83 results about "Life care support" patented technology

A self-contained transportable life support system for resuscitation, stabilization, and transport of a patient has an environmentally controlled housing for receiving and supporting a patient and a plurality of medical devices disposed within the housing. A control circuit attached to the housing has at least a portion thereof extending to an external surface of the housing for regulating operation of the medical devices and environmental conditions of within the housing in response to monitored life support conditions of the patient.

A sensing unit, such as a camera, or the like, senses the conditions of articles and mobile existences, including humans, in a life space, such as a house of a household, or the like. An article management / operation server manages, on an article database, attribute information of the articles, which include operators, etc., according to the information from the sensing unit. The server receives a user's instruction input through a console unit and refers to the article database to convert this instruction to a control command, which is then transmitted to a life-support robot.

An emergency life support system including a patient ventilator for mechanical breathing assistance; a capnograph to monitor CO2 for ventilation effectiveness; a pulse oximeter for measuring blood stream oxygen saturation; a carbon dioxide sensor; an electrocardiograph (ECG) to monitor cardiac performance; an infusion pump; and alarms and a data recorder. The preferred embodiment uses an oxygen generator to deliver oxygen, to generate electric power to run the ventilation system, and to warm IV fluids and resuscitated air. The generator has electronically controlled valves and a modified valve system that offers the ability to select the oxygen concentration in the air delivered to the patient.

The present invention of one embodiment includes a combined microclimate, thermal management, life-support system for care of patient and system for measurement of vital signs. The system of one embodiment, provides active external heating and simultaneously provides active internal heating.

A premature neonate closed life support system (NCLSS) including: at least one chamber confining a cradle-like neonate support (CLNS) having suitable dimensions and geometric-configuration for accommodating at least one premature neonate having at least two operational configurations, said operational configurations comprising: a first operational OPEN configuration whereby said CLNS is adapted to couple said neonate to at least one life supporting system by means of at least one life supporting coupling line, prior to positioning said CLNS in a medical device; and a second operational air-tight CLOSED configuration whereby said neonate remains continuously coupled to said at least one life supporting system by means of at least one life supporting coupling line, when positioning said CLNS within said medical device. The OPEN and CLOSED configurations are reversible.

PCT No. PCT / CA95 / 00144 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 6, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 6, 1997 PCT Filed Mar. 15, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95 / 24936 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 21, 1995The flow of a biological fluid to an organ is computer controlled so that natural variation of such flow is simulated. Specifically described are control of a blood pump flow output during CPB to mimic normal pulsatile blood flow from the heart and control of a ventilator output To mimic normal breathing of healthy lungs. A pattern of variation over Time of instantaneous flow of a biological fluid to an organ of a mammalian species is established, a variable control parameter for regulation of flow of the biological fluid to the organ is generated in accordance with the pattern, and the flow of biological fluid is to the organ is controlled in accordance with the variable control parameter.

A docking-station useful for providing a neonate predefined, continuous, stabilized and non-interrupted life-support environmental conditions, comprising of: (i) a neonate incubator, having at least one first opening and a life support system, and (ii) an imaging-device, having a scanning chamber with at least one second opening. The docking-station is configured such that said neonate incubator first opening and said scanning chamber second opening are juxtapose-able so as to reversibly hermetically communicate; thereby providing said neonate predefined, continuous, stabilized, non-interrupted life-support environmental conditions during the entire process of scanning.

The present invention of one embodiment includes a combined microclimate, thermal management, life-support system for care of patient and system for measurement of vital signs. The system of one embodiment, provides active external heating and simultaneously provides active internal heating.

A sensing unit, such as a camera, or the like, senses the conditions of articles and mobile existences, including humans, in a life space, such as a house of a household, or the like. An article management / operation server manages, on an article database, attribute information of the articles, which include operators, etc., according to the information from the sensing unit. The server receives a user's instruction input through a console unit and refers to the article database to convert this instruction to a control command, which is then transmitted to a life-support robot.

A sensing unit, such as a camera, or the like, senses the conditions of articles and mobile existences, including humans, in a life space, such as a house of a household, or the like. An article management / operation server manages, on an article database, attribute information of the articles, which include operators, etc., according to the information from the sensing unit. The server receives a user's instruction input through a console unit and refers to the article database to convert this instruction to a control command, which is then transmitted to a life-support robot.

A patient support system adapted for attachment to the chassis of a vehicle. The vehicle has a cargo bed and a midline bisecting the cargo bed. The assembly includes a chassis mounting portion adapted to be attached to a side wall in the bed of the vehicle, a lateral adjustment mechanism attached to the chassis mounting portion and a litter supporting portion attached to the lateral adjustment mechanism. The assembly permits the litter supporting portion to be positioned near or over the midline of the cargo bed to facilitate the loading of a litter onto the litter supporting portion. After the litter lockingly engages the litter supporting portion, the litter supporting portion can be repositioned laterally with respect to the midline of the vehicle bed. In a preferred embodiment, two assemblies, each of which is a mirror image of the other, are attached to opposing walls in the cargo bed of the vehicle. When the assemblies are moved laterally, a corridor is created between adjacent litters that can be used by an attendant to provide life support.

The invention discloses a mobile life support system, comprising a general stretcher and a bearing frame arranged at the lower part of the general stretcher, a supporting transportation cart is arranged at the lower part of the bearing frame, an inflatable biochemistry-prevention separating cover is arranged at the upper part of the general stretcher, rapid locks of stretcher handles are arranged at two ends of the bearing frame, a rapid locking hole and a drawer connected with the rapid lock on the supporting transportation cart, and a first fixing hole and a second fixing hole which respectively receive a transfusion pole and a urethral catheterization bag are arranged on the side surface of the bearing frame, an assisted lifting rod or a hanger fastening handle are respectively arranged at two sides at two ends of the bearing frame, and a limit neck for locating the general stretcher and the supporting transportation cart are arranged on the bearing frame. The system integrates the first aid, recovery, monitoring, treating, transportation, prevention and protection, and information storage and transmission into one body, thereby being capable of prompting emergent treatment of medical institution and rapid reacting capacity and leading severe patients to obtain timely cure within prime time.

A patient support system adapted for attachment to the chassis of a vehicle. The vehicle has a cargo bed and a midline bisecting the cargo bed. The assembly includes a chassis mounting portion adapted to be attached to a side wall in the bed of the vehicle, a lateral adjustment mechanism attached to the chassis mounting portion and a litter supporting portion attached to the lateral adjustment mechanism. The assembly permits the litter supporting portion to be positioned near or over the midline of the cargo bed to facilitate the loading of a litter onto the litter supporting portion. After the litter lockingly engages the litter supporting portion, the litter supporting portion can be repositioned laterally with respect to the midline of the vehicle bed. In a preferred embodiment, two assemblies, each of which is a mirror image of the other, are attached to opposing walls in the cargo bed of the vehicle. When the assemblies are moved laterally, a corridor is created between adjacent litters that can be used by an attendant to provide life support.

A lightweight, strong, sturdy, and versatile evacuation sled is disclosed. The body of the sled may be manufactured from a single piece of material, stored flat, and folded into its functioning configuration. When folded, the sled has one or more straps that help hold it in its folded configuration and allow maneuvering or carrying the sled. The sled may be readily towed with a towing harness and may be moved down an incline, such as stairs, by means of a rope and belay device. The sled has a low coefficient of friction and is lightweight, allowing the sled to be readily moved and handled without requiring the assistance of multiple people. Additional sleds with foam inserts may be provided to carry equipment such as for life support. The sled may also provide surge capacity for facilities like hospitals, as the sled is designed to be inexpensive and essentially disposable.

A magnetically permeable neonate transport capsule (MPNTC) for transporting a premature neonate from a host infant incubator having a steady environmental condition to an MRD. The MPNTC has at least one first normally open configuration when the capsule is disposed within the incubator and a second closed configuration for removal, transportation, insertion, measurement and vice versa within an MRD device. The MPNTC includes an environmental control system thereby adapted to maintain continuous attachment of the neonate with life support connection lines. The MPNTC is further adapted to maintain environmental conditions substantially similar to the host infant incubator environmental condition when the MPNTC is transported from the incubator to the MRD device.

A method and associated system for processing waste gases, liquids and solids, produced by human activity, to separate (i) liquids suitable for processing to produce potable water, (ii) solids and liquids suitable for construction of walls suitable for enclosing a habitat volume and for radiation shielding, and (iii) other fluids and solids that are not suitable for processing. A forward osmosis process and a reverse osmosis process are sequentially combined to reduce fouling and to permit accumulation of different processable substances. The invention may be used for long term life support of human activity.

Systems and methods of providing life support are provided. A life support system includes a first life support device that has a control unit and is configured to apply a life support protocol to a subject. The first life support device also includes a memory unit that can store life support protocol information, and the control unit can provide the life support protocol information to a second life support device. The control unit can also receive operating instructions from the second life support device based on the life support protocol information, and can implement the operating instructions.

There is provided a patient care and treatment platform that is connectable to a plurality of modules capable of providing medical functionality. The platform includes a housing and a patient support surface. The platform also includes a power receiver for receiving power. The platform further includes a module interface including power, data, and pneumatic spines having power data and pneumatic ports, respectively. The spines are operative to transfer data, power, and fluid within the platform. The ports are connectable to the modules to integrate the modules into the platform. The platform also includes a head fairing having a patient interface panel. The head fairing includes an inner surface that is substantially concave in shape and slopes away from the patient support surface to allow access to the head of a patient. The patient interface panel includes a plurality of ports connectable to electrical and pneumatic apparatus.

The invention discloses a boat-mounted saturation diving escape compartment and belongs to the field of diving escape equipment. The boat-mounted saturation diving escape compartment comprises an escape boat and an escape compartment body arranged in the escape boat, a driving cab is arranged in the escape boat, separated from the escape compartment body and sealed, a power device and a propellerare arranged at the tail of the escape boat, the propeller is connected on the power device which can drive the propeller to rotate, a driving cab control panel is connected with a power source and the power device through electric wires, and an operation personnel in the driving cab operates and controls the escape boat; a life supporting system is arranged at the bottom of the escape boat, and hoisting heads are arranged at two ends of the outside of the escape boat, so that convenience is brought to a mother boat to collect and release the escape boat; a side cabin door is arranged on the side wall of the escape boat for divers to enter. The escape compartment body is arranged in the escape boat which is piloted and self-powered, so that when danger occurs, the divers can enter the escape compartment body, and the escape boat can carry the divers to get out of a dangerous sea area.

There is provided a patient care and treatment platform that is connectable to a plurality of modules capable of providing medical functionality. The platform includes a housing and a patient support surface. The platform also includes a power receiver for receiving power. The platform further includes a module interface including power, data, and pneumatic spines having power data and pneumatic ports, respectively. The spines are operative to transfer data, power, and fluid within the platform. The ports are connectable to the modules to integrate the modules into the platform. The platform also includes a head fairing having a patient interface panel. The head fairing includes an inner surface that is substantially concave in shape and slopes away from the patient support surface to allow access to the head of a patient. The patient interface panel includes a plurality of ports connectable to electrical and pneumatic apparatus.

A life support algorithm display system for providing convenient access to basic life support or advanced life support algorithms for a user during an emergency features an I.V. (intravenous) pole located on a base. The system features a plurality of rectangular life support algorithm cards with a tab located on a card bottom edge. A life support algorithm is printed on each card. The system features a plurality of display modules each having a side arm attached to a clip. The clip is adapted to snugly, yet pivotally clip onto the I.V. pole allowing the display module to rotate around the I.V. pole. Each life support algorithm card is located in a display module with the tab passing through a module bottom aperture. Each display module is clipped onto the I.V. pole and adapted to be rotated for viewing.

The invention discloses an extracorporeal life support flood circulation device and a flow path design method thereof. The extracorporeal life support flood circulation device comprises a centrifugalpump, an oxygenator, a sensor, a flow path loop and a driving system, wherein the centrifugal pump, the oxygenator and the driving system are integrated in one device, and a method of combining haemodynamics with analog simulation is used for designing and manufacturing the flow path loop. The extracorporeal life support flood circulation device has the advantages of being integrated, all-in-one and portable, efficient gas exchange after integration is realized, and a blood damage degree is lowered. The equipment is convenient to use, can carry out short-time power-failure transportation alongwith a bed, is extremely suitable for first-aid and assistance situations, and has a high popularization degree and low operation difficulty.

The invention discloses a ventilation mode display method and device of life support equipment as well as the life support equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: storing all the ventilation mode information capable of being supported by the life support equipment according to the configuration settings of the user on the life support equipment, wherein the ventilation mode information at least include a ventilation mode identifier and the ventilation mode sequence information; when the life support equipment finishes initialization or reactivate the configurations, performing a first reading instruction to read all the ventilation mode information; selecting an interface element and / or a control according to the need to create a first interface component; generating a first data flow according to the first display region information, the first interface component and the ventilation mode identifier as well as the ventilation mode sequence information; and dynamically displaying the ventilation mode in a manner of tabs according to the first data flow. According to the ventilation mode display method and device disclosed by the invention, the user can more easily look up and switch the ventilation mode supported by the equipment, the user operations are decreased and the usability is improved.

The present invention provides a life support system, related devices, and methods of use for the same. More particularly, the invention provides a support system for a neonate or fetus comprising a tank at least partially filled with simulated amniotic fluid, a dialysis system, an oxygenator, and a nutritional feeder.

This invention is directed to a method for affixing an apparatus to a parent to allow skin-to-skin contact with an infant connected to medical tubing. The method includes placement of medical tubes and / or sensors into a two-part clip on the apparatus having a first clip portion and a corresponding second clip portion—both connected through a spring action hinge. A locking means on the first clip portion next affixes to the second clip portion to ensure the medical tubing does not become dislodged. After ensuring there are no kinks or bends in the medical tubing, a fastening means (for example, a flat panel with an adhesive layer) attached to the apparatus is positioned proximate to the parent's chest (or article of clothing) and then affixed. A rotating means (between the two-part clip and fastening means) can be used to rotate the apparatus to ensure the comfort of the neonatal infant.

The invention relates to a shallow seabed dry type oil extraction device personnel cabin entering and exiting system. A cabin external structure assembly is vertically suspended on a water surface supporting assembly, power is supplied through the water surface supporting assembly, and a mechanical assembly used for executing drainage, water injection, gas supplementation and emergency operation is installed in the cabin external structure assembly; a life support assembly used for providing oxygen for breathing and an electric control assembly used for providing cabin inside illumination, equipment power supply and signal collection and processing are included; a dry cabin hatch assembly is further included, when the cabin external structure assembly and the dry cabin hatch assembly are in butt joint, the interior of the cabin external structure assembly and the interior of the dry cabin hatch assembly are communicated, and a vertical channel for personnel to pass through is formed. The shallow seabed dry type oil extraction device personnel cabin entering and exiting system can be used for achieving dry-type normal-pressure entering and exiting of the personnel for maintaining ashallow underwater oil extraction dry-type cabin, and harm to the health of the personnel is avoided; the shallow seabed dry type oil extraction device personnel cabin entering and exiting system is good in economical efficiency and low in maintenance cost; the shallow seabed dry type oil extraction device personnel cabin entering and exiting system is easy to transport, and multiple oil wells canshare the same system; and the shallow seabed dry type oil extraction device personnel cabin entering and exiting system has no influence on navigation channels and military areas and is wide in application range.

The invention discloses a medical first-aid robot device. The device senses the state and environment change of the robot device in real time, is standby or touring in a medical institution and a public area, responds to emergency medical assistance requirements in time, autonomously arrives at a preset position and finds a patient needing help; and an intelligent autonomous or man-machine co-fusion cooperative method is adopted, and diagnosis and treatment first-aid operations such as physical examination, physical and chemical examination, intelligent diagnosis, life support and surgical situation disposal are provided.

The invention relates to the respiratory organs protection technical means that provide human with life support in the atmosphere unsuitable for breathing. Insulating breather with closed breathing mixture circulation loop (self-contained self-rescue, SCSR) is equipped with a cylinder (15) containing pressurized oxygen. The breather has increased effectiveness of the treatment of the exhaled gas mixture and improved quality of the inhaling gas mixture by using the breathing mixture circulation loop of the present invention and using means for simultaneous mechanical pressing on the breath-out bag (4) and the breath-in bag (8) and the additional cooling.

The invention aims to provide a wedge-shaped locking type portable life support system with a fracture fixation function, and relates to the field of medical equipment. The wedge-shaped locking type portable life support system with the fracture fixation function comprises a life support system main body box, a portable handle and a wedge-shaped rapid locking and fixing device, wherein the portable handle and the wedge-shaped rapid locking and fixing device are fixedly mounted on the life support system main body box; and the life support system main body box comprises a negative-pressure fracture fixation device, an aspirator, an infusion pump, a defibrillator, an anesthesia machine, a respirator, an oxygenerator and a power supply device. a control panel, a monitoring displaying system and various supply valves are arranged on the outer surface of the life support system main body box. The wedge-shaped rapid locking and fixing device is used for rapidly fixing the life supporting system main body box on a general stretcher. The wedge-shaped locking type portable life support system with the fracture fixation function has fracture fixation and first-aid functions and an intensivecare function for a wounded person in a transfer process, and is small in size, light in weight and convenient to carry; and the life support system main body box can be rapidly fixed.

The invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle wounded transferring pod, and belongs to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicle rescue. The transferring pod comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle and a pod installed at the lower end of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The pod is of a modularized detachable structure; functional modules arranged in the pod comprise a life support module, an indication monitoring module, a communication module, a steady state control module and a stretcher plate; the life support module is used for providing oxygen and keeping temperature; the indication monitoring module is used for monitoring physiological indexes of the wounded; the communication module is used for monitoring the wounded person in the pod in real time and communicating the wounded person with the ground console; the stretcher plate can be mounted in the nacelle in an inserting manner; and the steady state control module is used for carrying out pitching compensation on the stretcher plate, so that the stretcher plate is kept horizontal and stable. By arranging the life support module, the indication monitoring module, the communication module, the steady state control module, the stretcher plate and other functional modules, the transferring pod can safely and rapidly transfer the wounded, and rapid transfer treatment of the wounded is achieved.