560 results about "Sick person" patented technology

For Parkinson's patients to function at their best, their medications need to be optimally adjusted to the diurnal variation of symptoms. For this to occur, it is important for the managing clinician to have an accurate picture of how the patient's bradykinesia / hypokinesia and dyskinesia and the patient's perception of movement state fluctuate throughout the normal daily activities. The present invention uses wearable accelerometers coupled with computer implemented learning and statistical analysis techniques in order to classify the movement states of Parkinson's patients and to provide a timeline of how the patients fluctuate throughout the day.

A method for remotely measuring body temperature of persons and for watching the persons, includes attaching one or more temperature measuring devices to one or more persons or patients, to detect body temperatures or locations or identifications of the persons or patients. The information detected by the temperature measuring devices may be sent to a monitoring device via a blue tooth receiver device, to receive and monitor and watch the changing of the body temperature or locations or identifications of the persons or patients wirelessly or remotely, without going to see and to contact with the persons or patients.

The disclosed invention is a patient monitoring system that employs a pressure sensitive pad. The pad is placed beneath a patient who is lying in bed or sitting in a chair. When weight is removed from the pad, an alarm is given. The pad comprises an upper layer of circuitry and a lower layer of circuitry. When the respective layers of circuitry are in contact, the alarm remains off, but when the layers of circuitry become separated, the alarm is given. This invention is generally for use in hospitals and nursing homes to alert caregivers when a patient falls out of a bed or a wheelchair; or if a patient otherwise leaves a bed or chair against the wishes of the caregiver. This situation is of special concern with elderly patients, post operational patients, and / or at night when nursing staffs are reduced.

A method for treating attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) includes performing an objective ADHD behavioral assay for a patient, administering a drug to the patient at varying doses, and performing an fMRI on the patient for the varying drug doses to determine an optimal dosage for the patient. The method can further include performing a further objective ADHD behavioral assay after the drug administration.

The invention relates to the technical field of food preparation, in particular to a food made from sea cucumber (abalone) and a preparation method thereof. The food has the characteristics that the food is made by taking sea cucumber (abalone) and edible seaweed as the main raw materials, and adding a small quantity of flavoring agents, and the sea cucumber (abalone) and the edible seaweed are mixed in a weight ratio of (10-20):1. The preparation method comprises the following steps: accepting and processing the raw materials; boiling to produce a stock; sterilizing at a high pressure; soaking and cooling; freezing; and vacuum-packing and the like. Sea cucumber and abalone processed according to the method are a good example of solving the problem of retaining original shape, flavor and nutritious composition of the seafood, and are easy to preserve and carry. Moreover, the food is suitable for occasions such as banquets at fancy restaurants, in particular suitable for travel and picnic, and also can be consumed by old people, patients weak in constitution and sick persons for rapid recovery. The invention has the advantages of simple technology, easy operation, energy-efficiency, hygiene, capability of preservation at a low temperature, profitability and the like. The preparation method can be widely applied to preparation and processing of sea cucumber, abalone and other seafood, and has the potential of being highly publicized.

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.

This invention relates to a novel method of reducing the mortality and morbidity in critically ill patients which comprises administering to the patients an effective amount of FGF-19.

The psycho / physiological deception detection (PDDS) is a system and method employing PDDS tools to ensure patient truthfulness while conducting a patient interview to assess the severity of pain suffered by the patient and to assess the risk that the patient will divert controlled substances prescribed for the patient to an illicit use. The patient is monitored using the PDDS tool while making an oral response (either live or off-site) to each question in the interview, and a response and a measure of truthfulness of the patient generated from the PDDS monitoring is correlated with each question. Deceptive responses may be probed by asking refining questions to explore possible innocent explanation for a deceptive response. Based on the patient's responses and the indication of truthfulness for each response, a report is generated from which the patient's risk for diverting prescribed medication and the patient's severity of pain may be assessed.

An appliance, a system and a method correct habits of an oral cavity of a patient. The appliance is preformed or is custom-made in an open position or in a closed position. The appliance prevents the patient from breathing through an oral cavity of the patient and encourages the patient to breathe through a nose of the patient. The appliance corrects abnormal swallowing patterns, finger sucking habits, thumb sucking habits, abnormal tongue posturing, abnormal lip posturing and / or speech problems. A slot is formed on a top portion of the appliance to receive teeth of the patient for wearing the appliance. A shelf is formed on a bottom portion of the appliance to move a tongue of the patient to a correct position within the oral cavity during swallowing movements and / or during resting periods between the swallowing movements since there is more room above the shelf from a hollow area above of the shelf which is more comfortable for the patient. First projections are formed on the appliance which may contact the tongue to move the tongue to the correct position within the oral cavity. Second projections are formed on the appliance which may contact the tongue to prevent tongue thrusting by the tongue during the resting periods and / or during the swallowing movements. Third projections are formed on the appliance to move lips to a closed position during resting periods and / or the swallowing movements.

The special mouth mask includes a bowl shape mouth mask body and fixing belts. The mouth mask body is connected with an air suction passage and an exhalation passage. The air suction passage and the exhalation passage are respectively disposed with an air suction shutter and an exhalation shutter. The air suction shutter opens inward and the exhalation shutter opens outward. The using method for the mouth mask is to connect the air suction passage with an air intake pipe in sickroom and connect the exhalation passage with an air discharge pipe by soft pipes, the air intake and output pipes in each sickroom are connected to total air intake and discharge pipes to form the special mouth mask respiratory system. The respiratory system has three work modes of natural respiration, ventilation respiration and compulsion respiration. The mouth mask can collect the gas including virus exhaled by patient, and discharge the gas after disinfection to the outdoor air, and reduce the sickroom pollution; the patient can suck outdoor fresh air; the operation operating medical person can reduce the rate of infection by wearing the mouth mask. The invention is simple in structure, low in manufacturing cost and can be easily actualized.

The invention relates to a massage chair, in particular to a massage chair for spine patients. The invention aims at providing the massage chair for the spine patients, which can automatically massagethe legs and the feet, is economical and practical, and can alleviate the pain of the waist and the pain of the legs and the feet. In order to solve the technical problems, the following technical scheme is adopted: the massage chair for the spine patients comprises a base and the like, wherein a first bracket is fixedly connected to the left side of the upper part of the base, a second bracket is fixedly connected to the right side of the upper part of the base, a cross seat board is fixedly connected to the upper ends of the first bracket and the second bracket, and an opening is formed inthe cross seat board. The massage chair has the functions of automatically massaging the back, the legs and the feet, being economical and practical, and alleviating the pain of the waist and the painof the legs and the feet, the defects that the existing massage chair is expensive, people under poor economic condition can not afford the existing massage chair, and the artificial massage is longin time, causes the aching pain of the hands of a person, and can not alleviate the disease including the pain of the waist, the legs and the cervical vertebra, are overcome, and the massage chair forspine patients provided by the invention has the advantages that the use is convenient and safe, the operation is simple, the manufacturing cost is low, etc.

The invention relates to a hemiplegic patient self nursing and rehabilitation training trolley which consists of a veering walking device used for moving, a lifting device used for relieving the bowels by self and for walking training, a swing training device arranged on a bracket and used for up-and-down and left-and-right training of sick arm, a walking training device that is used for simulating human walking and consists of a annular slideway, a pulley, a walking training footplate, a winch, a connecting rod and a walking training motor in a linkage way, a seat board device used for sitting and for relieving the bowels, a backrest adjusting device and an operating device. The invention provides a nurse type integral nursing device for the hemiplegic patient; the patient can walk or take rest, relieve the bowels by self on the trolley and carry out sick arm swinging training, and standing and walking training just by operating the device by the healthy arm, thereby encouraging the hemiplegic patient to take heart and build confidence to live; and no special person is required to take care of the patient always, thereby lightening the pressure of the family of the patient at the aspects of living, work, economy, spirit, etc.

One purpose of the invention is to provide a method and a formula, which is characterized in that mesenchymal stem cells from an autologous fat cell tissue are proliferated by in-vitro culture, then is mixed into a support material and finally is transplanted into the body of a patient; the fat mesenchymal cell in a transplant is differentiated to derma fibroblast under the action of the local microenvironment, the newly generated derma fibroblast can further activate secretion of cell collagenstroma at an injection part so as to carry out reproductive repair on coloboma and aging of human skin tissue. The application scope of the invention includes: subcutaneous padding for face lift, subcutaneous padding cosmetology, subcutaneous padding for repairing depressed deletion or impairment and the like. Seed cells utilized in the invention are prepared by separating and purifying the fat tissues of the patients, so that ethical disputes and immunological rejection reaction are avoided. The fat tissues can be obtained by the instrument suction method; and the operation of the method is simple, patients suffer from minor damages and pains.

The invention relates to a high-precision dynamic weighing sickbed system and an automatic control method thereof and aims to solve the problems that weight detection of patients is not dynamic and in real time in the prior art, and errors cannot be removed completely. The key points of the technical scheme are as follows: the high-precision dynamic weighing sickbed system adopts commercial power for power supply and comprises a bed board, a bedstead, a control motor and support props and further comprises a control device and pressure sensors, wherein the bedstead is movably connected with the bed board and the control motor; the support props are provided with lifting cylinders; the bed board comprises an upper bed board and a lower bed board which are hinged to each other; the lower surfaces of the upper bed board and the lower bed board are both fixedly connected with the support props; the lifting cylinders are all driven by the control motor; the control motor is electrically connected with the control device; each support prop is provided with a pressure sensor; the pressure sensors are electrically connected with the control device.

The present invention relates to a nursing system and related method for alleviating pain, anxiety and discomfort of patients due to medical and surgical procedures. The nursing system has a patient response monitoring system (12) that monitors the patient's responsiveness and generates a signal reflecting the patient's responsiveness, thereby enabling the clinician to safely and effectively provide sedation to the patient , means of analgesia and a means of amnesia to a certain extent. In another aspect of the invention, the responsiveness monitoring system is an automated system including a patient interrogation and response device. The accompanying embodiments of the system and method are directed to relieving the pain or discomfort of the patient and administering the drug safely based on the monitoring data of the patient's health status.

The invention discloses ultrasonic diagnostic equipment with a fingerprint identifier and a method. On the basis of traditional medical ultrasonic diagnostic equipments, fingerprint identifiers are added to identify the identities of the patients, and on the basis, a new method is provided for acquiring ultrasonic images of the patients and leading in patient data from other ultrasonic diagnostic equipments with fingerprint identifiers. By using mature fingerprint identifying technology to identify the identities of the patients, the equipment can robustly, stably and reliably identify the identities of the patients, thus reducing the input workload of the doctors, reducing the probability of classifying the test data of the same patient as that of different patients and providing correct past case histories for query; in addition, by using fingerprint information, the invention realizes that the doctors are only allowed to access the recorded information of the patients in the presence of the patients, thereby effectively protecting the private data of the patients from leaking, preventing the doctors from insurance fraud by arbitrarily generating or changing the records of the patients and avoiding that the doctors deliberately change the original records when medical negligence happens.

The invention discloses a paralytic patient posture movement auxiliary device comprising a top frame, a vertical supporting column and a base. The top frame is supported by the vertical supporting column. The vertical supporting column is connected with the base through a sliding bearing. The paralytic patient posture movement auxiliary device can lift the hands of a paralytic patient, lift the legs of the paralytic patient, turns over the paralytic patient, make the paralytic patient sit and move the paralytic patient to a wheel chair, the paralytic patient posture movement auxiliary device has multiple complete functions, all the movement demands of the paralytic patient can be basically met, and the work intensity of nursing staff is effectively relieved. Tension sensors are arranged, through the user-friendly design, motors can be controlled to be started or stopped in time according to actual conditions of the paralytic patient, and therefore the situation that the paralytic patient may be hurt when the paralytic patient posture movement auxiliary device is used is effectively avoided.

The invention relates to a multifunctional wounded and sick person conveying device and a using method thereof. An upper plate, a middle plate and a lower plate of the device are sequentially articulated. The upper ends of a front support leg and a rear support leg of a bracket are fixedly connected to the lower plate and the upper plate respectively; the front support leg and the rear support leg are provided with side connecting rods which are articulated; a transverse rod is fixedly connected with the two side connecting rods; slideways are arranged on a left slide frame and a right slide frame of the lower plate, and both ends of a slide rod are embedded into the slideways; a front traveling wheel is installed at the front end of the lower plate; a motor is fixedly installed at the bottom of the middle plate, and a swinging rod installed on the motor is articulated with the slide rod by a pull rod; a rear wheel rod, the bottom end of which is provided with a rear traveling wheel, is articulated to the front side of the middle plate; and a rear wheel pull rod is articulated with the slide rod and the rear wheel rod. In the using method, the three plates are parallel, the swinging rod trends to the front, the rear traveling wheel is raised, and the bracket supports the three plates to form a stretcher. The swinging rod is swung to be vertical, and the rear traveling wheel is supported to form a cart. The swinging rod is backwards swung, the upper plate upwards rotates to form a backrest, the lower plate is downwards folded, and the front traveling wheel and the rear traveling wheel support the three plates to form a wheel chair. The invention realizes the reversible deformation in a state of the stretcher, the cart and the wheel chair, is suitable for different road conditions to convey wounded and sick persons in a rapid and labor-saving way, and has convenient operation.

A person who is elderly, requires care, or an inpatient who is under the care by his or her family members, a nursing care worker, or a nurse in a hospital or medical institution must be monitored constantly, however the caregiver cannot be in attendance on the patient all the time. A biosignal intensity measuring method is provided to solve the above problem. According to the measuring method, output signals from a noninvasive sensor, which detects biosignals from a lying subject, are amplified and noises other than the biosignals are attenuated via a signal amplifying / shaping unit, and the amplified signals are controlled by an automatic gain control (AGC) unit to have sizes within a prescribed range, then parameters acquired by signal gains in a control circuit upon carrying out automatic gain control are output as the output signal intensity of the biosignals to calculate biosignal intensity. A bedding state monitoring method is also provided. According to the monitoring method, the calculated signal intensity is used to monitor the bedding state of the subject, such as a state of being in or out of bed, of weakening or stoppage of biosignals, of body motion, or the like.

The present invention belongs to the field of medical equipment and is especially one intelligent paralytic patient recovering aid system. The intelligent paralytic patient recovering aid system can analyze the motion willing of the paralytic patient for the patient to control the motion of disabled limbs autonomously and to restore autonomous motion ability. The intelligent paralytic patient recovering aid system includes one brain electric signal acquiring system for extracting the brain electric signal of imaging the limb motion, one notebook computer for the characteristic extraction and classifying treatment of brain electric signal, and one functional electric stimulating system the notebook computer controls.

The invention relates to a method for displaying information in a portable monitor for ward rounds. The method comprises the following steps of obtaining information of patients related to a current ward round to form a patient information list, wherein the patient information list includes sickbed numbers of patients, ward numbers of the sickbeds, nursing groups or nursing levels of the patients; partitioning the patients in the patient information list according to the ward numbers or the nursing groups or nursing levels of the patients, and displaying the patient information list in a first interface according to the partitions; and measuring physiological parameters for the patients in the partitions and marking a first mark for the patients after the physiological parameter measurement is finished. The invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing the method for displaying information in the portable monitor for ward rounds. The method and the apparatus for displaying information in the portable monitor for ward rounds have the beneficial effects of simple operation and relatively high efficiency.

The invention provides a physiological parameter reminding method and device. The method comprises the steps that S101, a physiological parameter corresponding to an indicating lamp is set; S102, the value rang of the physiological parameter in the step 1 is set; S103, the physiological parameter is measured; S104, the value of the measured physiological parameter is compared with the value range set in the S102, and if the value exceeds the value range, reminding is carried out. According to the physiological parameter reminding method and device, medical staff can visually know the illness state of a patient, and can do diagnosis quickly and take corresponding measures to help the patient to be out of danger. Under the environment of a plurality of devices, when a plurality of alarm signals appear at the same time, the medical staff can fast determine which device the medical staff need to respond to. When the same device generates a plurality of alarm signals, the medical staff can fast know the problem of the patient without going to a sickbed, and precious emergency treatment time can be bought.

A portable urinal has a lid or projecting member from the housing with a mirror attached to allow the urinal user to properly aim his or her urine stream. The mirror helps users prevent embarrassing accidents and spills when the portable urinal is used in situations such as by bed-ridden patients in hospitals. The portable urinal is filled in a generally horizontal position but is designed to sit vertically on a table or be hung by a handle on a hospital bed rail. The mirror lid or projection can be permanently or removably coupled to the portable urinal to allow for easy urine disposal, cleaning, and sterilization.

A patient monitoring system to help manage a patient that is at risk of forming one or more pressure ulcers is disclosed. The system includes a patient-worn wireless sensor that senses the patient's orientation and wirelessly transmits information indicative of the sensed orientation to a patient monitor. The patient monitor receives, stores, and processes the transmitted information. It also displays and transmits information indicative of the patient's orientation to help caregivers manage the patient's risk of formation of one or more pressure ulcers. The system can identify the present orientation of the patient and determine how long the patient has been in the present orientation. If the patient remains in an orientation beyond a predefined duration, the system can notify the patientand / or caretakers that the patient is due to be repositioned.

A system for diagnosing and tracking patient symptoms includes providing an interview instrument implemented as a computer program accessible by clinician and patient to record symptoms and having diagnostic and assessment information for a selected disorder, the clinician interviewing a patient to identify, assess, and record symptoms on the instrument or the patient recording symptoms on the instrument before the first interview. The clinician develops a diagnosis and treatment plan and records them on the instrument and follows up with interviews for identifying and recording any changes on the instrument for documenting effects of the treatment plan. The interview instrument includes a joint use portion listing symptoms and assessment criteria and space for recording symptoms and assessments, a diagnostic portion having diagnostic criteria for the clinician, a patient-use portion having educational information for the patient and a follow-up portion for tracking effects of a treatment plan across subsequent visits.

The invention discloses a multifunctional nursing bed. The bed comprises a bed body, a bed head, folded guardrails and a lifting platform carrying a human body, and a platform carrying the human body is driven to ascend and descend through a lifting device, so that the lifting platform carrying the human body is formed; the bed further comprises a folding platform for allowing the lifting platform carrying the human body to move horizontally; the folding platform is formed by connecting foldable stand columns (6) and foldable crossbeams (11); the foldable crossbeams (11) are installed in crossbeam slide ways (46) at the two ends of the bed body (7) respectively in a movable-connection mode; a telescopic driving device (42) is installed on the crossbeam slide ways (46) and pushes the foldable crossbeams (11) and the foldable stand columns (6) connected with the foldable crossbeams (11) to move horizontally along the crossbeam slide ways (46). By the adoption of the technical scheme of the multifunctional nursing bed, an old person or a sick person can be transferred between the bed and a wheel chair rapidly and safely, and the old person or the sick person can take a whole body bath in the bed.

A medical diagnostic system and methods that use the complaints or symptoms presented by the patient, along with the physician's top-of-mind diagnoses, to identify in real-time a list of fail-safes that correspond to potential high-risk diagnoses that the patient may be suffering from. The fail-safes are preferably listed in rank order with the most serious on down, and serve as a checklist to remind the emergency physician of possible missed high-risk diagnoses, thereby averting errant diagnoses.