120 results about "Hospital stay" patented technology

Present invention is a system of blood glucose monitoring and intensive insulin therapy in a ICU for strict maintenance of normoglycemia which reduces intensive care and hospital mortality and morbidity of critically ill adult patients. The findings of present study also reveal factors determining insulin doses needed to maintain normoglycemia as well as the impact of insulin dose versus blood glucose level on the observed outcome benefits have been established. The invention provides a control system that adapts the flow of the insulin infusion based on insulin requirement calculated by blood glucose levels and clinical parameters such as history of diabetes, Body Mass Index, blood glucose level on admission, reason of ICU admission, time in the ICU, type and severity of illness, caloric intake, obesity, drugs affecting insulin sensitivity). This automated insulin monitoring systems significantly reduces the workload and human resource management problems for intensive insulin therapy in patients in the ICU.

A knee prosthesis, methods of implanting the prosthesis, method of treating arthritis of the knee, and a kit therefore are provided. The prosthesis answers many of the limitations of current knee prosthetic devices by providing a two-component (or alternatively, an optional three-component) device, as either a single structure, or as separate pieces. One of the components is constructed of low friction material, while the second is composed of a weight-dissipating cushioning material; the optional third component is constructed of low friction material. The prosthesis is initially attached to surrounding soft tissue in the knee by biodegradable sutures; it is held permanently in place by fibrous ingrowth into a porous collagen rim in the cushioning component. Major improvements provided by the present invention over currently available prostheses include minimal incisions, minimal or no bone cuts, minimal overall dissection (these improvements lead to shorter hospital stays and rapid rehabilitation and fewer potential for side effects), less prosthetic wear, greater longevity, fewer activity restrictions, able to be used on young, large, active patients, ease of revision, ease of conversion into a total knee arthroplasty if needed.

A patient care management system for assisting a physician in monitoring drug use by a patient. The system receives drug dispensation data for a drug, on the basis of which the system determines drug supply availability data. The drug supply availability data is indicative of periods of time during which the drug was available in non-duplicate supply, or in oversupply, or in insufficient supply. The periods of time are displayed with respect to a common time base. Each degree of supply availability is visually displayed via a graphical user interface using, e.g., a color coded scheme, so as to be distinguishable by a user. This allows a physician to rapidly assess over-consumption or compliance problems. Plural drugs may be monitored on a single display screen. The system may also be adapted to allow an prescribing physician to assess refill compliance, hospitalization periods and prescription drug costs.

Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) as a surgical approach is increasingly utilized because of the advantages it offers over conventional spine surgery. The smaller incision results in decreased tissue damage, less blood loss, decreased hospital stay & faster postoperative recovery. The drawbacks of MISS are the long learning curve of working through a smaller incision, longer length of surgery, & potential higher complication rate due to compromised visual field. These limitations can be overcome by more effectively using imaging and navigational devices. The pedicle device simplifies the hardest part of MISS instrumented fusion of conventional pedicle screw insertion by introducing a percutaneous temporary device to locate and create the channel for later conventional pedicle screw implantation using available imaging techniques. This results in faster conventional pedicle screw insertion with precision, thereby decreasing implantation error and minimizing soft tissue injury and blood loss, as well as neurological, vascular, and dural injuries and complications.

The invention relates to a computer controlled multi-air-bag matrix-type medical air cushion bed which comprises an air cushion bed body and a mattress arranged on the air cushion bed body and matched with the air cushion bed body. The mattress consists of a plurality of air bag units mutually independent and arranged in a matrix-type mode, an air pump system and a computer control system. The computer controlled multi-air-bag matrix-type medical air cushion bed is simple in structure, can conduct timed (t), fixed-pressure (P) and fixed point (x, y) control on the air pressure in each air bag unit, so that the contact surface of the mattress and a patient shows a specific supporting face according to the illness condition demand, the patient obtains rehabilitation exercise unconsciously, a treatment effect is improved, and the length of stay is shortened. In addition, bedsores can be prevented and treated, and the cost of the patient and burden of nurses are relieved.

An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method of forecasting a demand for a particular hospital unit. The method can be executed by programming the steps into a computer readable medium. One step includes logging a total number of beds in the particular hospital unit and available nursing slots to determine a capacity for the particular hospital unit. The method also includes analyzing data for patients scheduled to stay in the particular hospital unit data to predict stochastic arrivals in order to estimate a total inflow. A length of stay of a patient in the particular hospital unit is predicted using a survival analysis based on physician orders to estimate a total outflow. Additionally, the method includes executing an algorithm designed to use the capacity, total inflow, and total outflow to determine the demand for the particular hospital unit.

A respiratory protection system which is worn by a passenger during a flight in air plane, by a patient visiting hospital or doctors office, a nurse working with a patient during hospital stay, or the like. The system includes a relatively light weight, substantially rigid, headgear structure, containing an air disinfection chamber, a fan means, a filter means, an ultraviolet air disinfection means, an air blanket origination means and an energizing means.

The invention discloses a sliding positioning guide device which comprises an arc-shaped fixing arm including an arc-shaped chute, an arc-shaped sliding arm matched with the arc-shaped chute, a positioning puncture needle matched with a positioning needle and a skeleton fixing part installed in a drill bit sleeve. The starting end of the arc-shaped fixing arm is provided with the drill bit sleeve radially extending along the arc-shaped fixing arm, and the drill bit sleeve is provided with a fixing screw for fixing the drill bit sleeve. The tail end of the fixing arm is provided with a fixing screw for fixing the sliding arm in the arc-shaped chute, the tail end of the sliding arm is provided with the positioning needle radially extending along the arc-shaped sliding arm, and the positioning needle is provided with a fixing screw for fixing the positioning needle. The arc-shaped fixing arm and the arc-shaped sliding arm are con-cyclic, the skeleton fixing part and the positioning needle are located on the same horizontal plane, and the skeleton fixing part installing the drill bit sleeve and the positioning needle encounter at the center of the circle. The sliding positioning guide device is simple in structure, convenient to operate and capable of accurately and rapidly enabling a drill bit or a guide needle to penetrate an appropriate position, reduces secondary operation injury on local soft tissues, shortens the operation time, reduces bleeding, reduces complications of postoperative patients and shortens the hospital stays.

The invention discloses a method for effectively culturing tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). The method comprises the following steps: extracting mononuclear cells from the pectoral ascite or tumor tissue of a patient, washing, inoculating into a culture bottle coated with recombinant human fibrin and cluster-of-differentiation-3 antibody, culturing for 24 hours, adding interleukin II, then using a serum-free culture medium containing the interleukin II and the supernatant pectoral ascite to enlarge and subculture every two or three days, and adding apoptosis-regulated protein survivin and mucoprotein-1 on the twelveth or thirteenth day to activate the killing activity; and harvesting cells on the fourteenth day. By adopting the method, the culture time, which is only 14 days, is greatly shortened, so that the hospital stays of the patient can be greatly shortened and the hospital burden of the patient can be reduced. Meanwhile, the problems that the cell proliferation speed is low and the proliferation ratio is low can be solved, thus the number of the cultured cells can meet the clinical requirement. The cultured TILs has strong cell specificity so as to enhance the clinical curative effect.

Methods of treating patients with acute fluid overload comprising administering diuretic therapy and an amount of KW-3902, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester, amide, metabolite, or prodrug thereof, effective to accelerate removal of excess fluid from the patient in comparison to diuretic therapy alone. Methods of improving the treatment time to achieve adequate diuresis in an individual experiencing acute fluid overload comprising administering to said individual a diuretic and a therapeutically effective amount of KW-3902 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester, amide, metabolite, or prodrug thereof.

Small implantable silicon-based devices offer an ability to revolutionize the management of trauma victims. For example, implantable pressure sensors allow the devastating outcomes of compartment syndrome to be minimized through continuous or periodic monitoring whilst being compatible with the ongoing drives to increase out-patient care and reduced hospitalization time. Further, small implantable silicon-based sensor microsystems according to embodiments of the invention whilst being capable of measuring pressures under diverse conditions are easily used by nurses in hospital settings as well as also being easily deployed by paramedical personnel in cases of accidents, natural disasters, war, etc. Beneficially, the implantable sensor microsystem will not interfere with movement of the patient during stabilization, surgery, intensive care stay, outpatient management, etc.

The present invention relates to a percutaneous pediculus arcus vertebrae screw internal fixation system. It includes the following three portions: channel integrated type pediculus arcus vertebrae screw, screw plug and self-positioning connection rod. Said invention also provides the concrete structure of above-mentioned every portion, and also provides the concrete operation method of said percutaneous pediculus arcus vertebrae screw internal fixation system.

The invention provides methods for (a) prolonging time to hospitalization for heart failure; (b) prolonging time to first hospitalization for heart failure; (c) reducing the total number of days a patient with heart failure spends in the hospital for heart failure for a single hospital stay (i.e., reducing the duration of a single hospital stay for a patient with heart failure); (d) reducing the total number of days a patient spends in the hospital for heart failure for multiple hospital stays (i.e., two or more hospital stays); (e) reducing the number of hospital admissions for heart failure; (f) reducing mortality and reducing hospitalizations for heart failure (e.g., the total number of days in the hospital and / or the number of hospital visits); (g) increasing the left ventricular ejection fraction in a heart failure patient; (h) treating a sexual dysfunction (e.g., erectile dysfunction and female sexual dysfunction) (j) treating a headache in a heart failure patient by administering a non-steroidal antiinflammatory compound (i.e., NSAIDs); (k) treating a heart failure patient who has a history of hypertension (but who is not currently diagnosed with hypertension); (l) improving the quality of life in a heart failure patient based on the Minnesota Living with heart failure questionnaire; (m) decreasing the levels of B-type natriuretic peptide; (n) treating hypertension in a heart failure patient; (o) lowering blood pressure in a heart failure patient; (p) treating labile hypertension; (q) treating idiopathic hypertension; (r) increasing patient compliance with medication dosing in a heart failure patient; (s) treating hypertension in a patient with a dilated heart; (t) treating ischemic disease and / or coronary artery disease; and (u) reducing cardiomegaly in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of (i) a hydralazine compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, (ii) isosorbide dinitrate and / or isosorbide mononitrate, and (iii) optionally at least one compound selected from the group consisting of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, β-adrenergic antagonists, angiotensin II antagonists, aldosterone antagonists, cardiac glucosides (digitalis), and diuretic compounds.

The invention relates to the field of medical instruments and discloses a ligament reestablishing system. After a ligament is reestablished for the first time by using the ligament reestablishing system, the ligament can be quickly replaced through a small incision outside a joint without using an arthroscope if a revision surgery needs to be carried out on the ligament. Because the technology has the character of quick revision, a ligament substitute material is not needed to be firmly combined with a bone channel any longer, so the ligament reestablishing system provides possibilities for reliable use of artificial materials except autologous / allogenic tendons. Moreover, the difficulty and cost of the revision surgery are reduced, the hospital time is reduced, and the indication of ligament reestablishment is expanded. The ligament reestablishing system comprises a first endosteal hollow channel, a second endosteal hollow channel, a ligament substitute, a first fixing piece and a second fixing piece. A bone penetrating through the near end of the joint and a bone penetrating through the far end of the joint are implanted into the first endosteal hollow channel and the second endosteal hollow channel respectively. The ligament substitute is placed into the first endosteal hollow channel and the second endosteal hollow channel.

The invention discloses an auxiliary incision-free anus cannula device, relates to a peritoneoscope surgical operation auxiliary instrument and provides an auxiliary incision-free anus cannula device which has the advantages that no scar is left on the abdomen, the postoperative pain is reduced to the greatest extent, the length of stay is shortened, the expense is reduced and the like. The auxiliary incision-free anus cannula device is provided with an outer cannula, a guide tube, a rear cover and an apparatus hole cover, wherein external threads are formed at the tail end of the outer cannula; the outer cannula sleeves the guide tube; internal threads which are formed at the rear cover are in threaded connection with the external threads at the tail end of the outer cannula; a conical part is arranged at the front end of the guide tube; a grip handle is arranged at the rear end of the guide tube; an apparatus hole is formed in the tail of the rear cover; internal threads at the apparatus hole cover are in threaded connection with external threads at the tail of the rear cover. A peritoneoscope lower left colon and rectum resection operation is completed without an abdomen wall auxiliary incision, the minimally invasive aim is achieved, an abdomen wound is more attractive, the occurrence of postoperative incisional hernia, incision infection, dehiscence, incision tumour abdomen wall plantation and the like is avoided, and the intestinal canal adhesion probability is reduced. The auxiliary incision-free anus cannula device has the advantages that tumour-free operation is realized, the operation is simple and convenient, and safety and reliability are realized.

A clinical documentation improvement (CDI) smart scoring method may include predicting, via per-condition diagnosis machine learning (ML) models and based on clinical evidence received by a system, a probability that a medical condition is under-documented and, via per-condition documentation ML models and based on documentation received by the system, a probability that a medical condition is over-documented. The under- and over-documentation scores are combined in view of special indicators and queryability factors, which can also be evaluated using ML query prediction models, to generate an initial CDI score. This CDI score can be further adjusted, if necessary or desired, to account for factors such as length of stay, payer, patient location, CDI review timing, etc. The final CDI score can be used to prioritize patient cases for review by CDI specialists to quickly and efficiently identify meaningful CDI opportunities.

A respiratory protection system which is worn by a passenger during a flight in air plane, by a patient visiting hospital or doctors office, a nurse working with a patient during hospital stay, or the like. The system includes a relatively light weight, substantially rigid, headgear structure, containing an air disinfection chamber, a fan means, a filter means, an ultraviolet air disinfection means, an air blanket origination means and an energizing means.

Current invention relates to a combined system developed for the purpose of use in the treatment of anorectal fistulas. Fistulectomy Set is a system consisting of fistulectomy units which functions fully controlled and transmitting the pivoted movement which comes from the movement providing and transmitting part to the cutting edge by moving it on a central guide with the help of a motion carrier flexible shaft consisting of hexahedron spheroid parts. It consists of a cannulation apparatus which provides a simultaneous rotation, vibration and reciprocating movement and which detects the fistula trace fully and accurately. With this cutting edge, a channel surrounded by living tissue is obtained by cutting around the fistula trace cylindrically with suitable thickness, and thus cutting the secretory mucosa, dead tissues and fibrotic structures. With the developed system, it is believed that important progress will be made in the treatment of anorectal fistula; an important social and medical problem. It will prevent the loss of labor force, shorten hospital stays, reduce costs and minimize complications of treatment. Most importantly, it will prevent anal incontinence and hence a very important problem will be solved.

The invention provides methods for (a) prolonging time to hospitalization for heart failure; (b) prolonging time to first hospitalization for heart failure; (c) reducing the total number of days a patient with heart failure spends in the hospital for heart failure for a single hospital stay (i.e., reducing the duration of a single hospital stay for a patient with heart failure); (d) reducing the total number of days a patient spends in the hospital for heart failure for multiple hospital stays; (e) reducing the number of hospital admissions for heart failure; and (f) reducing mortality and reducing hospitalizations for heart failure (e.g., the total number of days in the hospital and / or the number of hospital visits) in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of (i) a hydralazine compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, (ii) isosorbide dinitrate and / or isosorbide mononitrate, and (iii) optionally at least one compound selected from the group consisting of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, β-adrenergic antagonists, angiotensin II antagonists, aldosterone antagonists, cardiac glucosides (digitalis), and diuretic compounds.

The invention discloses an endoscope lower thoracic vertebra body expander. The outer side of a middle shaft (5) is sleeved with a spiral sleeve (3). A movable sleeve (1) is arranged at the lower end of the spiral sleeve (3). Lugs (8) are arranged on the two sides of the movable sleeve (1) and provided with twisting shafts (9), and supporting arms (10) are arranged on the twisting shafts (9). Compared with the prior art, the expander can be placed in the chest through a minimally-invasive opening, the supporting arms are used for expanding a thoracic vertebra body fixing screw, operation is performed on the outer side of the chest through an operation handle, the problem that no proper expanders exist in endoscopic surgery for treating thoracic vertebra injuries is effectively solved, operation of the surgery is simplified, trauma of the surgery is reduced, surgery time and length of hospital stay of patients are shortened, and the endoscope lower thoracic vertebra body expander is suitable for treating thoracic vertebra injuries and lumbar vertebra injuries and is an ideal restoration assorted instrument special for minimally-invasive treatment of thoracolumbar injuries.

The invention provides a short-peptide nutritious food formula. The short-peptide nutritious food formula comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 5-30 parts of hydrolyzed whey protein, 20-70 parts of maltodextrin, 5-30 parts of vegetable oil meal, 5-30 parts of isomalto-oligosaccharide, 0.5-10 parts of L-glutamine, 0.5-10 parts of linseed oil micro-capsule powder, 1-5 parts of compound minerals, and 0.05-0.5 part of compound vitamins. A nutritious food prepared according to the formula is capable of effectively supplementing various nutrients needed by the human body, including proteins, vitamins, minerals and the like; and thus, guarantee on nutrient needs is provided for perioperative patients so as to improve post-operation nutrient level of the patients, reduce incidence of complications and shorten hospital stay.

The invention discloses a method for preparing atomized liquid for treating infantile asthmatic suffocating pneumonia. The atomized liquid comprises gleditsia fruit, loquat leaf, European hop flower, Chinese waxgourd semen, common bluebeard herb, platycodon root, red clover, whiteflower hogfennel root and borneol which serve as raw materials. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) extracting the loquat leaf, the European hop flower and the common bluebeard herb by a supercritical fluid extraction method to obtain volatile oil; (2) crushing the gleditsia fruit and the borneol into superfine powder; (3) decocting the red clover, the whiteflower hogfennel root, the Chinese waxgourd semen and the platycodon root in water twice, filtering, mixing filtrates, and concentrating at the temperature of 80 DEG C until the relative density is 1.1 to obtain a water extracting solution; and (4) stirring the volatile oil obtained in the step (1), the superfine powder obtained in the step (2) and the water extracting solution obtained in the step (3) uniformly, standing at normal temperature for 12 hours, and filtering to obtain liquid medicine. Clinical experiments prove that the atomized liquid prepared by the method has an obvious treatment effect, and the hospital stays can be shortened.

A modularly packaged mother and newly born infant needs system includes two sets of soft baby items and hardware items for during birth related hospital stay, consecutive hospital release, travel home and up to at least the first three days at home. Also included are diapers and eventual nursing items and / or formula feeding items. The system is highly compacted for shelf storage and or hand luggage air plane transportation. In an overall container are fitted a carry-on bag, a stationary bag and a hardware container. The carry-on bag contains a first set with items for the hospital and travel home and the stationary bag contains a second set with soft baby items for at home. The hardware container may be packed into the carry-on bag.

The invention provides a compound maltodextrin fructose beverage. Each liter of compound maltodextrin fructose beverage comprises, by weight, 100-110 g of maltodextrin, 10-20 g of crystalline fructose, 2.0-3.0 g of sodium citrate, 3.0-4.0 g of potassium citrate, 0.1-0.2 g of sweetening agent, 0.2-0.3 g of vitamin C, pH modifier, and the balance water, wherein the dosage of the pH modifier follows the standard of making the pH of the compound maltodextrin fructose beverage be 4.7-5.0. The compound maltodextrin fructose beverage contains carbohydrates and vitamin C, the energy of the beverage is high, and the beverage is rich in nutrition. The invention further provides a method for preparing the compound maltodextrin fructose beverage. The preparation method is simple and easy to operate. The compound maltodextrin fructose beverage is suitable for being drunk by a patient before an operation, so that the patient's energy storage under the conditions of an empty stomach is improved, the carbohydrate metabolism is maintained, postoperation insulin resistance is reduced, pre-operation thirst, hunger and anxiety are relieved, the patient's postoperation subjective symptom improvement awareness is improved, the thin and weak patient's weight loss is reduced, and hospital stay is shortened.

The invention discloses a wisdom medical platform for preventing gastroesophageal reflux and a realization method for the platform. The platform comprises a wearable monitoring terminal, a wireless transmission module and a wisdom medical monitoring software system, wherein the wearable monitoring terminal and the wisdom medical monitoring software system are both connected with the wireless transmission module; an airbag is mounted on the outer side wall of a stomach tube; and a pressure pump is mounted outside the stomach tube and connected with the airbag. Family members of patients or medical monitoring personnel are notified in first time after the gastroesophageal reflux occurs through the wisdom medical monitoring software system, so that the real-time property is good, and higher safety and high efficiency are achieved; and a home, community and hospital integrated remote monitoring system is constructed based on a PC end, a cloud end and a mobile terminal, so that the patients or old people can be remotely monitored, more dysphagia patients or more nasal feeding old people can safely return to the society to perform community or home health care, the hospitalization time is shortened, and medical resources are saved. The platform can be widely applied to the field of medical electronics.

Systems, methods and apparatuses for performing wound analysis using THz imaging are provided. Due to the large complex component of water's dielectric constant in the THz regime, and the relative frequency invariance of non-aqueous tissue constituents, this modality is highly sensitive to the water content of tissue. It has been found that using THz imaging turns the presence of edema into a contrast mechanism, and allows for the use of the spatial distributions of edema to assess wound status immediately. Apparatus and methods enable earlier diagnosis of wound status which could result in accelerated treatment and shorter overall hospital stays.

The invention discloses a text mining method and system based on unstructured electronic medical records. The method comprises the steps that multiple current medical history records derived from a hospital database serve as the original experimental data, and each sample is spread in a time series, words describing the meaning of time are identified at first, then long text is divided into several pieces of short text by taking a time node as boundary, that is to say, current medical histories are split into each hospital record; the features of the current medical history and extraction rules are determined and saved as an xml file; on the basis of medical history information extraction and structured storage, the defined rules are rewritten to form a regular expression to achieve feature extraction of unstructured text; quantitative representation of features is conducted, wherein by means of the data type of eigenvalue obtained after analysis and extraction, the eigenvalue is numerically quantified. The quantified eigenvalue is unified into the feature representation X=(x1, x2, x3, ..., x57) during one hospital stay, and then serves as the text features of an unsupervised clustering algorithm to implement text clustering.

The invention discloses a fracture rib bone setting device system for a thoracoscope. The system comprises a fracture bone setting plate body, fixing claws and thread-carrying self-locking tying belts; multiple first fixing holes and multiple second fixing holes are formed in the two sides of the fracture bone setting plate body at intervals, and multiple first fixing grooves and multiple second fixing grooves are formed in the edges of the two sides of the fracture bone setting plate body at intervals; the fixing claws are used for being clamped among the first fixing grooves and the second fixing grooves; the thread-carrying self-locking tying belts are used for penetrating into the first fixing holes and the second fixing holes to fix the fracture bone setting plate body in the rib bones. Through the mode, the system can fix the fracture rib bones under the thoracoscope while conducting thoracic exploration operative treatment on severe thoracic traumas with rib fracture at many parts, the operation process is simplified to a certain extent, opportunities can also be created for a patient with bone fracture at the back rib bones, thus the rehabilitation process of the patient isquicker, the occurrence probability of complications relevant to rib fracture is lowered, the hospital stay time is shortened, and the system is expected to increase the curative rate for clinical rib fracture thoracic injuries.

The invention relates to an internal fixation system and a use method thereof. The internal fixation system comprises a bone fracture plate of an inert biological material and a bone fracture screw ofone or more capable of degrading a magnesium alloy, and may further comprise an internal fixation extraction forceps in actual use. The invention also discloses a use method of the aforementioned internal fixation system. The internal fixation system and the use method have the advantages of a traditional internal fixation system, and utilize the feature that the position that the bone fracture plate is in contact with the bone fracture screw easily generates galvanic corrosion so that corrosion residual screws can be simply and quickly cut off when taking out the bone fracture plate, and screw rod parts of the remaining bone fracture screws can remain in a human body, thereby reducing the hospitalization rate and hospitalization time of patients, and improving the surgical satisfaction of the patients.