478 results about "Care personnel" patented technology

Disclosed are systems and methods which provide a relatively small, preferably easily transportable, interpretive biotelemetric monitor, such as may utilize platforms developed for use as personal digital assistants, adapted for use by non-health care personnel. A preferred embodiment biotelemetric monitor comprises a self-contained EKG monitor providing ICU cardiac monitoring with accurate real-time diagnostic heart rhythm analysis directly to the wearer. Preferred embodiment biotelemetric monitors implement multiple interactive screens to guide a user through a series of screens to help understand the monitored conditions. Moreover, the biotelemetric monitor may operate to analyze and interpret the monitored data to thereby present information with respect to the probable implications of the monitored condition and/or make recommendations which may be useful to the patient at that time. Preferably, communications functionality is included to facilitate communication between the biotelemetric monitor and a host system.

The present specification discloses systems and methods for patient monitoring using a multitude of display regions, at least two of which have the capability to simultaneously display real time patient waveforms and vital statistics as well as provide display for local and remote software applications. In one example, a primary display shows real time patient waveforms and vital statistics while a customizable secondary display shows trends, cumulative data, laboratory and radiology reports, protocols, and similar clinical information. Additionally, the secondary display can launch local and remote applications such as entertainment software, Internet and email programs, patient education software, and video conferencing applications. The dual display allows caregivers to simultaneously view real time patient vitals and aggregated data or therapy protocols, thereby increasing hospital personnel efficiency and improving treatment, while not compromising the display of critical alarms or other data.

The present invention is directed to a device for monitoring the usage of inhaled drugs by a patient. The device includes an inhaler, a use sensor, a microprocessor, a wireless transmitter and a battery compartment. These components allow information concerning drug usage to be transmitted to health care personnel that can evaluate the data to determine whether there are changes in drug usage characteristics that are indicative of an impending acute attack. The invention includes not only the device, but also the systems and methods in which the device is employed.

Waste disposal device includes a container, a lid, and a rotation mechanism that rotates a waste-containing member when present in the container. A slide mechanism enables opening movement of the lid to cause the rotation mechanism to rotate the waste-containing member or prevent the rotation mechanism from rotating the waste-containing member depending on its setting. A foot pedal assembly includes a foot pedal and a spring, and causes both opening of the lid when the foot pedal is depressed and closure of the lid when the pressing force is removed. The spring is moved against its bias upon depression of the foot pedal and returns to its original state when the pressing force is removed to cause closure of the lid and rotation of the waste-containing member. The device may be used for medical waste from hospitals, doctors' offices, home health care personnel and facilities, nursing homes, and biohazard laboratories.

A bariatric treatment system providing a comprehensive array of therapeutic services for the morbidly obese patient is disclosed. The treatment system generally comprises a stable bed frame upon which is mounted a low air loss therapeutic mattress system. Integrated hardware and software controls provide such therapies as pulsation, percussion, rotation, cardiac chair and Trendelenburg. Means are disclosed whereby the bariatric patient may safely and comfortably enter and exit the bed with relative ease. The bed is adaptable for transport within a hospital, including such features as a TRANSPORT MODE wherein the bed's lateral axis is minimized and battery backup to maintain necessary therapies during patient transport. A plurality of control means are disclosed for simplification of caregiver workload and ease of patient utilization.

The invention discloses an old people falling detection monitoring system, which comprises a data collection module, an embedded wireless gateway, a management and/or positioning monitoring center, an acceleration sensor and a falling warning instrument, wherein the data collection module comprises a monitoring parameter sensor, a coder and a wireless radio frequency emission module; the embedded wireless gateway performs address resolution on data information sent by the data collecting module; the management and/or positioning monitoring center is used for receiving data information sent from a user unit, and displaying the condition of each user and realizing warning after receiving the warning signals; the acceleration sensor detects whether old people fall or not on the basis of the acceleration change in the three-axis direction; the falling warning instrument gives out sound and light warning signals, and notifies care personnel of old people in a short message sending or phone call making mode through GPRS (General Packet Radio Service); meanwhile, the warning signal is sent to the management and/or positioning monitoring center in a wireless way, and the remote warning reminding and warning information storage are performed. The system has the advantages that the normal behavior data can be eliminated; the falling of old people can be accurately detected; positioning and warning reminding are carried out.

An adjustable bed comprises a stationary bed frame and a movable bed frame. A portion of the stationary bed frame is coupled to a portion of a plurality of actuator devices and a portion of the movable bed frame is coupled to a portion of the actuator devices. A power supply coupled to the actuator devices activates the actuator devices. At least one of the actuator devices comprises a safety switch to prevent unauthorized use of the actuator devices, and a toggle switch to elevate and lower at least one actuator of the actuator devices. A caregiver unlocks the safety switch, activates the actuator devices and guides a person transversely from one side of a mattress located on the movable bed frame to a second side of the mattress thereby permitting access to a portion of the person that was previously inaccessible.

The invention provides an independent column bag-type intelligent flexible automatic turnover nursing bed, belonging to the technical fields of medical care and automatic control. The independent column bag-type intelligent flexible automatic turnover nursing bed is composed of closed bag-type water storage equipment, a motor-driven pump, a water bag group, a main controller and a bed support. The automatic turnover nursing bed has the beneficial effects as follows: by means of full utilization of the thermal conductivity and incompressibility of water, accurate control of body temperature and prone position of human body can be realized by controlling water temperature as well as the pressure and flow of water bags in various units, and meanwhile the nursing bed in the operating process can keep quiet without air current noise like that of an air bag device; and as a proportional servo valve is employed for controlling water flow, water filling and discharging time of each water bag can be adjusted artificially so as to achieve the purpose of humanized control of tolerance level of patients during different periods. The automatic turnover nursing bed can regulate body temperature, flexibly change the prone position of a patient lying in bed for long term according to the acceptance of the patient, promote blood circulation, monitor the state of the patient in real time by controlling a computer and various sensors, reduce nursing workload and false accept rate of nursing personnel maximally and improve comfort level of the patient. The independent column bag-type intelligent flexible automatic turnover nursing bed has the advantages of compact structure, fewer parts, lighter weight compared with the similar device, and small packing size, and is easy to replace damaged parts, and is applicable to the environment in shortage of medical personnel for disaster relief, battlefield nursing and the like.

The invention relates to a WELLNESS DATA AGGREGATOR. The present disclosure relates to aggregating and sharing wellness data. The wellness data can be received by a user device from any number of sensors external or internal to the user device, from a user manually entering the wellness data, or from other users or entities. The user device can securely store the wellness data on the user device and transmit the wellness data to be stored on a remote database. A user of the device can share some or all of the wellness data with friends, relatives, caregivers, healthcare providers, or the like. The user device can further display a user's wellness data in an aggregated view of different types of wellness data. Wellness data of other users can also be viewed if authorizations from those users have been received.

A remote pressure-release system includes a health-care massage chair, a medical device, and a remote server. The medical device is disposed on the health-care massage chair, and measures physiological conditions of a user sitting on the health-care massage chair, so as to generate a physiological data and output the physiological data to the server. The server, electrically connected to the medical device, is used for analyzes the physiological data from the medical device, and generates a corresponding device parameter to the health-care massage chair. According to the received device parameter, the health-care massage chair controls the massage unit to provide the user the massage services. With this system, the massage services are provided accurately depending upon the users' physiological conditions, and meanwhile, health-care personnel can analyze the users' current health conditions according to the physiological data to determine whether to start relevant subsequent services to improve the serviceability.

Materials and manufacturing techniques to produce test strips in high volume at low-cost for the measurement of gas in various industries and environments are disclosed. The test strip is generally comprised of a substrate, at least one electrical connection, at least one sensing chemistry and at least one additional layer. The test strip may provide a quantitative and/or a qualitative read out. A method for collecting and analyzing data to monitor and manage patients with chronic respiratory disease is disclosed. Implementations include software applications, connected medical devices, web servers and electronic catalogs. A method for identifying treatment trends from a population combining medical, biological and environmental data is disclosed. A method for proactively alerting and patients, caregivers and medical providers to trends in health by using the implementations of the invention are disclosed.

The present invention provides a medical body-turning bed capable of making patient be arbitrarily turned over from 0-360deg. It can adopt electric program control, and said bed mattress can be divided into four sections of A, B, C and D, in which A and D sections are fixed mattress sections, and the B and C sections and rolling mattress sections which can be turned around the bed plate, and the correspondent bed plate is a kind of chain-board type bed plate, the chain-board type bed plates of two ends can be respectively folded up.