328 results about "Elderly patient" patented technology

The disclosed invention is a patient monitoring system that employs a pressure sensitive pad. The pad is placed beneath a patient who is lying in bed or sitting in a chair. When weight is removed from the pad, an alarm is given. The pad comprises an upper layer of circuitry and a lower layer of circuitry. When the respective layers of circuitry are in contact, the alarm remains off, but when the layers of circuitry become separated, the alarm is given. This invention is generally for use in hospitals and nursing homes to alert caregivers when a patient falls out of a bed or a wheelchair; or if a patient otherwise leaves a bed or chair against the wishes of the caregiver. This situation is of special concern with elderly patients, post operational patients, and / or at night when nursing staffs are reduced.

The present invention provides a method for providing nutrition to elderly patients. Pursuant to the present invention, the enteral composition includes a protein source, a lipid source, and a carbohydrate source. Preferably, the protein source includes at least 18% of the total calories. In an embodiment, the carbohydrate source includes a source of dietary fiber including a balance of soluble to insoluble fiber ratio of approximately 1:3. Still further, the composition of the present invention also includes increased levels of certain vitamins and minerals.

Methods of treating sleep disorders, particularly certain aspects of insomnia, in elderly patients (65 years and older) by administering initial daily dosages of doxepin of 1-3 mg. These ultra-low initial dosages are more effective in elderly versus non-elderly patients in decreasing wake time during sleep, latency to persistent sleep and wake time after sleep, and are particularly efficacious in treating those conditions in the last hour of an 8-hour sleep cycle. Also, the dosages described herein are safe for elderly individuals.

A telemedic monitoring system dispenses medication on a prescribed schedule and monitors the dispensing device to determine when a patient, such as an elderly patient, has actually taken the medication from the dispensing device, and reports the same to a central system that can relay messages to relatives of the patient so that drug dispensing can be remotely monitored, and when the system detects an anomaly, an alert will be issued to the patient's relatives to resolve complications of elder care services.

The present invention relates to a nutritional composition which is liquid and shelf-stable or powdered and reconstitutable. The composition has a fiber content of more than 2.5 g / fibber per 100 ml of the composition. Furthermore, it has an energy content of 1.3-1.8 kcal / ml. The composition is useful to improve and maintain gut comfort, restoring a well-balanced gut flora, especially in an elderly patient prone to malnutrition. The invention further relates to a process for preparing the nutritional composition.

The invention relates to an oral instant membrane of risperidone and a preparation method thereof, thereby being used for improving the using performance of the risperidone. The technical scheme is as follows: the instant membrane comprises 2-60 parts by weight of risperidone, 25-98 parts by weight of water-soluble pharmaceutical polymer excipients, additives and 0.1-25 parts by weight of water. The oral instant membrane solves the problems that the existing risperidone is clinically difficult to swallow, is not applicable to children and elderly patients for administration and can not be conveniently taken under the situation of having no water. The oral instant membrane can be dissolved on the tongue, the hidden trouble of choking can not be happened no matter how young a baby is, the active ingredients can be absorbed sublingually and absorbed by buccal mucosa, and the onset of action is more rapid in comparison with orally disintegrating tablets. In addition, the oral instant membrane has good compliance, thereby being particularly suitable for elderly people, children and patients with difficult swallowing.

An improved medication organizing system for allowing patients to rapidly and easily prepare hermetically sealed dosage packages to set up their medication regime for a week, month, or longer period of time. The device includes seven hoppers to allow the patient to prepare a set of hermetically sealed medication packages for a given time for each day of the week. After being filled, each package in the set of seven packages is hermetically sealed simultaneously by simply loading the set into a sealing unit and pulling a lever. Sealing of the packages does not require manual manipulation of the individual packages by the user, such as would be required for medication organizers utilizing individual packages with zip-lock seals. The medication organizing system allows patients who lack manual dexterity, such as elderly patients, to easily prepare medication dosages for an extended period of time. The medication organizing system enables the preparation of small, easily transportable packages of medication that can be quickly and easily filled, sealed, handled, and reopened by any user, including the elderly.

Orally dissolving formulations, e.g., tablets (ODTs) and films (ODFs) comprising memantine and methods of treating conditions, including childhood behavioral disorders and Alzheimer's disease, by administering orally dissolving formulations are provided. The orally dissolving formulations of the present invention may be used to treat various conditions, but is particularly suited to treat childhood behavioral disorders, such as autistic spectrum disorders or combined type Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and also to treat elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

The invention provides a vinpocetin containing high-capacity sodium chloride injection and a preparation method thereof, aiming at solving the problems that vinpocetin is mainly applied to middle aged and elderly patients, high-capacity glucose injection contains massive glucose and is not beneficial to treating patients suffering from diabetes at the same time. The invention has the key point that the injection is mainly composed of vinpocetin, osmotic pressure regulator, cosolvent and pH value regulator. The vinpocetin high-capacity sodium chloride injection of the invention has high bioavailability and stable quality, is convenient to use and is applicable to treatment of patients suffering from neurologic disease caused by cerebral circulation restriction, especially the patients suffering from diabetes at the same time.

What is disclosed is a system and method for generating a flow-volume loop for respiratory function assessment of a subject of interest in a non-contact, remote sensing environment. In one embodiment, a time-varying sequence of depth maps of a target region of a subject of interest being monitored for respiratory function is received. The depth maps are of that target region over a period of inspiration and expiration. The depth maps are processed to obtain a volume signal comprising a temporal sequence of instantaneous volumes. The time-varying volume signal is processed to obtain a flow-volume loop. Changes in a contour of the flow-volume loop are used to assess the subject's respiratory function. The teachings hereof find their uses in a wide array of medical applications where it is desired to monitor respiratory function of patients such as elderly patients, chronically ill patients with respiratory diseases and premature babies.

The invention discloses a method for screening, evaluating and intervening senile syndromes of hospitalized senile patients, which comprises the following steps of: comprehensively screening the senile syndromes of the senile patients; carrying out special assessments including pressure sore risk degree, disability degree, emotional disorder degree, sleep quality, cognitive disorder degree, malnutrition degree, dysphagia degree, defecation and urination, social support, pain, delirium, tumble, sarcopenia, weakness, body diseases and the like; and making individualized intervention suggestions according to the evaluation conclusion. According to the invention, elderly health management is associated with different states of diseases, an elderly syndrome intelligent management method is provided for elderly patients in a targeted manner, and disease hierarchical management and continuous service are realized. The method comprises a complete process of health information collection, disease and function evaluation, intervention opinions and follow-up visits, so that the method can be widely popularized as a special diagnosis and treatment technical method of the elderly medical inpatient department, and can enable the elderly to obtain better standard, effective and homogenized services.

The invention discloses a sugar-free granule for treating chronic fatigue syndrome and a preparation method and a detecting method thereof, wherein the sugar-free granule is prepared by the following ingredients in parts by weight: 75 parts of ginseng, 250 parts of dwarf lilyturf root, 150 parts of fructus schizandrae, 150 parts of angelica, 250 parts of astragalus root, 200 parts of arillus longan, 50 parts of cinnamon, 150 parts of lucid ganoderma, 150 parts of leatherleaf milletia, 125 parts of tuckahoe, 250 parts of hawthorn, 150 parts of radix salviae miltiorrhizae, 150 parts of jujube kernels, 100 parts of donkey-hide gelatin, 5 parts of steviosin and 767 parts of dextrin. The sugar-free preparation of the invention has the advantages of fast dissolution speed, high bioavailability and good stability so as to solve the drug use limit problem of diabetics and old patients, thereby expanding the adaptable crowds; besides, the detecting method of the invention has the advantages of high precision, good repeatability and accurate measurement result, thereby effectively guaranteeing the clinical treatment effect of the preparation.

The invention provides an omeprazole enteric dry suspension and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of medicine.The enteric dry suspension is prepared from, by weight, 40%-49% of omeprazole enteric microspheres, 0%-1% of wetting agent, 45%-58% of flavoring agent and 1%-5% of suspending aid.According to the omeprazole enteric dry suspension and the preparation method thereof, a hot-melting spraying method is adopted to prepare omeprazole and a sustained-release skeleton material into sustained-release microspheres A, the sustained-release microspheres A are each sequentially wrapped with an isolation coating layer and an enteric coating layer, the wrapped microspheres A are mixed with the flavoring agent, the wetting agent and the suspending aid, and then the omeprazole enteric dry suspension is obtained; the prepared omeprazole enteric dry suspension is distributed uniformly in the intestinal tract and is not prone to cause initial burst release; compared with tablets and capsules, the omeprazole enteric dry suspension is good in stability, fractional doses are convenient, an oral suspension is formed by adding water to the dry suspension to enable the dry suspension to be dissolved, absorption is good, the efficacy is quick to achieve, the bioavailability is good, the mouthfeel is good, the dry suspension is particularly suitable for patients with dysphagia, specially for child patients and elderly patients to take, compliance of the patients is improved, and the preparation method is simple and suitable for industrial production and application.

The invention discloses an orally disintegrating tablet containing policosanol. The tablet is composed of the following raw materials by weight: 1.5- 4.5 parts of policosanol, 15.0-30.0 parts of a lipid material, 30.0-60.0 parts of a freeze-drying protective agent and 0.1-0.5 part of a flavoring agent. Meanwhile, the invention also discloses a preparation method of the orally disintegrating tablet. The orally disintegrating tablet prepared according to the invention can be conveniently applied to elderly patients with dysphagia and poor compliance, at the same time, the drug is released quickly, so that the bioavailability of the drug is improved. The drug exists in the preparation in a liposome form, so that the drug solubility can be increased, the drug storage life is prolonged, and theeffect of covering bad taste of the drug is also achieved.

The invention discloses a nursing device for vascular surgery. The nursing device comprises a bed frame, and a baffle is fixedly arranged at the left end of the upper surface of the bed frame; a bed board is fixedly installed on the upper surface of the bed frame, and telescopic supporting legs are arranged on the lower surface of the bed frame; the left sides of the front and rear side faces of the bed frame are both provided with an anti-falling mechanism, the right sides of the front and rear side faces of the bed frame are both provided with a leg placing part, and sliding grooves are formed in the right sides of the front and rear side faces of the bed frame respectively. The height of the bed frame can be adjusted so that the device can better adapt to different patients for use, andthe legs of each patient can be lifted. Besides, medical staff conveniently adjust the horizontal positions and heights of the leg placing parts according to lower limb conditions of the patients, lower limb varicosities and lower limb phlebothrombosis can be effectively prevented, the accident that the patients fall off a bed when turning over can be avoided, and the nursing device especially has a good protection function on elderly patients also suffering from other diseases such as diabetes.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medicine, and particularly relates to an imidafenacin oral fast dissolving film and a preparation method and application thereof. The film agent comprises, by weight, 0.1%-3% of imidafenacin, 40%-85% of film-forming materials, 15%-50% of filling agents, 1%-10% of plasticizers, 0.1%-4% of sweetening agents and 0-5% of disintegrating agents. When the imidafenacin oral fast dissolving film is placed on the tongue, the film can be dissolved rapidly in saliva, medicine can be released, medicine taking through water is not needed, the danger of blocking throats does not exist, the imidafenacin oral fast dissolving film is suitable for being taken by elderly patients, the adaptability of the patients is improved, and carrying is convenient.

The invention relates to faropenem sodium-containing granules, belonging to the technical field of pharmaceutic preparation. The faropenem sodium-containing granules comprise 10-20% of faropenem sodium, 78-89.5% of lactose and 0.5-2.0% of steviosin. The faropenem sodium-containing granules adopt dry granulation, and the technology is simple, feasible and beneficial to operation, so that the faropenem sodium-containing granules are suitable for industrial mass production; the product is stable in properties and good in mouth feel, thus being very suitable for children and elderly patients.

The invention discloses an intelligent elderly hypertension self-care method based on Internet. The method comprises the following steps of collecting the vital sign data of a patient and uploading toa background management system; through using traditional Chinese medicine time and a pulse condition, and a recipe, providing a full-day diet and daily life guidance service, through the method of combining quantification and quantization, form an electronic diary for each patient, and transmitting to a corresponding community hospital to form a systematic file management; publishing the healthcalendar of an elderly inpatient with hypertension through a background management system, refining and quantifying the intakes of staple food, vegetable, fruit, oil and fat, and listing the health calendar of a hypertensive patient with other disease types separately; and prompting daily medication time and the generated diet and exercise plan of the day for the patient. The self-care state of the elderly hypertensive patient is tracked, investigated and assessed through the Internet, and regular intervention is performed, which is good for improving the life quality of and the health state of the elderly patient.

The invention discloses a medicine inhalation device for elderly patients. The device includes a box, a sliding column, a spring, a pressure plate, an atomizing nozzle, a connecting sleeve, a drain hole, a clearance hole, a rotating shaft, a medicament atomize inhaler for elderly patient has ingenious structure, powerful function and simple operation. That medicament and water can be mixed into one body by use the device, and then the mixture mixed into one body is sprayed into the mouth of the patient through atomizing form, so that the medicament can be taken by the elderly patient, and themedicament has protective effect on the elderly patient.

The invention discloses application of miR-489-3p to preparation of medicines for diagnosing and treating human osteoporosis. According to the technical scheme, the detection of thighbone tissue samples of elderly patients with osteoporosis shows that miR-489-3p is low in expression in human osteoporosis tissue samples and can be used as a marker gene for diagnosing osteoporosis; an analogue and an antagonist of miR-489-3p are designed and prepared, then the analogue and the antagonist of the miR-489-3p are transfected into mice pre-osteoblasts MC3T3-E1 for carrying out a mineralization-alizarin red s dyeing experiment and an ALP dyeing experiment; technical detection of qPCR and Western blot shows that miR-489-3p can accelerate osteocyte differentiation and also can carry out targeted regulation on non-receptor protein-tyrosine-phosphatase6 (PTPN6) molecules. The application of miR-489-3p to preparation of medicines for diagnosing and treating human osteoporosis shows that miR-489-3p can regulate PTPN6 molecules to be used as target sites of action of medicines for treating skeleton system diseases such as osteoporosis.

The invention discloses a hand rehabilitation exercise device for elderly patients with cerebrovascular diseases. The hand rehabilitation exercise device comprises a hollow cubic base body, a trainingcomponent arranged on the surface of the base body, a dustproof sterilization cover and a control component. The training component comprises a finger flexion and extension training component, a finger massage training component and a grip training component, which are respectively arranged on the front wall, the top wall and the left wall of the base body. The dustproof sterilization cover comprises three square cover surfaces, and can cover the three corresponding training components on the base body. The control component arranged in a hollow cavity of the base body is electrically connected with each training component and the dustproof sterilization cover. The hand rehabilitation exercise device for the elderly patients with the cerebrovascular diseases has the advantages that single-finger training, overall hand pressure training and grip training are integrated, so that the device is multifunctional to meet training needs of the patients.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a replaceable urine-excrement monitoring system and aims to solve the technical problems that babies wearing paper diapers are prone to skin allergy caused by long-term contact of skin with the paper diapers contaminated by urine and excrement and caregivers have no way of knowing gatism of elderly patients. The system comprises wearable urine-excrement monitoring equipment and a mobile terminal, and the wearable urine-excrement monitoring equipment is in wireless connection with the mobile terminal through Bluetooth and comprises a single-chip microcomputer module, a sensor module, a power supply module and a Bluetooth module. The single-chip microcomputer module is connected with the sensor module, the power supply module and the Bluetooth module to acquire collected data of the sensor module and send alarm information to the mobile terminal through the Bluetooth module according to urine or excrement existence treatment results corresponding to the collected data. The sensor module comprises a urine sensor module and a gas sensor and used for monitoring urine and excrement.

The invention discloses an automatic adjusting device for testing and exercising balance ability of an elderly patient. The device includes a base, a groove is formed in the lower surface of the base,a sliding plate is slidably connected to the inner wall of the groove, a roller seat is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the sliding plate, a roller is arranged in the roller seat, a first pressure spring is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the sliding plate, the top of the first pressure spring is fixedly connected with the top of the inner wall of the groove, supporting arms are fixedly connected to the two sides, close to the top, of the base, and a positioning seat is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the base. According to the invention, the above structures areused in cooperation; the problems that in the actual use process, due to the fact that the exercise effect of the balance capacity provided by a traditional standing table for a patient is single, exercise of the dynamic balance capacity is difficult to provide, after the traditional standing table completely adapts to exercise of the static balance capacity, it is hard for the balance capacity of the patient to obtain effective exercise stimulation, and inconvenience is brought to use are solved.

The invention discloses a blood-glucose-lowering and pancreatic-islet-recovering plaster, and belongs to externally-used medicine for curing diabetes mellitus. The blood-glucose-lowering and pancreatic-islet-recovering plaster comprises radix scrophulariae, radix rehmanniae, liriope, trichosanthin, astragalus membranaceus, salvia miltiorrhiza, codonopsis pilosula, angelica sinensis, white muscardine silkworms, caulis spatholobi, cortex lycii radicis, quasi rhizoma dioscoreae, poria cocos, kudzu roots, schisandra chinensis, periostracum cicadae, coptis chinensis, salt-fried dodder, raw anemarrhena, raw gypsum powder, dark plums, bitter oranges, radix saposhnikoviae, rhizoma typhoon, pericarpium citri reticulatae viride, cistanche, cassia seeds, rhubarb, white peony roots, fenugreek, radix glycyrrhizae preparata, round-shaped rice, phenformin, glibenclamide and sesame oil, wherein each medicines acts synergistically. The blood-glucose-lowering and pancreatic-islet-recovering plaster performs the functions of yin nourishment, body strengthening, adverse Qi descending, stagnation elimination, liver clearing, vision improvement, yin-yang adjustment, kidney essence nourishment, blood nourishment and cooling, liquid engenderinging, thirst allaying, blood circulation promotion, stasis removal, meridian and collateral dredging, blood glucose lowering, pancreatic islet recovery, internal insulin secretion increase and recovery, global balance adjustment, metabolism enhancement, microcirculation improvement, prevention of the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, nephropathy, nervous lesions and ophthalmopathy, and prevention of ketone toxicosis of elderly patients, and the like, achieves a good curative effect when being used for curing the diabetes mellitus, take effect quickly, achieve an effect of treating both principal and secondary aspects of diseases, and can reach a goal that the diseases have low probability of relapsing after being cured.

The invention relates to the technical field of walking aids, and discloses a walking aid for elderly patient for supply oxygen to the elderly patient. The walking aid comprises a support frame, armrest plates are connected to the left and right sides of the upper part of the support frame; a fourth spring is arranged at the lower ends of the armrest plates, an auxiliary air pipe is connected intothe support frame, an air bag is connected to the right end of the auxiliary air pipe, ear hanging frames are connected to the right end of an oxygen pipe and the right end of the auxiliary air pipe,conical springs are fixedly connected to the left portions of the ear hanging frames, and rubber balls are fixedly connected to the lower ends of the conical springs. A palm is supported on the armrest plate; the force borne by the armrest plate corresponding to the suspended foot is greater than the pressure of the armrest corresponding to the foot landing; the armrest plate compresses the fourth spring to move downwards, air in the auxiliary air pipe is extruded, the air bag in the auxiliary air pipe expands, the air bag expands to extrude the rubber ball to move upwards, the oxygen pipe supplies oxygen to the nose of the human body through an air supply head, and through the structure, the supplied oxygen is prevented from being wasted when the human body exhales.

The invention discloses an external fixation brace for correcting varus and valgus malformation of knee joints. The external fixation brace comprises an upper fixing plate used for fixing the lower end of a thigh, and a lower fixing plate used for fixing a crus, wherein a connecting plate is connected with the side, close to the lower fixing plate, of the upper fixing plate; fixing rings are arranged at the two ends of the upper fixing plate and the two ends of the connecting plate, and a connecting shaft passes through the interior of each fixing ring; two columns of through holes are formed in the connecting plate in parallel, two columns of through holes are correspondingly formed in the side, close to the connecting plate, of the lower fixing plate, and screws are respectively inserted between the through holes of the connecting plate and the through holes of the lower fixing plate; binding bands are respectively and evenly arranged at the two ends of the upper fixing plate and the lower fixing plate; sticking fastener bands are respectively stuck at the ends of the binding bands. The external fixation brace provided by the invention can be automatically adjusted so as to solve the problem of arthritis caused by the varus and valgus malformation of the knee joints of an elderly patient, and can adjust the varus and valgus malformation of the knee joints of the patient at any time so as to correct the poor force line of the lower limb and further relieve the paint of the patient; furthermore, the external fixation brace is simple in structure, convenient to operate, low in cost and thorough in treatment.

The invention discloses a timed quantitative intelligent medicine box. The intelligent medicine box comprises a shell, an alarm clock device arranged in the shell, an electrical storage device, a medicine chamber and a counting device, wherein a medicine inlet is formed at the top of the medicine chamber, a medicine outlet is formed at the bottom of the medicine chamber, a medicine slide way is arranged under the medicine outlet, and the medicine slide way extends to a medicine taking port on the outside wall of the shell; the counting device comprises a miniature motor, a turntable with a medicine outlet gap, a rotating shaft and a contact switch; the miniature motor is rotationally connected with the turntable through the rotating shaft; and the turntable is mounted at the medicine outlet. The timed quantitative intelligent medicine box truly realizes a timed quantitative prompting function, effectively overcomes the problems that a user forgets to take medicine or take medicine along, a variety and a large quantity of drugs are taken and easy to mix, and the like, and really solves the problem of difficulty in taking medicine for patients with chronic diseases, especially elderly patients.