35 results about "Physical trauma" patented technology

Apparatus and methods for animal control and restraint. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a retractable tether (e.g., leash) having a single-handed grip handle which include a built-in chemical repellent. The handle further includes a mechanism for quickly dispensing chemical repellent directionally by initiating a safety and actuating a trigger mechanism. The repellant can be used to rapidly spray one or more animals (such as during a dogfight) so as to minimize physical trauma to the dogs, and emotional trauma to the owner(s). Also, the handle is optionally equipped with a built in light for effective use of the handle (and repellant) in the dark, as well as a retractable mechanism to manage the dispensing and storage of a leash that can be attached to an animal collar.

A wearable accoutrement such as a wristwatch records noises within a wearer's vicinity, and white noises may be filtered out to output pure human voices. The voice recording feature can be activated manually or automatically during a “panic mode” as indicated by a loud noise or sudden biological changes such as an increase in heart rate or body temperature. The accoutrement can also monitor other environmental elements such as light, motion and audio and may be paired with a wireless phone such that noise from a stressful event can be sent to a remote server which processes the data. A motion sensor in the accoutrement may also activate an audible alarm in the event of physical trauma to the wearer to induce an attacker to flee.

A surrogate for testing an effect of physical trauma on a whole or portion of a natural biological animal body where the surrogate has a surrogate bone or bones and material replicating the effect of flesh around such a bone or bones. Also disclosed are further parts of a natural body which are replicated with surrogate materials in a surrogate construction including skin, tendons, arteries, and joints between bones as well as sensors for measuring the effect of any trauma caused.

Protective suits are used to protect the wearer against hazardous materials such as particulates, liquids, chemicals, pathogens, radiation, electromagnetism, physical trauma, heat and for rain protection. They are used to protect the wearer's surrounding in cleanrooms. Medical protective suits are used to prevent the spread of pathogens from the wearer. Unfortunately, they can cause heat stress by reducing air circulation. This invention discloses a protective suit with bellows and dual one-way valves operated by the normal movement of the wearer to draw air through the suit's interior to cool the wearer and provide breathable air. Filters can be placed in the bellows and suit's air vents, or the suit can be made of a filter material to protect the wearer and the surroundings. The disclosed suit is lighter, less expensive and more mobile than prior-art protective ventilated suits that use powered or externally supplied ventilation and cooling devices. It does not depend on limited life portable power sources for ventilation. Filtered air, supplied by the bellows, can be used for breathing, eliminating the need for a separate source of air.

A device and control software and system capable of accepting patient vital sign readings from an oximeter and applying a predetermined decision algorithm that incorporates unique combinations of vital signs and will allow the care giver to continuously monitor and have continuous feedback regarding certain patient vital functions, body trauma status, and immediate treatment needs, such as the patient's likelihood of the onset of shock and the advisability of introducing blood or blood products to the patient.

Protective suits are used to protect the wearer against hazardous materials such as chemicals, pathogens, radioactive particles, electromagnetism, physical trauma and for rain protection. They are used to protect the wearer's surrounding in cleanrooms. Medical protective suits are used to prevent the spread of pathogens from the wearer. Unfortunately, they can cause heat stress by reducing air circulation. This invention discloses a protective suit with a breathing mask and dual one-way valves to draw air through the suit's interior using the forces generated by the wearer's breathing. Filters can be placed in the suit, or the suit can be made of a filter material to protect the wearer and the surroundings. The disclosed suit is lighter, less expensive to produce and more mobile than prior-art protective suit designs that use powered or externally supplied ventilation and cooling devices.

Protective suits are used to protect the wearer against hazardous materials such as particulates, liquids, chemicals, pathogens, radiation, electromagnetism, physical trauma, heat and for rain protection. They are used to protect the wearer's surrounding in cleanrooms. Medical protective suits are used to prevent the spread of pathogens from the wearer. Unfortunately, they can cause heat stress by reducing air circulation. This invention discloses a protective suit with bellows and dual one-way valves operated by the normal movement of the wearer to draw air through the suit's interior. Filters can be placed in the suit, or the suit can be made of a filter material to protect the wearer and the surroundings. The disclosed suit is lighter, less expensive to produce and more mobile than prior-art protective suit designs that use powered or externally supplied ventilation and cooling devices.

The invention relates to a sex development regulation and control technology for the male Chinese mitten crab, in particular to a sex reversal siRNA of the Chinese mitten crab and application of the siRNA. A nucleotide sequence of a positive-sense strand of the sex reversal siRNA of the male Chinese mitten crab is shown in SEQ ID NO.1, and a nucleotide sequence of an antisense strand is shown in SEQ ID NO.2. according to the sex reversal siRNA, an IAG gene segment of the Chinese mitten crab is screened from an androgenic gland transcriptome of the Chinese mitten crab, the total-length cDNA sequence of the segment is cloned, according to an IAG gene sequence of the Chinese mitten crab, the siRNA is designed, synthesized and guided into a body of the Chinese mitten crab in the sex differentiation period, expression of an IAG gene in an androgenic gland cell is disturbed, and sex reversal of the male crab is achieved. Compared with androgenic gland removal through surgery, a micro-injection method is adopted and has the advantages that the trauma to the body of the Chinese mitten crab is small, and the situation is avoided that due to wound infection after surgery, the Chinese mittencrab dies; the injection dose is extremely low, the immunological stress reaction of a tested animal is not easily triggered, and accordingly the success rate of sex reversal is increased.

A method of treating or preventing a subject's health problem that is related to an underlying disorder in the functioning of the metabolic system of the subject includes the step of administering a therapeutically effective dosage of glycine. For health problems associated with the subject's bones, cartilage or connective tissue, including degenerative diseases such as arthrosis and arthritis, injuries due to physical trauma, the condition of one's skin, teeth, gums, finger nails, eyes, ears, vocal chords or muscles, or diseases such as osteoporosis, asthma, multiple sclerosis or atherosclerosis, the administering step involves daily ingesting glycine at a rate in the range of 0.1 to 0.7 g/Kg of the subject's body weight.

Massaging and compressing the lungs of a patient has been proven effective in loosening mucus buildup. Devices and methods for this purpose have been designed for patients older than infants and toddlers. A method for massaging and compressing the lungs of infants and toddlers has been developed using a device similar to those used for older patients. Such devices use pulsating air to inflate and deflate bladders that are in contact with the patient and apply pressure only to the upper torso of the patient. For older patients, the devices are typically made into a vest and fitted on the patient. For infants and toddlers the device, herein called a J-blanket™, having the same bladder arrangement, is spread flat on a suitable surface and the patient placed on the J-blanket. This reduces the physical trauma to these very young patients. The J-blanket can be fitted with sensors to provide important feedback related to the patient's well-being. The same method can be applied to patients of any age that might experience too great a physical trauma when treated in the conventional fashion.

A device that shields internal organs and tissues from medical procedures performed within a patient's body, especially in the chest cavity where ablation and related procedures are performed in or near the heart, includes a catheter body, a distal section, and a barrier member that can be inflated with fluid to act as a barrier to extreme temperatures and physical trauma, and be deflated to a smaller size to facilitate entry and removal from the patient's chest cavity. In a more detailed embodiment, the barrier member is a balloon that can protects the esophagus, which can be provided with folds and shape memory elements so that the balloon expands and collapses into predetermined configurations. Fluid is fed to and drawn from the barrier member via an irrigation tubing that extends along a catheter shaft and is in communication with a lumen of a deflectable tubing section that extends through an interior cavity of the barrier member. The catheter can be adapted for uni- or bi-directional deflection.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic component and peripheral nerve stimulator based apparatus and method for detecting motor nerve feedback. The device is characterized in that a peripheral nerve stimulator and an ultrasonic sensor are combined with each other, feedback of muscles on surrounding weak current stimulation or deeper stimulation can be monitored timely, effectively and accurately, and no physical trauma is caused to the body; meanwhile, the device is widely applicable to the field of rehabilitation therapy. With the method, motor nerve properties of a monitoring object can be non-invasively and accurately monitored and evaluated in real time.

The invention belongs to the technical field of human face skin drugs and particularly relates to an ointment for treating scars and acne. The ointment is prepared from, by weight, 5-10 parts of cold-pressed linseed oil, 3-5 parts of spreading hedyotis herb extraction liquid, 5-10 parts of C18 fatty alcohol, 3-5 parts of stearic acid, 2-5 parts of glycerin, 5-10 parts of aloe extract liquid and 5-8 parts of deionized water. The ointment is natural, non-irritant, harmless to face skin cells and capable of moisturizing, inhibiting bacteria, treating the acne and repairing physical trauma to a certain degree.

The present invention relates to a method for predicting the development of renal dysfunction in a subject following physical trauma, hypotension, sepsis and/or septic shock syndrome, wherein said method comprises the steps of: a. Levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines present in samples taken from the subject after trauma, after a hypotensive event, after sepsis, and/or after septic shock syndrome; b. based on the anti-inflammatory cytokines determined in step a) Said level of a factor predicts the development of renal dysfunction in said subject.

Oral cavity wound healing occurs in an environment that sustains ongoing physical trauma and is rich in bacteria. Patients undergoing cleft palate repair have a high degree of wound healing complications, such as oronasal fistula (ONF) formation. Following hard palate injury, ONF was created that demonstrated little change in pro-regenerative monocytes LY6C^lo monocytes; however, there were increased M2 macrophages observed. Delivery of FTY720 nanofiber scaffolds following hard palate injury prevented ONF formation, allowed complete wound healing and was associated with increased LY6C^lo monocytes and pro-regenerative M2 macrophages. Evaluation of interleukin gene expression revealed reduction in pro-inflammatory IL1 and IL6 and increased expression of pro-regenerative IL10 with FTY720 nanofiber delivery. The ability of FTY720 scaffolds to increase LY6C^lo monocytes, increase M2 macrophages and alter the interleukin expression during hard palate mucosal healing demonstrates the ability of a FTY720-based autotherapy to improve oral cavity wound healing.

The invention discloses an analgesia apparatus for critical patients. Patients in terminal stages of cancer or critical patients have sharp pain locally or generally, and many patients desire to die quickly rather than endure hardships. Family members are reluctant to see that the patients screech painfully, so that the patients take various analgesics or even buy imported analgesics with large sum of money, and some patients even use dolantin and opium as analgesics. Most analgesics cause greater damage to the patients. The analgesia apparatus for critical patients consists of four parts, i.e. a pulse generator, a pulse width setter, a strength adjustor and a power amplifier. The analgesia apparatus blocks nerves and dredges main and collateral channels through peak pulse by means of a principle of acupuncture anesthesia in traditional Chinese medicine, so that the analgesia apparatus can not only relieve pain, but also eliminate blood stasis and focus in the body. Therefore, the patients can sleep and eat, so that the apparatus is remarkable in effect and free from side effects. The produced analgesia apparatus for critical patients can soothe mental and physical trauma of the patients and the family members so as to promote harmonious society.

The invention relates to a medical device, in particular to an adjustable anal surgery platform. The adjustable anal surgery platform includes an anoscope body and an inner core, the inner core is placed in the anoscope body, and the anoscope body includes an anterior section, an extended section, and an anal section, wherein the anterior section, the extended section, and the anal section are arranged in order from front to back; a control knob is arranged at the tail end of the anal section; the diameter of the extended section is adjustable, compared with the prior art, the anal surgery platform is easy to adjust, the size of an anoscope can be adjusted according to the size of an actual lesion, thus the difficulty of operation is greatly reduced, the success rate of surgery is increased, in addition, an enteric cavity does not need to be inflated with air when the anal surgery platform is in use, the pain of a patient is alleviated, the surgery field of a healer is also stabilized,the success rate of surgery is further increased, the anal surgery platform is suitable for minimally invasive surgery for different patients, an open surgery or laparoscopic surgery is not needed, the physical trauma of the patient is reduced, and the adjustable anal surgery platform is worthy of clinical promotion.

One aspect of the present invention is concerned with a method of treating or preventing pulmonary inflammation as a complication ensuing from physical trauma, bacteraemia or viral inflection, said method comprising enterally administering at least one or more glutathione promoters selected from: -0.3-20 g, preferably 0.5-5 g pyruvate equivalents; -0.1-5 g, preferably 0.2-2 g oxaloacetate equivalents; -0.01-1 g, preferably 0.02-0.5 g lipoic acid equivalents; and at least 20 g of digestible water soluble carbohydrates, in the form of an aqueous liquid composition containing at least 10 g/l of said digestible water soluble carbohydrates. Another aspect of the invention relates to an aqueous liquid composition suitable for enteral administration containing: 2 to 20 wt. % digestible dissolved carbohydrates; two or more glutathione promoters selected from: 0.5 to 50 g/l pyruvate equivalents; 0.05 to 20 g/l oxaloacetate equivalents; 0.05 to 5 g/l cystein equivalents; and at least 45 wt % water.