903 results about "Patient need" patented technology

A portable emergency medical monitoring and transmission system capable of sending a message to a personal caretaker and / or an emergency response center. The system includes a wearable monitor / transmitter device including a glucose level detector, a geolocation system, and a communication interface to send and / or receive a message. A processor operable within the device collects information produced by the glucose level detector and the geolocation system to determine whereabouts and existence of a hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic condition of the patient. Upon detecting an unsafe medication condition, the processor assembles a message that includes patient identifier data, whereabouts of said patient, and an emergency alert indication; and activates a transmitter to transmit an emergency message in response to a hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic condition. An optional caretaker receiver receives the message and produces a local alarm indicating that the patient requires assistance. A transmission path of the transmitter conveys, in response to an emergency alert indication, the emergency message to an emergency response center indicating that the patient needs help.

A system and method are provided for automatically developing and implementing, a comprehensive customized care plan for a patient, to address all of the patient medical and non-medical (e.g., social, quality-of-life, personal) needs, utilizing a wide variety of information: both gathered both personally from a patient by a medical professional and also collected automatically by one or more telemedicine systems. The system and method of the present invention also continually re-assess and dynamically modify the comprehensive care plan, and additionally enable a wide variety of services and benefits to be made available to the patients in a manner automatically customized for their specific needs, with the offered services and benefits being dynamically adjusted as the patient needs change or evolve. In addition, the inventive system provides platform-independent capabilities so that diagnostic systems and devices from various vendors may be freely mixed to provide patients with customized diagnostic monitoring at the lowest possible cost.

A system, electronic monitor and method are provided that utilize impulse radio technology to alert medical personnel when a patient needs medical assistance. In addition, the present invention includes a system, electronic monitor and method that utilize the communication capabilities and positioning capabilities of impulse radio technology to enable medical personnel to monitor one or more vitals signs of a patient and / or to enable medical personnel to determine a current a position of a patient in a building such as a hospital, nursing home or their home.

A hypodermic syringe and a plurality of single use cartridges able to be successively loaded into said syringe for providing rapid dispensing of a medicant to numerous users without possibility of contamination. The cartridges are continuously fed through the syringe for the quick and efficient inoculation of patients. An operator inserts a needle into a patient by pushing in a trigger. Prior to the needle being inserted into the patient, a disinfectant is dispersed from the cartridge to maintain sterility. An operator then pushes in a plunger forcing the medication through the needle into the patient. The plunger is pulled back into its original location after use. The needle is pulled back with the plunger out of the patient's skin and back into the cartridge. A new cartridge on a clip is then advanced into the syringe for use in inoculating the next patient needing medication. The syringe and cartridge dispenser further maintains a sterile environment during successive vaccinations reducing the transmission of any disease from patient to patient.

A system and related techniques automatically generate optimized, best-match or sufficient assignments of care providers, such as physicians, nurses or technicians, to a patient based on clinical evidence, documentation, workload, infectious status and other factors. In embodiments, the patient's chart or other clinical record may be accessed by a rules-based engine configured with rules which relate a patient's clinical status and needs to the qualifications, certifications, capabilities and skills of care providers and select the care provider best qualified to service that patient's clinical requirements. The pool of available care providers may for example be ascertained from personnel systems recording staff schedules and estimated workload, while the qualifications of each provider indicating the categories of patient care and support that provider is qualified to provide may be accessed from a provider data store. For instance, nurses or technicians trained or certified in acute, emergency or surgical care may be identified for assignment to high acuity patients, or those presenting special or advanced care demands. According to the invention in a further regard, the provider's potential infectious exposure to other patients or from other sources may be screened to prevent that provider from being assigned to immune-compromised or other patients. Embodiments of the invention may present floor managers with a graphical display of available providers and generated assignments, which in embodiments the manager may override at their clinical discretion. Because patient needs are automatically aligned with provider capabilities, availability and other factors, the errors, oversights and inefficiencies of manual or informal assignment systems are avoided and better health care delivery can be realized.

A ventilator that delivers air at different pressures to a patient during inspiratory and expiratory cycles of breathing and that cycles from inspiratory to expiratory operation when the patient's respiratory flow passes a threshold level. The threshold generally increases from the beginning of inspiration to the end of inspiration. The increase can be linear over all or only a portion of the inspiratory cycle, and the threshold can be adjusted so that cycling is prevented during the initial portion of an inspiratory cycle. The minimum and maximum levels may both be functions of peak flow and the threshold may increase as a function of elapsed inspiratory time. The rate at which the threshold increases from a minimum level to a maximum level may be adjustable for individual patient needs and may be determined from previous breaths.

An urethral drain having deep external drainage channels, a low-profiled bladder retention segment, and a reversibly detachable collection segment, facilitates the draining of urine and fluids from the bladder. The low-profiled retention means minimizes bladder irritations and the deep external channels reduce the occurrence of infections. Incorporation of a reduced diameter smooth segment on the catheter, proximate the location of the external urethral sphincter allows the patient to void normally and at will. Modifying the size of this smooth segment aids the function of a defective sphincter in controlling urine leakage. The drain can be worn concealed within the urethra. Flushing action from normal voiding washes out particulate matters in the urethra and the concealed drain further minimizes contamination. Together, these features improve quality of life for patients needing catheterization.

According to a preferred embodiment, there is provided an electronic patient monitor for use in reducing the risk of decubitus ulcers. The monitor utilizes a separate sensor which senses the position of the patient in the bed or chair for purposes of determining when the patient moves. Additionally, the monitor broadcasts masking noise through its own, or through a remote, speaker, thereby enabling the patient to rest more comfortably in a noisy institutional environment. If the patient does not move on his or her own accord within a predetermined turn interval, the masking sound broadcast will be terminated which will gently encourage the patient to move. An alarm may additionally be sounded to notify the caregiver that the patient needs to be manually turned to reduce the risk of decubitus ulcers.

Patients needing NO donor therapy or inhibition of pathologically proliferating cells or increased NO bioactivity are treated with a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase.

The invention discloses an artificial intelligence auxiliary diagnosis and treatment system and a construction method thereof, equipment and a storage medium and belongs to the technical field of lifehealth. The system includes a disease knowledge map module, a disease diagnosis model module and a machine learning decision module, wherein the disease knowledge map module is configured to collectvarious resources about diseases and form a disease knowledge database for querying and reading, the disease diagnosis model module is configured to receive the patient information, store the information in the system database, input the information to the machine learning decision module, extract indicator data from the disease knowledge map module through the machine learning decision module toperform comparative analysis, push a patient information set and suggest an examination which a patient needs to take and a scheme set of related drug treatment for choose of doctors. The system is advantaged in that the underlying knowledge map is comprehensive and authoritative, interaction operation is simple, use efficiency is high, on the human-computer interaction level, the intelligence degree is high.

A system and method for managing a health clinic, and in particular to managing / scheduling employees to work in the clinic. The system and method relates to a computer program for computing the needs of patients, determining adequate staffing requirements and displays these needs and requirements in connection with actual scheduling values. Thus, the system provides a tool for quickly determining whether the clinic is overstaffed or understaffed, for the entire day based on patient needs, both direct and indirect patient care needs. The system and method may further use facility limitation information to provide overall efficiency information.

A dynamic stabilization, motion preservation spinal implant system includes an anchor system, a horizontal rod system and a vertical rod system. The systems are modular so that various constructs and configurations can be created and customized to a patient.

A breathing assistance device is provides guidance to the rescuer, guidance to the victim, and modifies treatment parameters automatically based upon feedback loops relating to patient needs. Guidance can include pictograms showing cartoons of lung expansion, airway patency, breathing rate, and depth of breathing. A microprocessor preferably produces the pictorial guidance as a function of at least one of estimated end tidal CO2, estimated fractional inspired oxygen, estimated fractional expired oxygen, estimated airway resistance, and estimated lung compliance. The microprocessor can also execute a software code that executes a feedback loop that attempts to normalize values of a parameter over time, by controlling at least one pressure in a neck pillow, mask pressure, breathing rate, breathing volume, inspiration time, and expiration time. Contemplated parameters can include estimated end tidal CO2, estimated fractional inspired oxygen, estimated fractional expired oxygen, estimated airway resistance, and estimated lung compliance.

There is provided herein a sensor for use in connection with an electronic patient monitor, wherein the sensor preferably uses a linearly configured resistive ladder with spaced-apart resistors as a means of determining at least approximately a location of the patient on the sensor as well as an approximate length of the sensor which is compressed by the patient. By continuously determining both of these quantities over time it is possible to track the patient's movement and determine to what extent the patient needs to be manually turned and / or the extent to which a next-scheduled turn can be skipped.

An operating table has first bed platforms, each which can rotate. In an operating configuration, the patient lies on one of the bed platforms in a prone or supine position with the bed platform centered over the base. When the patient needs to be turned, the other table extends outwardly, and both tables are rotated to position the patient for turning. Once the patient is turned, the table on which the patient lies is returned to its operating position over the base and the other table is returned to its storage position.

A remote mobile medical communication apparatus is suitable for use in communicating with a remote terminal for monitoring and treating a patient. The apparatus comprises a communicating unit, for transmitting a local communication information to the remote terminal, and receiving a remote communication information from the remote terminal. A patient-monitor interface unit receives at least one patient vital-sign signal from the patient, and then transmits to the remote terminal via the communicating unit. A bi-directional audio / video communication unit is for communicating with the remote terminal with an audio / video information via the communicating unit. An instruction from the remote terminal is instructed if the patient needs a treatment. A system and method use the function of the remote mobile medical communication apparatus.

An operating table has first bed platforms, each which can rotate. In an operating configuration, the patient lies on one of the bed platforms in a prone or supine position with the bed platform centered over the base. When the patient needs to be turned, the other table extends outwardly, and both tables are rotated to position the patient for turning. Once the patient is turned, the table on which the patient lies is returned to its operating position over the base and the other table is returned to its storage position.

The present invention relates to a system, device and a method for communicating medical information using a mobile telephone with a digital camera. A technical solution for safe, secure, convenient and rapid diagnostic service in Tele-Medicine has been developed. The invention uses digital images as a medium for diagnostics in health care transmitted by a mobile telephone using Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The invention relates particularly to the fields of medicine, where a health worker can from an image give a diagnosis, treatment recommendations, recommendation for further analysis, triage or if the patient needs to see a health worker face to face.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, and relates to a rehabilitation training system, in particular to an upper limb rehabilitation training system with active-passive modes. The technical scheme includes that the upper limb rehabilitation training system with the active-passive modes comprises a handle, a mechanical arm, a spindle, an encoder, a computer, a display, a motor, a clutch, a coupler, a belt pulley, a belt pulley shaft, a synchronous toothed belt and a rehabilitation device base. Compared with equipment in the past, the upper limb rehabilitation training system has the advantages that active acting force is provided for a patient needing rehabilitation, the mechanical arm can drive an arm of the patient to perform rehabilitation training in the active mode so as to achieve better rehabilitation training effects, and a threshold safety module is arranged inside the computer so that safety of the patient in rehabilitation training can be enhanced.

The invention discloses an electroencephalograph-based anesthesia depth monitoring method. The electroencephalograph-based anesthesia depth monitoring method comprises the following steps of (11) collecting electroencephalograph signals of a patient during the whole operation process for the patient needing an operation with anesthesia, and calibrating the state of anesthesia in time intervals according to actual requirement; (12) removing artifacts and noise in the electroencephalograph signals for the collected electroencephalograph signals; (13) calculating frequency domain index, complexity and burst suppression index for the interference-free electroencephalograph signals obtained in the step (12); (14) according to index parameters in the step (13), dividing the signals into five types of sobriety, light anesthesia, medium anesthesia, deep anesthesia and ultra-deep anesthesia; (15) assigning the weights of the index parameters in the step (13), integrating the indexes into Ai index, and carrying out the judgment of anesthesia depth according to the Ai index, wherein the Ai index is equal to FORMULA, and indexi is an index parameter in the step (13), and wi is the weight of the index parameter. Different weight values are given according to varied obvious degree at different periods, so that the obtained Ai value is more reasonable.

The invention relates to a three-stage brain-controlled upper limb rehabilitation method combining steady-state visual evoked potential and mental imagery (MI). The method comprises the following steps: (1) the first stage of VR video guidance training: a patient is made to be familiar with upper limb rehabilitation movements through VR video guidance; (2) the second stage of VR-SSVEP training: the patient needs to concentrate to observe pictures that represent different upper limb movements and flicker with a specific frequency, EEG signals of the patient are collected in real-time to analyzeintentions of the patient, and visual feedback is provided to the patient through VR animation to make the patient learn to concentrate; and (3) the third stage of VR-MI training: EEG signals of theleft and right upper limbs of the patient during MI are collected during off-line training, and a mental imagery intention recognition model is established. The EEG signals of mental imagery of the patient are analyzed according to the model during online training, movement intentions of the patient are recognized, and movements of a 3D character in an interface are controlled in real time, so that brain central nerve remodeling is facilitated through MI. The method exhibits a good immersion property, enables active rehabilitation to be realized, enables rehabilitation to proceed step by step,and is a new method for upper limb rehabilitation of a cerebral stoke patient.

The invention discloses culturing, freezing and recovering methods of an activated lymphocyte with CD3+CD8+as major, which can solve problems that a patient needs carrying out blood sampling for many times caused by continuously utilizing the activated lymphocyte with CD3+CD8+as major. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) contacting the extracted lymphocyte of the peripheral blood with IL-2, IL-15, an anti-CD3 antibody and an anti-CD28 antibody, so as to amplify the activated lymphocyte with CD3+CD8+as major; (2) freezing and storing the activated lymphocyte; and (3) recovering the activated lymphocyte. The activated lymphocyte cultured via the method disclosed by the invention has clear components, and comprises few CD4+CD25+Treg cells and more CD8+T lymphocyte; feedback time and frequency of the activated lymphocyte can be adjusted according to other treatments for a patient, such as a radiotherapy or a chemotherapy, so that diseases, such as tumor, infectious diseases and immunodeficiency can be treated well.

An aspect of the present disclosure relates to an integrated digital health system that includes a smart dosage delivery device connected to a smart appliance and / or a cloud / server. The integrated digital health system primarily includes a smart dosage delivery device that can offer dosing and / or patient interactivity and can connect to a smart appliance and / or a cloud / server to transmit information pertaining to dosage and various health related parameters. The smart appliance and / or cloud / server can include a big data application that can offer analytics and visualization tools to gain insights into customer and patients needs and wants.

A system and method for managing a health clinic, and in particular to managing / scheduling employees to work in the clinic. The system and method relates to a computer program for computing the needs of patients, determining adequate staffing requirements and displays these needs and requirements in connection with actual scheduling values. Thus, the system provides a tool for quickly determining whether the clinic is overstaffed or understaffed, for the entire day based on patient needs, both direct and indirect patient care needs. The system and method may further use facility limitation information to provide overall efficiency information.

A multifunctional nursing chair bed relates to a nursing device for patients in hospitals and families and aims to resolve problems that the adjusting angle of a backrest of an existing sickbed is small, a patient cannot sit on the sickbed, the patient needs to be lifted up or sling so as to move to a wheelchair from the sickbed or to the sickbed from the wheelchair, labor intensity is high when the patient is lifted up, equipment investment is high when the patient slings, most of toilet stools matched with the existing sickbed and the existing wheelchair are basin-shaped and are fixed, the patient is easy to defecate or urinate outside the toilet stools, and an indoor environment is affected. The multifunctional nursing chair bed has the advantages that the patient can be easily shiftedto the chair bed from a sickbed or to the sickbed from the chair bed, so that nursing labor intensity is relieved. The patient can sit at optional angles. The patient can sleep reversely and the likeby means of adjusting the heights of three hydraulic cylinders, and recovery of the patient is facilitated. A liftable toilet stool can improve a nursing environment and the quality of indoor air. Accordingly, the multifunctional nursing chair bed is suitable for hospitals, recuperation and hospice care institutions and families with patients.

The invention relates to a tooth arrangement method for manufacturing complete dentures, and belongs to the technical field of manufacturing of dental prostheses. The tooth arrangement method for manufacturing the complete dentures comprises the steps that 1, a three-dimensional database of tooth characteristics of standard teeth is established; 2, oral cavity characteristic information of a patient is extracted; 3, tooth arrangement is conducted. According to the tooth arrangement method for manufacturing the complete dentures, a mutual constraint relationship between the oral cavity and artificial teeth is established, and therefore automatic tooth arrangement is achieved; dentitions according with the oral cavity characteristics of different patients are obtained, and the arranged dentitions can be appropriately adjusted according to patient needs so as to accord with the sex, age and the like of the patient; meanwhile, the diagnosis and treatment situations of the patient can be tracked and recorded, taking for use and updating can be achieved at any time, and the clinical needs of the complete dentures can be effectively met.

The invention discloses a sepsis early prediction method based on machine learning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, extracting clinical data, including demographic statistics (suchas age and gender), vital sign variables (such as heart rate and systolic pressure) and laboratory measurement indexes (such as creatinine and platelet count), of a patient within 24 hours after a patient enters an ICU by utilizing an electronic medical record, preprocessing the data, inputting the preprocessed data into an improved deep forest algorithm model for training, and outputting the disease probability of the patient after training optimization. And meanwhile, the algorithm model can also sort characteristic variables and output an early warning factor which has great influence on early prediction of sepsis. Finally, corresponding variables of the patient needing to be predicted are input into the trained model, so that early prediction of sepsis can be carried out on the patient. According to the invention, early prediction is carried out on sepsis based on a machine learning method, doctors can be assisted in making clinical decisions, and the prediction accuracy is improved.