8091 results about "Medical staff" patented technology

A sensor adapter cable provides medical personnel with the convenience of utilizing otherwise incompatible optical sensors with multiple blood parameter plug-ins to a physiological monitor, where the plug-ins each have keyed connectors that mechanically lock-out incompatible sensors in addition readers that poll sensor identification components in each sensor so as to electrically lock-out incompatible sensors.

The invention provides an apparatus and system for ablation of body structures or tissue in the region of the rectum. A catheter is inserted into the rectum, and an electrode is disposed thereon for emitting energy. The environment for an ablation region is isolated or otherwise controlled by blocking gas or fluid using a pair of inflatable balloons at upstream and downstream locations. Inflatable balloons also serve to anchor the catheter in place. A plurality of electrodes are disposed on the catheter and at least one such electrode is selected and advanced out of the catheter to penetrate and ablate selected tissue inside the body in the region of the rectum. The electrodes are coupled to sensors to determine control parameters of the body structure or tissue, and which are used by feedback technique to control delivery of energy for ablation or fluids for cooling or hydration. The catheter includes an optical path disposed for coupling to an external view piece, so as to allow medical personnel to view or control positioning of the catheter and operation of the electrodes. The catheter is disposed to deliver flowable substances for aiding in ablation, or for aiding in repair of tissue, such as collagen or another substance for covering lesions or for filling fissures. The flowable substances are delivered using at least one lumen in the catheter, either from at least one hole in the catheter, from an area of the catheter covered by a microporous membrane, or from microporous balloons.

A method of alerting medical personnel of a problem during hemodialysis includes providing an active, fail-to-safe site sensor for a fistula needle at an access site during hemodialysis; and automatically alerting medical personnel of a problem during hemodialysis using the active, fail-to-safe site sensor during at least the following: failing of the active, fail-to-safe site sensor; insufficient powering to the active, fail-to-safe site sensor; partial fistula needle dislodging from the access site; and complete needle dislodging from the access site.

The invention discloses a medical diagnosis X-ray high frequency high pressure generator, comprising a power supply, a central control unit, a high frequency inverter circuit, a pulse width modulation driving circuit and a high pressure transform and high pressure output circuit. The generator transforms the industrial power to two ways of high frequency and high pressure, a positive direct current high pressure and a negative direct current high pressure are obtained through rectifying and wave-filtering to provide an X-ray ball tube to work. As the frequency is high, the ripple of the rectified and wave-filtered high electric pressure is tiny, and the X-ray quality projected by the X-ray ball tube is high, and the clearance of photos of the perspective and photograph is also high. The X-ray ball tube of a photograph bed or the X-ray ball tube of an electric perspective bed can work if allocated with the high pressure power. The invention is convenient for the medical staff to use the X-ray to do the work of diagnosing diseases. As the high pressure power supply, the invention is also suitable in the safety inspection fields such as industrial flaw detection, civil aviation, station and customs etc, and provides a stable and high qualified high pressure power supply for the equipments.

The present invention provides a system and method for remote patient monitoring and caring, wherein the system has a distributed architecture. The system comprises sensors for measuring real-time physiological parameters, such as ECG and SpO₂, from patients. The system also comprises a monitoring terminal for monitoring these parameters. A local processing station analyzes the real-time physiological parameters. A central processing system processes the real-time physiological parameters and their analysis, in combination with the relevant historical medical data, for each patient. The medical staff uses this processed data to provide required medical care to the patients. Further, the system provides remote access of patients' data, via remote access stations

A needle biopsy instrument for retrieving a tissue sample from an internal organ such as needle biopsy forceps, includes a pushing surface for safely dislodging a tissue sample from the needle after the instrument containing the sample is retrieved from the patient using mechanical control means operated from the proximal handle to thereby avoid the risk of accidental cuts, punctures and other injuries to medical personnel while trying to manually remove the sample. The instrument has a cam mechanism, or other mechanical links scissor links for operating the cups and producing relative movement between the pushing surface and axis of the needle to cause a tissue sample to be moved toward and eventually off of the tip of the needle into a sample receiving cup. An axial reciprocating control member attached to either the needle or the pushing surface produces the relative movement and is manually controlled by a handle or other grip at the proximal end of the forceps. The needle is either retracted axially from the distal toward the proximal end of the device, or a pushing member attached to the distal end of an actuating cable or cable is moved distally along the axis of a stationary needle. A latch mechanism can be provided on the proximal end to release a biasing force to provide the relative movement between the needle and pushing member to slide a tissue sample off the needle.

A hearing assist device is associated with an ear of a user. Health characteristics of the user are measured by sensors of the hearing assist device. The measured health characteristics may be analyzed in the hearing assist device, or transmitted from the hearing assist device for remote analysis. Based on the analysis, alerts, instructions, and other information may be displayed to the user in the form of text or graphics, or may be played by the hearing assist device in the form of sound/voice. Medical personnel may be alerted when problems with the user are detected by the hearing assist device. The user may provide verbal commands to the hearing assist device. The hearing assist device may be configured to filter sounds, and may be configured for a personal hearing frequency response of the user. The hearing assist device may be configured for speech recognition to recognize commands.

A self-inflating, intragastric balloon device is activated by addition of an activating liquid into an acid or water soluble vessel located within the balloon. After an approximately pre-determined time period post-activation, the activating liquid breaches the vessel wall and causes contact between an acid in liquid form and an emissive substance within the balloon, causing it to inflate. The device is conveniently provided to medical personnel as part of a kit that further contains a syringe and the activating liquid. The device also can have acid or pepsin degradable portions that cause it to deflate after residing in the stomach for a prolonged period of time during which it imparts a feeling of satiety in the patient.

A device for painlessly injecting medications, and a method for providing a substantially painless injection of medication into a patient that does not require the use of an anesthetic, that does not require the medical personnel to spend a substantial amount of time performing the injection procedure, that is relatively simple and inexpensive to perform and operate, and that provides a relatively high degree of safety for both the medical personnel and for the patient. The injection needle can have an outside diameter greater than 0.20 mm and less than about 0.38 mm. The medicament can be injected painlessly through the needle and into the patient at a substantially constant volumetric flow rate of about 0.05 μL/s to about 50 μL/s.

The systems methods described herein incorporate on teamwork in which all of the participants (patients, medical staff, and medical care providers), contribute to the medical visit, medical record generation, and billing for the visit. The systems and methods include three aspects, which are referred to herein as portals: 1) a patient portal 130, which allows patients to interact with the system; 2) a clinical portal 150, which serves as a medium in which medical staff and providers interact with the system; and 3) a billing portal 170, which serves as a medium in which the medical providers and billing personnel interact with the system.

The Electronic Compliance Promoter is a computer system for increasing a patient's compliance with medical post-care treatment instructions. The system permits the patient to review the treatment instructions that have been entered into a treatment instructions database by medical personnel at the time of the examination. The system includes a patient-client computer interface, a medical person-client interface, a treatment instructions database, and a compliance-server program. The database contains the post-visit care instructions and other types of information that the patient should have to understand and follow those instructions. The database also has treatment guideline information to assist the doctor in formulating the post-care treatment instructions. The patients client-computer interface provides a knowledge-based means for the patient to review interactively the Doctor's after care instructions, and measures compliance by tracking a patients' use of the specific designated diagnosis related resources. The medical personnel client-computer interface provides a knowledge-based means to designate the post-care medical visit instructions the patient is to follow. The compliance-server program tracks patients compliance and can send messages to patients reminding them to review the post-care treatment instructions. The Electronic Compliance Promoter system provides a means to significantly increase a patient's compliance with medical care instructions.

An improved outlet tube device for a urinary drainage bag is disclosed wherein an outlet valve mechanism is contained with a rigid housing fixed securely to the drainage bag, rather than just being clamped to the outlet tubing, and thus cannot become separated from the bag. The outlet valve can be opened only by positive action on the part of the medical care personnel, thereby assuring that urine will be discharged only in a controlled manner. Further, because the valve mechanism does not require that a substantial length of tubing with a freely movable end be used in conjunction with the outlet port, there is no need to engage the free end of the tubing with a keeper. Thus the possibility of the tubing springing back to its straight configuration and flicking residual urine on the attending medical personnel is eliminated. In one embodiment the outlet tube device comprises a pinchcock-type valve which is fixedly mounted to the bag and which is normally operative to clamp off the outlet tube. In a second embodiment the outlet tube device comprises a syringetype fitting which is fixedly mounted to the bag. Depressing the syringe plunger closes the valve, and retracting the plunger opens the valve to permit fluid to be discharged through the outlet tube. In a third embodiment, a hose clamp is contained within a rigid housing and is selectively operative to clamp a hose to prevent fluid flow therethrough.

Telemedicine systems and methods are described. In a telemedicine system operable to communicate with a remote operations center, communications can be transmitted/received using a transceiver having an antenna. The antenna can include first and second di-pole antenna elements, the first di-pole antenna element being vertically polarized and the second di-pole antenna element being horizontally polarized. A controller of the system can establish, using the transceiver, a telemedicine session with the operations center using a Transport Morphing Protocol (TMP), the TMP being an acknowledgement-based user datagram protocol. The controller can also mask one or more transient network degradations to increase resiliency of the telemedicine session. The telemedicine system can include a 2D and 3D carotid Doppler and transcranial Doppler and/or other diagnostic devices, and provides for real-time connectivity and communication between medical personnel in an emergency vehicle and a receiving hospital for immediate diagnosis and treatment to a patient in need.

A system for measuring at least one physiological parameter of the user, analyzing the parameter measured and providing feedback to the user. Analysis of at least one physiological parameter of the user may optionally and preferably be performed by a remotely located data processing server. The present invention enables such a measurement to preferably be used to directly generate medical information about the user, optionally performed by the sensing device or alternately by the remote server or alternately by the gateway. Such information may then optionally be sent to medical personnel, for example at a contact monitoring center and/or to any other location, through a gateway device. The gateway device is preferably a mobile gateway device and communicates with the preferred but exemplary wrist-mounted device of the present invention through a wireless communication channel.

Systems and methods related to efficient practice of medicine, with a particular focus in the dermatologic field. The systems methods described herein rely on teamwork in which all of the participants (patients, medical staff and medical care providers) contribute to the medical visit, medical record generation, and billing for the visit. The systems and methods include three aspects, which are referred to herein as portals: 1) a patient portal 130, which allows patients to interact with the system; 2) a clinical portal 150, which serves as a medium in which medical staff and providers interact with the system, and 3) a billing portal 170, which serves as a medium in which the medical providers and billing personnel interact with the system.

A device cooperating with a pump for guiding a contrast medium from a source thereof to a catheter for delivery to a patient's vascular system. The device comprises a dual check valve, a tubular member, an in-line check valve and a three-port stopcock. The dual check valve has an inlet port connectable to the source of contrast medium, an inlet-outlet port connectable to the pump, and an outlet port coupled to the tubular member. The in-line check valve is connected to the tubular member at a point spaced from the dual check valve for preventing fluid flow towards the dual check valve. The stopcock connected at a first port to the in-line check valve, a second port of the stopcock being operatively connectable to the catheter. Using this device, medical personnel infuses contrast medium into the patient from the source without having to disconnect any element from the device during the infusion process.

The invention provides a remote medical information acquisition system and belongs to the technical field of information acquisition. The system is based on a wireless communication network formed by an existing wireless network and a portable communication device and is implemented through the following steps: arranging a mobile terminal application program and a far-end server scheduler program on a remote server; arranging an external information acquisition unit on the portable communication device; enabling the portable communication device to download and run a remote medical system mobile terminal application program; and intelligently selecting and outputting information guide by virtue of built-in software so as to assist non-medical staff to observe according to a specified sequence/method and imitate the diagnosis process of a clinician, carrying out information/characteristic acquisition on various characteristics of a patient according to medical standards, so as to generate original electronic physiological data, and then splitting/packaging/uploading the original electronic physiological data to a designated server. The system can guarantee the integrity and pertinence of information to the largest extent, is low in installation and operation cost, is easy to realize, and is suitable for information acquisition field for various remote medical treatment /healthcare/nursing/monitoring systems.

The invention discloses an intelligent home based old person caring device and belongs to the technical field of Internet of things. The device comprises a sign detection terminal, a fall detection terminal, a remote server and a personal mobile terminal, wherein the sign detection terminal is used for monitoring pulse, body temperature and heart rate data of a human body in real time and sending the data to the remote server; the fall detection terminal is used for monitoring acceleration, posture change and geographical position of the human body in real time, and sending alarm information and position information to the remote server and the personal mobile terminal when detecting the occurrence of fall, and a user receives falling condition information of old persons in real time through the personal mobile terminal and logging in of the remote server. The device can realize remote access, monitoring and positioning to the device user by medical staff and family members via dependence on the Internet of things about intelligent home while monitoring physical conditions and falling conditions of the old persons, and performs real-time attention on the health status of the old persons, so as to provide rescue and help in the shortest time conveniently.

A method for transmitting personal health information from a databank to a health facility. An individual's health information is stored in a database, and the information is sent to authorized users as needed. The information is stored in the database by coding an individual's private file with a unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The individual is provided with an electronically readable identifier (ERI) that corresponds to the unique identifying number or alpha-numeric sequence. The ERI can be scanned by medical personnel with the appropriate scanner. The scanner is authenticated by the database, and the information corresponding to that individual is sent back to the scanner for use by the emergency medical personnel. The health information can also be sent to a hospital. The entire process requires authentication of the medical personnel and validation of the ERI for security purposes.

The invention is of a stethoscope cleansing unit and of the use of the stethoscope cleansing unit as a novel business method for promoting a marketer's logo and advertisement to medical personnel and patients in the examining room or hospital. The system attaches such advertisements to a useful and conveniently used stethoscope cleansing unit that will be used by medical personnel to sterilize stethoscope diaphragms between patient assessments, thereby preventing the spread of infectious diseases. This apparatus can be utilized in a novel business method as a way for marketers to distinguish their product from the myriad of others by 1) attracting the attention of busy medical personnel during patient examinations, which is the exact time that medical product marketers would benefit most from such attention; and by 2) attracting the attention of the patient through its presence in the examining room at a time when the patient is typically waiting for attention and has time to notice such advertisements.

A medical treatment planning system includes a computer including a processor and memory, data stored in the memory, said data including a priori of information relating to medical conditions, medical treatments and treatment results, and treatment planning logic stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The treatment planning logic includes logic that obtains pre-treatment patient data describing the patient's medical condition, logic that analyzes the pre-treatment patient data relative to the a priori of information and, based on the analysis, formulates a first treatment plan for treating the patient, and logic that outputs the first treatment plan for evaluation by medical personnel.

A digital medical diagnostic system according to the present invention enables ophthalmologists to view patient and other images remotely to diagnose various conditions. The system includes at least one modality, one or more viewing stations, and an image server. The modality generates patient images associated with examinations, while the image server retrieves and processes information from the modalities. The image server may accommodate modalities utilizing different interfaces and/or formats. The viewing stations enable remote access to the images via a network (e.g., Internet), where the image server provides the interface for a user in the form of screens or web pages for security and viewing of information. The system enables an ophthalmologist or other medical personnel to view and/or manipulate one or more images to enhance diagnosis of patient examinations.

A vascular access port is disclosed for subcutaneous implantation. The port is particularly adapted to be affixed to a bone to securely hold the port in position, to assist medical personnel in finding the port and to decrease a visibility of the port. The port has a chamber therein which is accessed by a needle through a septum adjacent the chamber. The chamber is placed into fluid communication with the vascular structure of the patient, such as through catheter tubing. The chamber is surrounded by a body with an outer surface which is preferably fitted with threads to facilitate secure but removable attachment of the port within a hole in the bone where the port is to be implanted.

Methods and apparatuses for space-optimized visualization catheters are provided. Some embodiments utilize complimentary metal-oxide-semi-conductor (“CMOS”) technology integrated into a CMOS camera train holder system that may be a stand-alone component for use with a visualization catheter, such as a baby endoscope, or may be fabricated/extruded as a part of the catheter itself. Some embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and equivalents thereto provide better direct visual feedback to the medical personnel performing the procedure while providing a similarly-sized outer diameter visualization catheter device having an increased space therein for additional lumens and equipment or by reducing the overall outer diameter of the visualization catheter.

A method and system for objectively scoring intra-operative pain during general anaesthesia based on the patient's mean arterial pressure and heart rate. The index is used for closed-loop control of the intra-operative analgesia through adjustment of the drug infusion level according to fuzzy logic. It is further displayed along with other components of anaesthesia and important patient data on a monitoring display for presentation to medical staff.

A medical alert message kit containing medical stamp emblems to be applied to the human body for the purpose of communicating a medical condition or directive. The medical stamp emblem is releasably attached to a backing liner and includes a printed medical condition, message or image on a surface of porous, non-woven, compacted tissue substrate with an adhesive. The method includes applying the emblem on an area of medical interest readily observable by medical personnel.

A medical checkup network system comprises a patient terminal for measuring the biodata of each patient including a blood pressure and a body temperature, a doctor terminal for allowing the medical staff to view the biodata of each patient for diagnosis and enter a medical support data including a schedule data and an advice data, and a center server for storing the data received from the those terminals. They are connected to each other over a communication network such as the Internet. In the system, the biodata of each patient stored in the center server can be registered and viewed by any of the patient terminal, the doctor terminal, the patient and the medical staff which have been registered in the center server. The system can thus protect the privacy of each patient about the biodata and permit the biodata of each patient to be shared by two or more members of the medical staff.

The invention provides a method as well as a device for the monitoring of body temperature, respiration, heart sound, swallowing, and offering medical inquiries. It comprises a sensor, a monitoring device, and medical devices. Installing proper sensors on the user's body and making the users wear necessary medical devices. The sensors attached to the user's body will be sensing the physical conditions and send the data collected to the monitoring device for security and protection. It can also allow the user or the medical personnel conduct two-way inquiries or treatment through displaying device, or the monitoring device can control the medical devices and assist the treatment. Furthermore, the data can be transferred to the medical system in the distant end and the user's data and be updated immediately and reduce errors happened in keying in the data. Doctors will be able to proceed with medical treatment according to the data and prevent abrupt accidents in patients as well as further protecting the security of the user.

The invention is applicable to the field of medical devices and discloses a catheter push control method and a catheter push device for a vascular interventional surgical robot. The catheter push control method includes a force measuring step and a regulating step. The regulating step is a step of setting a controller for regulating motion parameters during the catheter pushing process to prevent the blood vessel from being punctured during the catheter pushing process. The force measuring step comprises: providing a pressure sensor on a friction block assembly for clamping and rotating a catheter to twisting the catheter for detecting the pressure of the friction block assembly against the catheter; and providing a torque sensor for a catheter to pass through on a support base to detect the torque of the catheter. Through indirect measurement method, the method can measure the resistance applied to the head of the catheter and the torque of the catheter at the same time to effectively control the movement of the catheter. As the method allows doctors to operate and control remotely, the method reduces harm of surgeries to medical staff and patients.

Various systems and methods are provided for monitoring patient physiological data without the need for adhesives or wires to be connected to a patient. The system is also fully functional without the need for manipulation or intervention by a care provider or medical personnel. In particular, the system can include a pad having a plurality of electrical contacts or electrodes formed thereon in a predetermined pattern. The electrodes can be configured to sense electrical signals produced by a patient's body. A controller in communication with the electrodes can be configured to select and process signals from the electrodes and send the information derived from the electrical signals to an output device for displaying resulting physiological data so that the patient can be monitored.