182 results about "Initial treatment" patented technology

A pressure support system and method in which a gas flow generating system provides a continuous flow of breathing gas at selectable pressure levels. A patient circuit and interface communicate the continuous flow of breathing gas to the airway of a patient. A controller causes the gas flow generating system to provide the continuous flow of breathing gas to the patient at a first pressure level P1 in an initial therapy session. Thereafter, the pressure level of the continuous flow of breathing gas is increased from the first pressure level P1 to a final pressure level P2 over a first predetermined number D of days. More specifically, in one embodiment, the pressure level is incrementally increased by a predetermined incremental amount DELTAp after n therapy sessions taking place on separate days over this first predetermined number D of days. As a result, the current therapy pressure in each therapy session that takes place on separate days following the initial therapy session is incrementally and automatically increased.

A mobile station and methods are disclosed for diagnosing and modeling site specific effluent treatment facility requirements to arrive at a treatment regimen and/or proposed commercial plant model idealized for the particular water/site requirements. The station includes a mobile platform having power intake, effluent intake and fluid outflow facilities and first and second suites of selectably actuatable effluent pre-treatment apparatus. An effluent polishing treatment array is housed at the station and includes at least one of nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and ion-exchange stages. A suite of selectively actuatable post-treatment apparatus is housed at the station. Controls are connected at the station for process control, monitoring and data accumulation. A plurality of improved water treatment technologies is also disclosed. The modeling methods include steps for analyzing raw effluent to be treated, providing a field of raw effluent condition entry values and a field of treated effluent condition goals entry values, and utilizing said fields to determine an initial treatment model including a selection of, and use parameters for, treatment technologies from the plurality of down-scaled treatment technologies at the facility, the model dynamically and continuously modifiable during treatment modeling.

A computerized clinic management system. The system includes a database of patient records and a database of clinic resources reflecting a temporal availability of each individual resource in the database of clinic resources. The system optionally also includes and a scheduling module designed and configured to determine an initial subset of clinic resources required for an initial treatment plan for a patient based upon analysis of the database of patient records and to determine an initial schedule of therapy for said patient based upon further analysis of temporal availability of the subset of said clinic resources.

Methods for treating vascular disease in humans and generating data representing treatment plans are disclosed. A first set of clinical vascular health data from a healthcare provider and representing a vascular health condition of a patient is received at a data center server that is communicatively coupled to a public data network. One or more vascular disease analysis algorithms are applied to the first set of vascular health data, to result in creating and storing an initial treatment plan for the patient. A second set of vascular health data is received from a monitoring device that is associated with the patient and that is communicatively coupled to the data network; the second set of data include Doppler monitor data obtained from the peripheral vascular system of the patient. One or more vascular analysis algorithms are applied to result in creating one or more supplementary treatment plans for the patient. At least one of the treatment plans includes a biofeedback interaction. The treatment plans are provided to the patient over the data network. The foregoing steps are iteratively repeated one or more times as determined by the physician and patient, resulting in improved vascular health.

A virtual orthodontic treatment method and a system thereof, the method comprising the following: providing a virtual diagnostic setup model of teeth of at least one jaw of an individual, associating each teeth in said model with its corresponding virtual orthodontic appliance to obtain a first composite model and repositioning teeth into an initial treatment state according to pre-defined appliances-dependent rules. In the initial treatment state, selecting one or more teeth and reassociating the teeth with their corresponding virtual orthodontic appliance by changing the position of the appliance corresponding to the selected tooth thereby causing repositioning of the teeth according to the appliance-dependence rules. An altered treatment state is obtained, yielding a better grade, according to one or more systems for grading an orthodontic model, as compared to the grade of the initial treatment state.

The invention includes components comprising an alloy containing a base metal and less than or equal to 30% alloying elements. The material has a grain size of less than or equal to about 30 microns and an absence of voids and inclusions of a size greater than 1 micron. The components have a yield strength at least 50% greater than the identical alloy composition in the 0 temper condition. Where the material is heat treatable, the yield strength is at least 10% greater than the identical composition in the T6 temper condition. The invention includes a method of producing components by casting and initial treatment to form a billet. The billet is subjected to equal channel angular extrusion and subsequent annealing at a temperature of less than or equal to 0.85 times the minimum temperature for inducing growth of submicron grains to over 1 micron.

Methods and systems are provided for manufacturing an appliance for correcting malocclusions of a patient's teeth. The method may include measuring the positions of a patient's teeth and receiving tooth movement constraints. The method may also include generating an initial treatment plan based on the measured tooth positions and the tooth movement constraints and measuring the malocclusions of the patient's teeth for one or more types of dental malocclusions. The method may also include generating a plurality of treatment plans from the initial treatment plan based on the measured malocclusion and generating a model of an appliance for each stage of the treatment plan. The method may also include generating instructions for fabricating the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan based on the model of the appliance for each stage of the treatment plan.

The invention provides a method for preparing ultra-metallurgical grade silicon, which comprises the following steps: initial treatment of a silicon source; acid leaching purification; acid cleaning purification; ultrasonic heating purification; solid-liquid separation; and sieve classification, wherein the acid leaching purification comprises the combined use of mechanical activation and acid cleaning. The method for preparing the ultra-metallurgical grade silicon has the advantages of simple process flow, less environmental pollution, low cost and easy large-scale production.

A system provides clinicians with realtime medication suggestions. A treatment decision support system comprises at least one repository including information associating candidate treatment items, treatment costs, treatment supply availability, patient specific medical information and corresponding related treatment parameters. An individual treatment item is associated with multiple related treatment parameters. A communication processor accesses the information in the at least one repository. A treatment decision processor uses accessed information provided by the communication processor for providing data representing candidate treatments in response to user entry of data identifying an initial treatment based on both clinical and non-clinical factors. The non-clinical factors include lowest cost and availability and the clinical factors include patient specific medical information and predetermined treatment guidelines for treating a particular medical condition. A display processor provides data representing at least one display image identifying the candidate treatments.

The invention discloses a preparation method of chicken bone meal and a chicken essence containing the same. The preparation method comprises the steps of initial treatment of chicken skeletons, grinding, enzymolysis, enzyme deactivation, finish grinding and high-pressure spray drying, wherein a raw material adopted in the method is commercially available low-price fresh chicken bones, a lot of protein and minerals of calcium, phosphorus and the like are extracted from the chicken bones, and meanwhile, chicken bone marrows are fully extracted, so that the comprehensive utilization value of the chicken skeletons is developed; by using the preparation method, the product yield of the chicken bones can reach up to 98%; the preparation method is simple, has low technical requirements, and is low in equipment cost and high in efficiency; moreover, protease and flavor enzyme adopted in the step of enzymolysis can be flexibly added according to required tastes of customers, so that the chicken bone meal has an extremely wide application range, and not only can be used for preparing the chicken essence but also can be applied to other seasonings or food additive materials.

Methods for decreasing the size and/or changing the shape of pelvic tissues. In one embodiment a cannula needle having a laser fiber disposed therein is used to delivery energy to the surrounding pelvic tissue. The cannula needle may be advanced into the pelvic tissue, such as the vagina, with the laser fiber in a retracted position and retained within the distal tip of the cannula needle for protection. Upon reaching the initial treatment zone, the laser fiber may be advanced or motivated into an extended position where the distal end of the laser fiber extends beyond the distal tip of the cannula. Laser energy may then be applied as the device is withdrawn from the patient. The application of such energy may be constant, intermittent, increasing, and/or decreasing as needed. The energy application may also be deactivated if a maximum activation time, maximum temperature, or maximum energy level is reached.

A system of multiple scoliosis treatment braces is custom fitted for a torso of a patient and organized in a sequential series, with each of the braces varying from a previous brace in the series by at least one shape characteristic. The sequential series of braces includes an initial treatment brace with an initial configuration that conforms to an initial shape of the torso, a final treatment brace with a final configuration that approximates a desired shape of the torso, and at least one intermediate treatment brace with an intermediate configuration that approximates a torso shape between the initial configuration and the final configuration. The initial configuration, the intermediate configuration and the final configuration may be determined, at least in part, by a single digital profile of the torso of the patient.