52 results about "Neonatal intensive care unit" patented technology

Disclosed are concentrated, liquid, human milk fortifier compositions comprising from about 15% to about 45% by weight of protein, on a dry weight basis, and having a caloric density of from about 1.25 kcauml to about 6.0 kcau / ml, wherein the liquid human milk fortifier composition is added to human milk in a volume-volume ratio of from about 1:3 to about 1:9. These composition include embodiments comprising carbohydrate and fat, that are formulated with improved stability by selecting any one of the following variations: 1) certain whey-casein protein blends, 2) water insoluble calcium-containing materials, 3) protein hydrolysates, and 4) aseptically packaged concentrates. The liquid concentrates are especially useful for providing nutrition to preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units or similar other institutional setting, and to minimize the risk of introducing microbial contaminants such as Enterobacter sakazakii to infant feedings during preparation in such institutional settings.

What is disclosed is a video-based system and method for estimating heart rate variability from time-series signals generated from video images captured of a subject of interest being monitored for cardiac function. In a manner more fully disclosed herein, low frequency and high frequency components are extracted from a time-series signal obtained by processing a video of the subject being monitored. A ratio of the low and high frequency of the integrated power spectrum within these components is computed. Analysis of the dynamics of this ratio over time is used to estimate heart rate variability. The teachings hereof can be used in a continuous monitoring mode with a relatively high degree of measurement accuracy and find their uses in a variety of diverse applications such as, for instance, emergency rooms, cardiac intensive care units, neonatal intensive care units, and various telemedicine applications.

What is disclosed is a system and method for estimating minute ventilation by analyzing distortions in reflections of structured illumination patterns captured in a video of a thoracic region of a subject of interest being monitored for respiratory function. Measurement readings can be acquired in a few seconds under a diverse set of lighting conditions and provide a non-contact approach to patient respiratory function that is particularly useful for infant care in an intensive care unit (ICU), sleep studies, and can aid in the early detection of sudden deterioration of physiological conditions due to detectable changes in chest volume. The systems and methods disclosed herein provide an effective tool for non-contact minute ventilation estimation and respiratory function analysis.

A transferring and holding device and method for holding infants having lifelines, such as IV tubes, monitor wire leads, and ventilator tubes, connected thereto. In one embodiment, the device includes a support surface adapted to hold an infant; a boundary attached to and bolstering the support surface; and at least one securing mechanism adapted to secure the lifelines and to impede the lifelines from being disconnected from the infant. The support surface preferably has openings to enable skin-to-skin contact between the infant and a person holding the infant, and at least a portion of the support surface can be a nonabsorbent, open-weave webbed material. The boundary may include a foam member, and / or a flexible plastic or metal member to provide structural support. The boundary may be removable for separate washing of or replacement of the support surface, and the support surface may include sleeves for insertion of at least a portion of the boundary to facilitate removable attachment thereof.

A medical apparatus for assisting a person in skin-to-skin holding of an infant on the person's chest or stomach. The medical apparatus includes a garment having a chest portion with a midline opening extending from a neck opening. The garment is adapted to fit a wide range of different-sized persons by having adjustable-sized sides. Loop material for a hook-and-loop fastener is attached to outside surfaces of the garment. The loop material includes chest portions, stomach portions, shoulder portions, or combinations thereof. One or more straps are provided. Each strap includes hook material to form the hook-and-loop fastener(s) so that each strap may be removably attached to the loop material using the hook material to secure medical equipment to the garment while holding the infant within the garment and against the person. This medical equipment may include IV tubing, ventilator tubing, nasogastric tubing, or combinations thereof, extending from the infant.

An examination unit, which can be used especially in the area of acute and intensive diagnostics in hospitals (e.g. in emergency rooms, intensive care units, operating theaters etc.) or in ambulances is provided. The examination unit which at least has an ultrasonic device, patient monitor, ECG, ventilator and / or resuscitation device for monitoring the vital functions and / or for the immediate medical treatment of emergency patients with symptoms of acute cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, angina, apoplectic stroke, etc. The device furthermore according to the invention includes an integrated mini-laboratory analysis unit for the biochemical and / or cell-biology investigation of blood samples or tissue biopsies.

A system for monitoring the physiological conditions of a plurality of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The system includes a plurality of microenvironments, a plurality of environmental sensors to detect a first environmental condition in the microenvironments, and a plurality of external environmental sensors to detect a second environmental condition in the NICU. The system also includes a central processor that compares signals from the environmental sensors to signals from the external environmental sensors and determines a correlation between the first environmental condition and the second environmental condition. A method of monitoring the conditions of a plurality of infants is also disclosed.

The invention relates to the field of medical equipment, in particular to a clinical fixing apparatus for an intensive care unit. The clinical fixing apparatus comprises a fixed seat, a clamping control member, a clamping assembly and an angle adjusting plate, wherein the clinical fixing apparatus is adjusted to a horizontal state by virtue of the angle adjusting plate, so that limbs of a patientcan be horizontally fixed, an ankle joint, a knee joint, a wrist joint and an elbow joint of the patient can be fixed at different angles by adjusting the angle of the angle adjusting plate, and the rehabilitation of the patient can be well facilitated; and the clinical fixing apparatus can be suitable for the patient of different body types. The lower end of the clamping control member is connected to the middle end of the fixing seat by virtue of threads, the upper end of the clamping control member is fixedly connected to the upper end of the fixing seat, four clamping assemblies are provided, the four clamping assemblies are symmetrically connected to the front end and the rear end of the fixing seat in a sliding manner, the lower ends of the four clamping assemblies are respectively connected with the clamping control member, and the angle adjusting plate is connected to the left end of the fixing seat in a rotating manner.

The invention relates to a rapid emergency anesthesia machine for the ICU (intensive care unit) department and belongs to the technical field of medical instruments. The rapid emergency anesthesia machine comprises a body and an anesthesia unit; the front of the body is provided with an anesthesia unit storage box, a dust cover and a hydraulic height adjuster; the anesthesia unit storage box is internally provided with an anesthesia unit storage drawer; the front of the anesthesia unit storage drawer is provided with a rubber handle; two sides of the anesthesia unit storage drawer are provided with drawer slides; the dust cover is provided with an air outlet and a vent grille; the vent grille is provided with a vertical adjusting shaft and an adjusting connecting ring; an anti-shock fixing pad is arranged below the body. The rapid emergency anesthesia machine has complete functions, is convenient to use, is scientific, convenient, safe, efficient, intelligence and accurate to use in preoperative anesthesia for a patient to be subjected to the surgery in the ICU, with less time and labor consumed, and allows work to be easier for medical staff.

The invention relates to an intensive care and therapy unit, which is characterized by comprising a clean area, a buffer area and a polluted area which are separated by partitions and are formed by fresh air pressure gradient and air cleanliness. An outside corridor is arranged around the unit in the polluted area, and a clean passage is arranged in the clean area. The clean area is communicated with the buffer area through a buffer room, and the outside corridor and the entry end of the clean passage are respectively communicated with an elevator passage through a door. Each unit is respectively provided with a door being communicated with the outside corridor and a door being communicated with the buffer area. On architectural layout and gas flow directions, the unit ensures the unitarity of structural partitions and functional partitions of the three areas, therefore cross-infection among intensive care units (ICU) can be effectively avoided, and biological security is furthest provided for medical workers. The intensive care and therapy unit can be widely used in care for a variety of critically ill patients and particularly used in care for critically ill patients of a variety of respiratory systems.

A single disinfectable vinyl baby bouncer seat cover is made from health care use vinyl. The specifications of the health care vinyl permit surface disinfection using sodium hypochlorite (bleach) 1:10 diluted with water. A baby bouncer seat cover constructed from health care use vinyl allows disinfection in infection controlled environments using surface disinfectants containing sodium hypochlorite (bleach) 1:10 diluted with water. The disinfectable vinyl baby bouncer seat cover incorporates a seat belt restraint system and the design creates a central pocket that cradles an infant in a semi-reclined position. The design and health care use vinyl components incorporated in the invention, create a comfortable infant seat cover that maximizes disinfection within infection controlled environments. The disinfectable vinyl baby bouncer seat cover is placed over a baby bouncer frame, the baby bouncer frame is not inclusive in this invention. Environments such as hospital nurseries, neonatal intensive care units, pediatric intensive care units, pediatric units, large day care centers, and any other institutions that serve large numbers of infants may disinfect the seat covers after each use maintaining an environment of infection control.

The invention relates to an ICU (intensive care unit) auxiliary nursing system comprising a nursing server, a hospital bed terminal and a remote server. The nursing server is used for inputting patient nursing standards so as to form a nursing program, acquiring basic information, medicine information and doctor's advice information of a specified patient through interactive information with an HIS (hospital information system), and transmitting the information to the corresponding hospital bed terminal; the hospital bed terminal is connected with the nursing server through an intermediate terminal and used for executing the nursing program and recording the nursing process; the remote server is connected with the hospital bed terminal and used for knowing specific nursing status of the patient and changes of patient body information in time and regulating the patient nursing standards in time. Compared with the prior art, the ICU auxiliary nursing system has the advantages that real-time sharing of the patient information is realized, medical staff can make treatment schemes quickly in real time, working strength of ICU nursing staff is reduced, nursing quality is improved, and nursing level is heightened. Meanwhile, a traditional paper-and-pencil nursing record mode is replaced, paperless nursing recording is realized, and the system is more efficient and environment friendly.

The invention discloses a medicine feeder for a patient in an ICU (intensive care unit). The medicine feeder for the patient in the ICU comprises a connecting tube, wherein a water outlet valve is arranged on the surface of the connecting tube; the top end of the connecting tube communicates with a stirring box; a medicine inlet hole is formed in the surface of the stirring box; the right side ofthe top of the stirring box communicates with a water inlet tube; a valve is arranged on the surface of the water inlet tube; the top of the stirring box is fixedly connected with a motor; and the bottom end of a rotating shaft of the motor penetrates through the stirring box, extends to the inside of the stirring box and is fixedly connected with a rotating rod. By cooperative use of the connecting tube, the water outlet valve, the stirring box, the medicine inlet hole, the water inlet tube, the motor, the rotating rod and stirring blades, the medicine feeder for the patient in the ICU is convenient to use, when medicines are fed for the patient by using the medicine feeder, bedclothes and clothes cannot be wet, blocking caused by the reason of large medicine particles is avoided, the medicine feeder is simple to operate, the time and labor are saved, the working difficulty of medical staff is reduced, pain of the patient is relieved, and people use the medicine feeder favorably.

The present invention relates to a portable, self-contained, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) providing heating (or cooling) for the patient by controlled exchange of thermal energy between a transparent enclosure that houses the infant and an internal reservoir. The invention has no requirement for electrical power. The internal reservoir utilizes water that is heated (or cooled) by an external source. The micro-environment inside the transparent enclosure for the infant and the water inside the internal reservoir are thermally and acoustically isolated in order to minimize heat and sound exchange with the ambient environment.

The invention discloses a postoperative nursing drainage device for an intensive care unit. The device includes a clamping board, a sliding board, a connecting rod, a fixing plate, a placing sleeve, springs, a support board, a drainage bottle, a drainage tube, a drip pot, a metering valve, a liquid discharge tube, a liquid discharge valve and an air pump. The postoperative nursing drainage devicefor the intensive care unit is ingenious in structure, powerful in function and easy to operate. By using the device, not only can the situation that the device is blocked by drainage liquid can be avoided, but also medical staff can conveniently control the flow speed of the drainage liquid of a patient, and the treatment effect on the patient is ensured. Additionally, the device can also be stored into the bottom of a sickbed during use, the situation that the device is detached from a treated part of the patient when the limbs of the medical staff touch the device is avoided, and a protective effect is achieved on the patient.

Rapid evacuation of individuals from any building can be problematic. A hospital even more so as patient's often have the necessary motor skills but limited mobility. However, babies within neo-natal intensive care, infants and toddlers are particularly problematic as even under imminent danger they exhibit limited or no coordinated motor skills. In such situations an embodiment provides for evacuation devices for use by a single operator to move multiple infants or toddlers simultaneously both across a floor and down one or sets of stairs. Another embodiment provides for evacuation devices for moving intensive care neo-natal babies allowing the evacuation device to be moved by a single operator but allow another to be adjacent to the evacuation device to manually assist breathing both across the floor and within a stairwell as the evacuation device is taken down one or more sets of stairs.

The invention discloses an electroencephalogram centralized monitoring system for a neonatal intensive care unit. The system comprises an electroencephalogram acquisition device, a video acquisition device, a video storage device, a bedside monitoring device, a report output device, a video centralized storage device, a centralized monitoring server, a centralized monitoring device, a neonatal information database, an electroencephalogram data storage device, a communication device, a working terminal and a centralized display device. The system can acquire neonatal electroencephalogram signals in real time, analyze and process the signals, generate neonatal amplitude integration signals, filter out artifact signals, achieve automatic analysis, early warning, processing and report generation of sleep awakening, convulsion and outbreak inhibition, display the signals on the centralized display device of a doctor office or a nurse station in real time, give an alarm and remind a doctor, and make medical staff master the brain function state of a neonatal under intensive care in real time.

The invention provides a newborn intravenous nutrient solution and calorie calculator produced by virtue of Excel. A Microsoft Office Excel 2003 program is used for producing a newborn intravenous nutrient solution and calorie electronic calculation table, so that simplicity in operation is ensured; indexes such as the amount, sugar speed, calorie and concentration of each intravenous nutritional component can be automatically generated, so that the calculator is accurate and high in speed, and can be popularized for use in an NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit), and time can be saved; in addition, the calculator is easy and convenient to clinically use, and results can be automatically generated in yellow grids only by inputting the target amount of each intravenous nutritional component into green grids, so that compared with manual calculation, the calculator is time-saving, labor-saving, accurate and high in speed.

The invention provides a special transfer trolley for an ICU (intensive care unit) patient and effectively solves the technical problems that existing transfer trolleys are single in structure and cannot accommodate some medical devices required during transfer. The special transfer trolley comprises an upper bed frame, a fence, a push handle, a lower bed frame, lifting supports and universal wheels and is characterized in that an L-shaped sliding frame is glidingly connected to the lower bed frame and is formed by integrally connecting a horizontal sliding frame and a vertical sliding frame, the horizontal sliding frame is glidingly connected to the lower bed frame, the vertical sliding frame is arranged on the outer side of the lower bed frame, a horizontal driving device is mounted on the horizontal sliding frame, a lifting driving device is mounted on the vertical sliding frame, an accommodating cavity is formed in the horizontal sliding frame and can move from the right end of the horizontal sliding frame to the left end and is automatically lifted to the top end from the lower end of the vertical sliding frame, and the accommodating cavity can recover to the original position of the horizontal sliding frame from the vertical sliding frame. The accommodating cavity is used for accommodating an oxygen tank, a respirator, a monitoring device, medical drugs and other articles and facilitates use during transfer by the ICU transfer trolley.

The invention discloses an ICU (intensive care unit) nursing compression tourniquet which comprises an air bag. An elastic fabric is fixedly arranged on the air bag in a sleeving manner, a soft rubberpipe is fixedly connected on one side of the air bag, one end, far away from the air bag, of the soft rubber pipe penetrates the elastic fabric and is fixedly connected with an inflatable balloon, the soft rubber pipe is connected with the air bag and the inflatable balloon, a hollow pipe is fixedly connected at the top of the air bag, one end, far away from the air bag, of the hollow pipe is fixedly connected with a pressure meter, the hollow pipe is communicated with the air bag and the pressure meter, and one end of the elastic fabric is fixedly connected with a first connecting block. Thetourniquet is simple in structure and convenient to operate, the air bag and the elastic fabric can be rapidly fixed onto an arm or a thigh, the air bag is inflated and pressured by the inflatable balloon, so that bleeding is stopped, force is uniformly applied onto the arm or thigh, limb numbness or large area of extravasated blood or small loose caused by excessive stress in compression and hemostasis cannot be easily generated, and the tourniquet is conveniently and rapidly disassembled.

An improvement in the apparatus to secure a nasal cannula used with continuous positive airway pressure machines used with infants in neonatal intensive care units. A soft knit hat with slots is used to secure air hoses feeding the cannula. Elastic straps thread through the slots to secure the hoses to the infant's head. A chin strap is used to hold the baby's mouth closed to prevent air leakage while the cannula is in use. The hat also includes a set of horizontal slots in the center of the hat to attach a required eye shield. The device allows the infant to sleep on one side without hoses and tubes getting in the way. It also allows a parent to hold the child comfortably. Hoses can be secured to a chair or bed with a hose strap.

The invention discloses a medicine feeding device for ICU (intensive care unit) nursing. The medicine feeding device comprises a medicine dissolving bottle and a transfer device, a groove is formed in the top end of the medicine dissolving bottle, a bottle cap is rotatably connected in the groove, a liquid injection pipe and a liquid outgoing pipe are arranged on the bottle cap, the liquid outgoing pipe is connected with the transfer device through a pipeline, the transfer device is connected with a leak prevention device through a pipeline, and a motor is arranged at the surface of the bottle cap. By setting water temperature in a PLC (programmable logic controller), the PLC is enabled to control an electric heating pipe, so that convenience is brought to controlling the water temperature during medicine feeding; water and medicine are stirred through a stirring frame, so that the medicine can be fully dissolved in the water for the convenience of a patient to absorb; a retaining plate is put between the hip and teeth of the patient for feeding medicine to the patient, so that medicine liquid can be prevented from flowing out from corners of the mouth of the patient. The medicine feeding device is simple to operate, time-saving, labor-saving and convenient for medical staff and family members of the patient to use.

The invention provides a special nursing cart for an intensive care unit. The special nursing cart comprises a sealing mechanism, a pushing-pulling mechanism, fixed rods, a base plate and moving wheels, wherein the fixed rods are fixed at four corners of the lower end surface of the sealing mechanism and are respectively fixedly connected with the four corners of the upper end surface of the baseplate through bolts, the pushing-pulling mechanism is connected to the upper end of the base plate in a sliding way, and the moving wheels are respectively connected to four corners of the lower end surface of the base plate through bolts; the sealing mechanism comprises a cover plate, a Chinese character ''hui''-shaped rubber strip, a Chinese character ''hui''-shaped support plate, a containing slot plate, a step slot, a handle rod, a screw hole, a fastening bolt, an L-shaped guiding rod, a guide hole, a U-shaped clamping plate, opening slots and connecting rods; and the pushing-pulling mechanism comprises a baffle, a sliding strip, a sliding plate, a positioning slot, a collection tank, a U-shaped frame, a supporting strip block, a through hole and a double faced adhesive plaster. Compared with the prior art, the special nursing cart has the beneficial effect that the sealing function is realized, and the opening and closing of a garbage bag hole are controlled.

An infant, joint compression device and methods of use including decreasing the length of stay in a neonatal intensive care unit and / or increasing bone density of a premature infant are disclosed. A device can include an elongated, generally cocoon-shaped device pod having a head pod end, a foot pod end and a pod interior extending between the head pod end and the foot pod end; a head opening at the head pod end and communicating with the pod interior; and a pod slit extending from the head opening toward the foot pod end and communicating with the pod interior.

The invention discloses a multifunctional nursing pillow for an intensive care unit. According to a key point of the technical scheme, the multifunctional nursing pillow comprises a pillow case, wherein an airbag is installed in the pillow case, the airbag is communicated with an inflating pipe and an air outlet pipe, the inflating pipe is provided with an air one-way valve, the end part of the inflating pipe is also connected with an air nozzle in a threading manner, the air nozzle is provided with a conical part which is conveniently connected with a refilling pipe of an air pump, a conicalsurface of the conical part is provided with a plurality of limiting parts limiting the air nozzle from dropping off the refilling pipe, the end part of the air outlet pipe is locked in a sealing manner by virtue of a locking part, the head of a patient sleeps on the airbag, the patient is more comfortable when sleeping on the airbag, the pressure sores can be prevented, when the airbag is inflated, the air nozzle is inserted into the refilling pipe on the air pump, the air pump is arranged in a cloth band, the conical part of the air nozzle enables the air nozzle to be conveniently inserted,the limiting part on the air nozzle prevents the air nozzle from dropping off when in inflation, and the inflation is convenient.