spring. The plunger has a frangible end, which dissociates when the plunger engages the needle retainer, allowing the coiled spring to eject the needle into the interior cavity of the plunger. A body fluid sampling embodiment employs the same functional elements except the plunger is shorter and contains a linking that communicates with a vacuum container. The container allows fluid sampling and provides the structure to release the spring retracting the needle. The retractable needle embodiment is also employed with an insertion needle that guides a catheter tube below the skin of a patient and into the vein, and allows retraction of the insertion needle thereby avoiding accidental pricking of the health care worker by the insertion needle.

Medical devices and consumables have been altered by changes on their surfaces or components consisting of simple or complex color patterns, visual designs, drawings, art work, embedded designs, copyrighted images or figures, changes in the shape of the medical device in an artistic, abstract, or visual manner, and other visual and physical modifications intended to improve the physical and psychological environment of the patient and the health care worker, and to be used as well to visually identify a particular medical device, component, solution, or medication.

A holder with a safety shield for a drug delivery device; the shield obstructing access to a needle of the drug delivery device following use thereof. The safety shield may be actively deployed, in which case the health care worker must perform an action beyond complete depression of the pusher into the body of the drug delivery device to deploy the shield. Alternatively, the safety shield may be deployed passively or automatically, in which case deployment of the shield occurs upon complete depression of the pusher into the body, with no additional action required of the health care worker. The safety shield is spring-loaded and released to its extended position by a mechanical coupling of a series of position members, including levers, formed on the holder and the drug delivery device.

An incontinence bed pad comprised of one or more inflatable pads and one or more absorbent pads for use under a patient on a bed. The inflatable incontinence bed pad serves to spread pressure over an increased area for the patient to prevent or treat bed wounds. The inflatable pad may channel or drain fluids such as urine into the absorbent pad below, keeping the surface and patient dry. Alternately, the absorbent pad may be placed above the inflatable pad to reduce cleaning work. The one or more air bladders are inflatable through one or more ports. The ports pass air from one or more manual or powered air pumps to the one or more air bladders. Making an incontinence pad of an inflatable nature offers advantages not available in the prior art. The inflation and deflation of distinct sealed chambers or zones within the inflatable pad may tilt a patient's hips to the right and to the left periodically. The pad may inflate in a static position. The pad may inflate and deflate zoned areas to alternate pressure areas of the patient. Inflating and deflating areas of the pad may push waste away from the person. The inflated pad may leak air to wick moisture and heat from a patient. Handles may be integrated to the inflatable incontinence bed pad for transferring the patient on and off the bed and to other places. Straps compatible with a patient lift system may be integrated. This could reduce work and injury to care providers, as well as reducing disruption to the patient. Side rails may be integrated for safety.

A device is provided for transporting a tissue specimen without the risk of exposing health-care workers to potentially hazardous tissue fluids. The device includes a container, a flexible portion, a first support member received in the container, a second support member extending from the fist support member, a first locating indicia on a first side of the first supporting member, and a second substantially radiopaque locating indicia on a second side of the first support member, and an indicating member movably mounted on the first side of the first support member. The first support member has a first locating indicia on a first surface and a second locating indicia on a second surface, which generates a radiographic image when exposed to x-rays. The first and second indicia are substantially in registration such that when a tissue specimen is positioned on the first locating indicia and is then exposed to x-rays, a radiographic image of the specimen superimposed on the image of the second locating indicia is produced. Since both locating indicia are in registration, any tissue abnormality within the specimen can be precisely located with respect to both indicia. The device further includes a second support member, limiting contact of the container walls with the tissue specimen, and biasing the flexible portion away from the first support surface containing the tissue specimen. The device further includes an at least partially radiopaque indicating member for indicating the position of the tissue specimen on the radiographic image. A method for using the device to generate radiographic images of a tissue specimen is also disclosed.

A method and system for determining the nursing workload of care workers is provided for receiving health care requirement data of at least one patient, selecting at least one nursing work task with high nursing care related to the health care requirement data, and assigning a nursing care score to the at least one selected nursing work task, so as to level out the nursing workload among care workers and to optimise the assignment of patients to each care worker.

A point-of-care, screening kit for use by a heath care worker to create custom test strips for screening the bodily fluids of an individual for various, medical conditions includes: (a) a plurality of reagents (12), (b) a substrate (18) configured to: i) receive one of the reagents and react with it so as to cause it to acquire a first characteristic color, and, ii) upon the addition of the individual's bodily fluid to the substrate, acquire, as a result of the formulation of each of the reagents, a second, dichotomous characteristic color when the individual has a specific one of the various, medical conditions. This kit also includes: (c) a plurality of containers (10) having indicia (26) that are reflective of the reagent within the container and which of the various medical conditions is being screened for with the use of the container and the characteristic first and second colors which are indicative of the individual having a screened for medical condition, and (d) one of the reagents being a protein reagent that includes appropriate quantities of: water, isopropyl alcohol, citric acid monohydrate, sodium citrate iribasic monohydrate, tetrabromophenol blue and tartrazine.

Sample collection for the Pap smear sample is critical for accurate diagnosis. Improper sample collection, poor sampling, and / or cell preservation can render a Pap smear unsatisfactory for evaluation, requiring a repeat smear collection. If the Pap smear does not contain appropriate representative cells from the transformation zone and endocervical canal, the ability of the test to detect disease is very low. Likewise, if the preservation of the sample is compromised, the screener's ability to recognize abnormal cells is greatly diminished. It is generally understood that cervical samples should be harvested by a two-stage technique, which includes sampling of the endocervical canal with a cytobrush and obtaining a sample from the transformation zone with a spatula. The use of either the cytobrush or the spatula alone may be adequate but not as effective as the two-stage technique. Both the Cervex Brush and REG;(Unimar, Inc.) and the Accellon Combi & REG;(Medscand AB) are two collection devices which combine the action of the cytobrush and spatula, thus permitting broader sampling with a one stage technique. The standard method of transferring cervical cells from the collection device or complete transfer of the collection device into the liquid collection vial is often challenging. These challenges include but are not limited to: 1-spilling the sample, 2-dispersing the medium collection such that air born body secretions could contact unprotected health care workers, 3-missing the collection container and contaminating the sample. It is the goal of the current device embodiment to provide a simple and consistent method of transferring the entire collection specimen into the collection container to maximize cell collection while minimizing challenges of head disengagement. Such devices are not limited to the cervical cell cytology collection markets but extend to all cell collection methods were the entire sample is suspended in a liquid or similar medium. Such samples include oral cavity collections (throat swabs, vaginal cavity collections (STDs, pregnancy test), urethral cavity collections (male STDs) fornex collections (Alaph fetal protein), and rectal collections as well as open procedures requiring cell sampling.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical rehabilitation instruments, and particularly relates to a neurological rehabilitation chair for children. The neurological rehabilitation chairfor children comprises a support casing, a seat board is arranged on the support casing, lifting support frames are symmetrically and fixedly connected to two sides of the seat board, and the liftingsupport frames and the support casing can be connected in a vertical sliding manner; a backup plate is rotationally connected on the seat board; a massage device for massaging the back of a patient isarranged on the backup plate and comprises a massage structure and a massage drive structure controlling lifting of the massage structure; the massage structure comprises a lifting massage support seat and massage assemblies uniformly distributed and fixedly connected on the lifting massage support seat, and a second press plate matched with the massage assemblies is connected on the lifting massage support seat in a sliding manner; a lifting device for controlling lifting of the seat board is disposed in the support casing; and an exercise device is connected on the support casing. During use of the neurological rehabilitation chair, child patients can take exercise by the exercise device and perform massage by the massage device, so that the workload of nurses is reduced, and the betterrehabilitation effect can be realized.

A monitoring system in a medical facility provides an identification device to a patient and a data acquisition device to a health-care worker. The identification device wirelessly emits a first signal that identifies the patient and the data acquisition device emits a second signal. A determination is made in response to the first signal and the second signal, whether the health-care worker is absent from being near the patient. For example, absence of the health-care worker is determined when a data reader receives only the first signal. This system detects when a patient requiring continuous observation is not in the presence of a health-care worker. In that case, an alarm message is sent to supervisory personnel.

A monitoring system in a medical facility provides an identification device to a patient and a data acquisition device to a health-care worker. The identification device wirelessly emits a first signal that identifies the patient and the data acquisition device emits a second signal. A determination is made in response to the first signal and the second signal, whether the health-care worker is absent from being near the patient. For example, absence of the health-care worker is determined when a data reader receives only the first signal. This system detects when a patient requiring continuous observation is not in the presence of a health-care worker. In that case, an alarm message is sent to supervisory personnel.

An anti-collision method and apparatus for use with a C-arm x-ray imaging machine (10) to prevent damage to the imaging apparatus and injury to patients and health care workers includes a load cell (110), a differential buffer and integrator (120), an analog to digital converter (130), and a microcontroller (140) controlling the motor drive (150). The present application also provides a method for controlling the apparatus via a microcontroller (140) and includes the steps of determining whether an up / down switch is actuated (161), reading and comparing a value with a tabulated value (162), halting the C-arm (164) if the difference between the tabulated value and the recorded value exceeds a threshold value (163) and reversing the apparatus (165).

The invention presented is a needle system to access a subcutaneous port primarily for the administration of chemotherapy, designed to protect the health care worker from inadvertent needle injury by isolation of the needle tip within base and tower components. A rotating collar is designed to keep the needle immobile until access of the port is desired when it can be rotated to align a cut out with a corresponding cut out of the tower that houses the needle for advancement of the needle downward into the port. On retraction, the collar can be rotated, locking the needle back into a retracted position within the tower.

A person who is elderly, requires care, or an inpatient who is under the care by his or her family members, a nursing care worker, or a nurse in a hospital or medical institution must be monitored constantly, however the caregiver cannot be in attendance on the patient all the time. A biosignal intensity measuring method is provided to solve the above problem. According to the measuring method, output signals from a noninvasive sensor, which detects biosignals from a lying subject, are amplified and noises other than the biosignals are attenuated via a signal amplifying / shaping unit, and the amplified signals are controlled by an automatic gain control (AGC) unit to have sizes within a prescribed range, then parameters acquired by signal gains in a control circuit upon carrying out automatic gain control are output as the output signal intensity of the biosignals to calculate biosignal intensity. A bedding state monitoring method is also provided. According to the monitoring method, the calculated signal intensity is used to monitor the bedding state of the subject, such as a state of being in or out of bed, of weakening or stoppage of biosignals, of body motion, or the like.

An apparatus and method for repositioning the abdominal fat tissue of a patient by a single operator to enable medical personnel to gain access to certain areas of a patient's body, for example, to provide medical care, without risk of injury to the operator and / or health care worker, and with minimal discomfort to the patient.

A mechanical lift features the low profile of a traditional wood and cloth cot stretcher allowing patients to be easily rolled or moved upon a flat surface. An integrated mechanical lift system then lifts a patient to a raised or seated position without need for manual lifting. The lift allows patients to be moved and transported without back strain to health care workers or first responders. The lift may be raised by the mechanical movement or expansion of a piston. A seat plate 420 may rest upon a non-tilting seat strut 310 and become a seat as the lift rises. During the lifting process, a back plate 400, attached to a back strut 205 gently rises to place the patient in a seated position as a leg plate 440 lowers.

A remote monitoring system, a kit and an associated method are presented for use in providing a convenient way to alert health care workers that a diaper is in need of being changed. The remote monitoring system includes a remotely placed monitor station in communications with a diaper device. The diaper device has many of the standard diaper components such as having an absorbent pad and absorbent composition interposed between the inner and outer panels. The diaper device also has electronic components that are configured to detect an increase in conductivity across opposing detector electrodes which can then be used to indicate, via an EMF signal, that the diaper device is wet. The electronic components of the remotely placed monitor station are then configured to receive the EMF signal and to configured to alert the health care workers that the diaper device is in need of being changed. The kit includes the electronic components configured to convert a regular diaper into a smart diaper in communications with the monitor station. The method includes the steps of acquiring, activating, allowing, inserting, obtaining, receiving, removing, soiling, transmitting, and wearing.

A brake assist system for patient handling equipment such as a patient bed includes a drive wheel. The wheel includes a brake assist system operated by control of a controlled unit which is operable to sense tilt of the handling equipment and to apply partial breaking to the wheel when it is detected that the equipment is on a slope. The control unit controls a maximum speed of the equipment down the slope, in order to protect the patient and to assist a care worker. The control unit disengages the brake assist mechanism when it is detected that the equipment is on a horizontal surface.

Venous transfusion blood return and over low temperature of liquid medicine for venous transfusion are medical accidents which are caused by loose custody and occur easily in medical treatment, and can cause severe secondary harm to patients. Possibility of occurrence of venous transfusion blood return accidents is higher especially on the conditions that a hospital is in patient transfusion rush hours and the number of caring workers is not enough. The venous transfusion blood return accident is a big difficult problem for the hospital. In order to solve the difficult problems in venous transfusion and overcome the technical defects of an existing product, the invention provides a novel venous transfusion switching and alarming device. A simple and ingenious mechanical structure design is adopted for the device. Reduction of the self weight of an infusion bottle is utilized to control connection and disconnection of two contacts, and then connection and operation of an indication light, a micro-alarm and a stepping motor are controlled, so that stoppage of venous transfusion is controlled, and medical workers and patients are alarmed. The device is simple and ingenious in design and high in reliability, and brings great convenience to monitoring of venous transfusion of the patients.

The invention provides a hospital care system. The hospital care system comprises a plurality of acquisition devices, a transmission device and a terminal receiving device. The system has the following beneficial effects: care workers can know about conditions of patients in real time or at a preset moment comprehensively and take measures to save the patients timely in case of abnormities; due to the alarm function of the system, the timeliness and the comprehensiveness of patient condition information provided by the system are enhanced; physiological index data capable of indicating the patient condition is provided timely and comprehensively on the premise that the patients are not disturbed during rest at night, and the emotional resistance of the patients is eliminated; the labor intensity of the care workers is reduced, and the problem that fatigue is easily caused due to large average care business volume caused by a small number of care workers is solved; the medical treatment environment for the patients is improved, and the survival rate of the patients is increased in case of unexpected emergencies.

The invention provides a remaining needle fixation device for nursing, which is applied to the field of remaining needles. The device mainly comprises a shell, a fixation module, a positioning module,a remaining needle module, a hot compress module and a sterilization module, wherein the shell is configured to isolate a remaining needle from an external environment, so that the remaining needle is not polluted easily; positioning equipment is disposed, so that a nursing worker can realize positioning and needle head insertion conveniently, the nursing worker can visually observe a needle puncture point by an observation hole and a spotlight irradiation point, and thus a needle head can be accurately inserted into the puncture point; through coordination of a telescopic rod and a motor, the positioning module can control an insertion degree and an insertion angle of the needle head; a structure with a clamping-buckling fixation binding belt and an elastic belt is adopted for the fixation module, so stability of two cover bodies is ensured; and an installation frame of the remaining needle is installed in a clamping-buckling manner, so that the remaining needle can be installed andreplaced very easily and quickly.

A dual handled, single throttle trigger trimmer comprising rotating handles and a rotating trimmer head. The rotating handles allow the use of the trimmer in a trimming mode and an edging mode. The device may be readily converted between the two modes and the lawn care worker must not remove either hand from the device while doing so. The conversion is accomplished by rotating the trimmer upper handle about an axis perpendicular to the trimmer driveshaft while simultaneously rotating the trimmer middle handle about an axis parallel to the trimmer driveshaft. The middle handle has a slide fit around the trimmer driveshaft.

A monitoring system in a medical facility provides identification devices to patients and a data acquisition device to health care workers. The data acquisition device receives a signal from the identification device which identifies the associated patient and measures an amount of time that the patient is being treated by the health care worker associated with the given data acquisition device. A data interrogator reads data from the data acquisition devices which identify associated health care worker the patients that were treated and the amount of time each treatment. The data read from the data acquisition devices can be used to prepare reports specifying the amount of treatment each patient received and the amount of treatment each health care worker provided.

The invention relates to a removable, protective and heat sensitive and color changing silicone sleeve for baby feeding glass bottles or containers. The silicone sleeves changes its color to a cautionary color at a stated hot temperature. Thereby imparting an idea to the caregiver that the baby food is too hot to serve or feed.

A mechanical lift features the low profile of a traditional wood and cloth cot stretcher allowing patients to be easily rolled or moved upon a flat surface. An integrated mechanical lift system then lifts a patient to a raised or seated position without need for manual lifting. The lift allows patients to be moved and transported without back strain to health care workers or first responders. The lift may be raised by the mechanical movement or expansion of a piston. A seat plate 420 may rest upon a non-tilting seat strut 310 and become a seat as the lift rises. During the lifting process, a back plate 400, attached to a back strut 205 gently rises to place the patient in a seated position as a leg plate 440 lowers.

A system and method for managing and tracking home health care workers is provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) implanted on a network of computing devices is provided for a management and performance platform. The platform provides utility for scheduling and monitoring tasks to be performed by a caregiver during a shift or visit to a remote location such as a client's home. The tasks performed by a caregiver are based on a plan that a clinical nurse or other supervising medical personnel establishes ahead of time prior to the caregiver visit. As caregivers log in on their remote device, a timestamp is captured and recorded that reflects the “Clock in” time for a time sheet record. As tasks are completed (or attempted), additional timestamps are captured and recorded. Documentation is generated from the captured information and used for timesheets, payroll, insurance billing, and medical record keeping.

The invention relates to the technical field of medical attention and discloses a nurse station alarm management system. The nurse station alarm management system comprises an infusion monitoring device, a patient monitoring device and a monitoring terminal and is characterized in that the infusion monitoring device comprises a liquid placing device and a liquid level detecting device, the liquid placing device comprises a liquid container, a self-mixing container, a conveying soft tube and a switch valve, and the liquid container comprises a plurality of containing bottles; the patient monitoring device comprises a piezoelectric film sensor and calling bracelets, and the calling bracelets include a patient bracelet and a nurse bracelet. The nurse station alarm management system has the advantages that liquid level in an infusion bottle can be monitored through the infusion monitoring device, replacing and monitoring by care workers is reduced, manpower consumption is lowered greatly, infusion liquid level can be detected in real time through the liquid level detecting device, and a good monitoring effect is achieved; the vital sign data of a patient is monitored in real time through the patient monitoring device, and alarm conditions can be discovered timely under the situation that a small number of nurses are available.

A hand held adaptive device that allows a disabled person an effective and easy way to don their dorsal wrap-around DAFO (Dynamic Ankle Foot Orthosis)(38). The Donning Facilitator (40) slides in-between the dorsal wrap-around supports (39), thus separating and maintaining an enlarged opening of the anterior-dorsal aspect of the dorsal wrap-around DAFO (38). The impaired foot slides easily into the enlarged opening of the said dorsal wrap-around DAFO (38). In addition, caregivers will find the Donning Facilitator (40) frees up both hands from having to hold open the bilateral dorsal wrap-around supports (39), allowing ample control by the caregiver when donning the dorsal wrap-around DAFO (38) to the patient's foot / ankle.