31 results about "Medical surveillance" patented technology

A medical monitor includes a lanyard and an electronic package supported in the manner of a pendant. The lanyard includes integral electrodes or other sensors for making physiological measurements, auxiliary components and connectors for electrically connecting the electrodes or sensors to the electronic package. The physiological measurements may be stored in the monitor for later readout, or may be transmitted, before or after processing, to a remote location.

A wireless medical monitoring system and medical monitoring devices adapted to communicate using a plurality of wireless protocols and networks. For each transmission of data, a wireless protocol or network is selected based on the properties of the available protocols and networks and the nature of the data that is to be transmitted. Thus, the medical system and devices can move seamlessly from one context and location to another. The medical devices may also include additional features, such as detection of improperly positioned or disconnected sensors and auditory and / or visual prompting of the patient to correct the problem. In some embodiments, the medical monitoring devices may comprise body area networks of individual sensors communicating and cooperating with one another wirelessly.

A wireless apparatus and method for the measurement and monitoring of bioelectric signal patterns associated with EEG, EOG and EMG readings is provided. The apparatus is comprised of at least one measurement device employing the use of three bioelectric sensing electrodes, wherein at least one of the electrodes is configured for secure placement within the ear canal of an individual under medical surveillance. Acoustic stimulation may be provided directly into the ear canal of the individual via an auditory stimulus emitted from the measurement device for evoking brain activity and the subsequent measurement of bioelectric signal patterns associated with the evoked activity.

A medical monitor includes a lanyard and an electronic package supported in the manner of a pendant. The lanyard includes integral electrodes or other sensors for making physiological measurements, auxiliary components and connectors for electrically connecting the electrodes or sensors to the electronic package. The physiological measurements may be stored in the monitor for later readout, or may be transmitted, before or after processing, to a remote location.

The invention is a medical monitor including an electronic circuit configured to receive a signal from the physiological sensor. A microcomputer configured to process the signal from the physiological sensor generates a value representative of the physiological parameter. The microcomputer is also configured to cause the medical monitor to display an in-service help screen on a display on the medical monitor in response to a detection of a predetermined number of out of range values of the physiological parameter. The microcomputer can also be configured to process a second signal from a second sensor representative of a second parameter and the microcomputer configured to cause the medical monitor to display an in-service help screen on a display on the medical monitor in response to a detection of a predetermined number of out of range values of the second parameter.

Medical monitoring and treatment apparatus, which is controlled by a plurality of control sources, includes a “personal medical device” (PMD) or an “implantable medical device” (IMD), respectively carried by, or implanted in, a patient. The PMD / IMD is alternatively self-controlled or controlled by one or more local external control stations, at or near the location of the patient, and / or one or more remote external control stations, remote from the patient. Either or both of the local and remote stations may be operated by a person, such as the patient, a patient facilitator and / or a medical professional, or the stations may operate automatically. Since the device is controlled by multiple sources, hierarchies are used to select the source of control.

Video image data is received in the form of a sequence of images representative of a subject performing one or more predetermined tasks within a new environment (FIG. 3 element 31). A plurality of silhouettes is generated from the video image data and combined to provide a motion portrait (FIG. 6). Motion characteristics are then calculated based on the motion portrait and may be compared with normal or previous motion characteristics as part of diagnostic analysis (38).

The present invention discloses an apparatus that combines a cellular phone or other wireless device with one or more medical monitoring devices, wherein the two devices share a single housing, power source, display, memory chip and data processor. The apparatus is capable of functioning as a separate medical apparatus and a normal cellular phone and addresses the need for combining multi-function portable medical testing and condition indicator devices into a device that is already carried by the majority of the population. The preferred embodiment of the invention combines a portable device of blood glucose monitoring with a cellular phone and is capable of audibly alerting the user of abnormal test results and storing multiple test results for monitoring and managing chronic conditions. In addition the apparatus is capable of storing and transmitting medical information to healthcare providers or emergency responders if highly abnormal results are obtained.

Decades of investigations were focused on finding “gold standard” for evaluation of plasma dilution and osmolality, blood loss evaluation and prediction of bleeding or transfusion induced changes in hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration. Addressing deficiencies of existing methods, the current invention created new combined mathematical-physiological model applicable to manually operated nomograms and software in medical monitors. The mathematical model HBS Trends is used in blood transfusion and infusion therapy nomogram—HBS Nomogram—which is based on blood hemoglobin concentration and hematocrit. It is also an easy and practical tool for recording and dynamical interpretation of plasma osmolality, blood hemoglobin concentration, hematocrit and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration. The HBS Nomogram is a practical system for organizing blood test results in a patient's medical records. It can be used alone or, in line with existing guidelines for infusion and transfusion therapy making them more practical, cost effective and time saving in decision making.

The present invention relates to a system and method for simultaneously using and configuring one or more disposable transmitters. The system includes at least one single or multiple use disposable transmitter, a central station, and a receiver module. The transmitter is connected to a patient to gather and measure biomedical information. The transmitter transmits the biomedical information through the receiver module to the central station for processing, storage and display. Prior to use, each transmitter must be configured to work with the central station and the receiver module. This allows the users to configure the disposable transmitters relatively quickly and easily without needing advanced technical information. The inventive configuration also enables the operator to map a location on a monitor in the central station to a specific disposable transmitter and ultimately to a specific patient or location in the coverage area that is covered by the system.

A medical monitoring system extracts characteristic information for one or more medications from an image of the one or more medications on an uncontrolled background, the image being taken by a client device associated with a user of the medical monitoring system. The medical monitoring system determines prescription information associated with a medication, of the one or more medications, using the extracted characteristic information and a medication database, the medication database containing mappings between prescription information and characteristic information for a plurality of medications. The medical monitoring system provides a portion of the prescription information to the client device.

A medical monitoring system that facilitates end-users in obtaining medical information concerning their health or wellness is disclosed. In one embodiment, an end-user is provided with a medical monitoring appliance. In another embodiment, an end-user acquires an appropriate medical monitoring appliance. The end-user can utilize the medical monitoring appliance to capture health data concerning the end-user. The health data can be electronically stored at a central repository and be available for electronic access by medical personnel and / or the end-user. The invention also facilitates remote evaluation of an end-user's health data by another person, such as a medical specialist.

The invention relates to a remote medical surveillance system, which comprises a remote detecting system, a mobile terminal, a data transmission system and a remote medical monitoring system. Related data of conditions of a patient are detected by the remote detecting system and transmitted to the mobile terminal through Bluetooth or infrared, and the mobile terminal transmits the data to the remote medical monitoring system through the data transmission system. The remote detecting system comprises a camera device, an electrocardiographic instrument, a blood glucose meter and a sphygmomanometer. The remote medical monitoring system comprises a data base server, an electrocardiographic terminal and an onsite monitoring terminal. Conditions of patients can be remotely, accurately and timely transmitted to a remote medical treatment system in detail by using the remote medical surveillance system, and accordingly treatment of the patients by doctors is facilitated.

The invention relates to a remote communication system, in particular to an acquisition and transmission system of family remote surveillance information. A family remote surveillance system based on a digital set top box, provided in the invention, comprises a family surveillance terminal, a surveillance platform, a surveillance center and a transmission network, wherein the family surveillance terminal, the surveillance platform and the surveillance center are respectively connected with the transmission network. The invention has highly-intelligent characteristic and technical advantages in the aspects of automatic medical surveillance, remote viewing, and the like. With the arrival of aging society, the growth in the living standard of people and the reduction of industrialization cost and network communication cost, the family remote surveillance system is further popularized and generalized to common families and has very wide market application prospect.

A medical monitor is disclosed for implantation in a human body for monitoring biological activity and states as detected by implanted sensors. The medical monitor includes at least one hard disk drive. A transmitter and receiver produces and receives signals. The medical monitor is in communication with the sensors, by which information on biological activity and states is stored on the at least one disk drive. An enclosure surrounds the at least one hard disk drive. An alert mechanism which is used to signal the user of medical and maintenance conditions is included.

The invention is a medical monitor including an electronic circuit configured to receive a signal from the physiological sensor. A microcomputer configured to process the signal from the physiological sensor generates a value representative of the physiological parameter. The microcomputer is also configured to cause the medical monitor to display an in-service help screen on a display on the medical monitor in response to a detection of a predetermined number of out of range values of the physiological parameter. The microcomputer can also be configured to process a second signal from a second sensor representative of a second parameter and the microcomputer configured to cause the medical monitor to display an in-service help screen on a display on the medical monitor in response to a detection of a predetermined number of out of range values of the second parameter.

The invention discloses an optical fiber based monitoring system for multiple physiological parameters and belongs to the field of medical health surveillance. The monitoring system comprises a lightreceiving and transmitting terminal and sensing optical fiber, wherein the sensing optical fiber is used for transmitting a sensing optical signal carrying vibration information to the light receivingand transmitting terminal; the light receiving and transmitting terminal converts an interference optical signal obtained by coupling the sensing optical signal with a reference optical signal into adigital signal and distinguishes objects by the digital signal; short-time Fourier transform and average filtering processing are performed on the digital signal, and the respiratory rate is acquiredby frequency domain peek seeking; after heartbeat waveform is obtained through high-pass filtering of the digital signal, behavior identification is performed by calculating frequency spectrum energy; systolic pressure is obtained after the heartbeat waveform is subjected to time domain energy signal extraction and average filtering processing; the heartbeat waveform is subjected to FFT frequencydomain peek seeking to obtain the heartbeat. The optical fiber based monitoring system is applicable to family medical surveillance and higher in comfort degree.

There is provided a foldable, portable, trauma treatment and monitoring patient platform. The patient platform includes an upper housing body including a top surface and an upper patient support surface. The patient platform also includes a lower housing body including a rear surface and a lower patient support surface. The upper and lower patient support surfaces are cooperative to collectively support a patient. The lower housing and upper housing are in pivotal communication to enable selective articulation about a pivoting axis between a closed orientation and an open orientation. In the closed orientation, the upper patient support surface is substantially flush with the lower patient support surface. In the open orientation, the upper patient support surface and lower patient support surface are substantially co-planar. A bay capable of receiving at least one medical monitoring / treatment unit is located within at least one of the upper and lower housing bodies.

A medical monitor is disclosed for implantation in a human body for monitoring biological activity and states as detected by implanted sensors. The medical monitor includes at least one hard disk drive. A transmitter and receiver produces and receives signals. The medical monitor is in communication with the sensors, by which information on biological activity and states is stored on the at least one disk drive. An enclosure surrounds the at least one hard disk drive. An alert mechanism which is used to signal the user of medical and maintenance conditions is included.

Disclosed herein is a movable medical monitor that is capable of being operated without connection to an external power supply and is freely movable. The movable medical monitor includes a stand including a cylindrical rod and a base detachably coupled to a lower end of the cylindrical rod and having a plurality of movable wheels; a power station seated on an upper side of the base by fitting a semi-circular groove formed at one side of a body into the circular rod, the power station including a plurality of slots each being combined with a battery; a battery pack coupled to the slot; and a monitor coupled to an upper portion of the cylindrical rod and electrically connected to the power station to receive power.

A method and associated systems for generic data compression. A mobile device receives realtime data from a medical-monitoring device, such as a heart monitor, worn by a patient. The invention compresses and encodes this data into ASCII text characters, which are transmitted via a commonly available low-bandwidth text-messaging service, such as the SMS service supported by most cell phones. The text messages are received by a second mobile device, which decodes the text characters into their original form and displays them to a healthcare practitioner. More critical portions of the data are encoded by a high-precision lossless compression mechanism. In some embodiments, the two mobile devices may be cell phones and the second device may have the ability to interpret the decoded information in order to determine whether to directly or indirectly alert the practitioner or other parties of an exceptional condition detected by the medical monitor.

The invention relates to the field of medical surveillance, and discloses a data acquisition system for ward body temperature measurement. The system comprises a temperature measuring device, a control line device, a data processing system and a nurse surveillance platform. The temperature measuring device is used for measuring the temperature at the head of the human body, acquiring the temperature of the acquisition points by selecting the matrix formation as the trail, and generating data and sending the data to the data processing system. The control line device controls the temperature measuring device to move based on the set motion trail, coordinates with the temperature measuring device for the temperature measuring work. The data processing unit conducts the calculation of the acquired data through an acquisition method of the body temperature measuring data, and feeding back the calculation results to the nurse surveillance platform. According to the data acquisition system for ward body temperature measurement, the temperature measuring device is used for acquiring temperature of patients, the area for the data acquisition is the surface temperature of the exposed skin of the patients, therefore the purpose of the humanized temperature acquisition is achieved, and the surveillance purpose is met.

The present invention is a biomarker for breast cancer, including early stage and precancerous conditions. Patients exhibiting reduced expression of acetyl-LDL receptor in a NAF sample collected from a breast that is below the 95% confidence limit of normals either have breast cancer are at high risk to develop breast cancer and should become the object of increased medical surveillance.

A medical monitor is provided. The medical monitor may include a transparent display sheet providing spaced apart first and second conductive elements along a distal side of the display sheet. Electric ink marks may electrically connect to either the first or the second conductive element so as to form an open circuit having spaced apart first and second electric ink markings along said distal side. The display sheet may be sandwiched between two bandage sheets prior to placing the proximal side near or around a wound site the open circuit was tailored for. Wherein blood from the wound site would migrate through the two bandage sheets onto the distal side, bridging the open circuit of adjacent first and second ink markings, so that if the open circuit where electrically connected in series with a power supply and an alarm, the alarm would be powered.

A mobile phone (108) is configured as an adjunct to a medical monitoring device (100) to make an emergency phone call (228) to a predetermined, trusted care-giver or -overseer (120) when an abnormal medical condition is detected by the device(204). The phone and the device preferably communicate wirelessly with each other, as through a Bluetooth connection (212). Preferably, the phone is equippedto play back a pre-recorded voice message on the phone call (236), which may include the current location of the patient (216, 220), instructions personalized to the care-giver (168), and an image orvideo playback of the patient. The phone may concurrently page emergency medical services.

The invention discloses a trunk sensor network adaptive management device and a decision making method in the technical field of medical surveillance. The device comprises a plurality of sensor nodes and a controller, wherein the sensor nodes are attached to a surface or implanted into a body; the controller is connected by a wireless network; the sensor nodes are temperature sensors, gravity sensors or humidity sensors; the wireless network refers to a wireless transmission network among the sensor nodes and between the sensor nodes and the controller, and follows an 802.15.4 protocol; and the controller is realized by adopting a palmtop or a smart phone with a processor. By the device and the method, the service time of finite electric quantity of the whole device can be prolonged by automatic decision making regulation, and sensors can change a decision without reloading a program.

The invention discloses a minimally invasive surgery video system with a surgery process video recorder and the limiting function. The minimally invasive surgery video system comprises a camera, a video processing unit, a management module, a monitor and the surgery process video recorder. The camera transmits surgery process image signals to the video processing unit to be processed, and the surgery process image signals are encrypted and then are transmitted to the surgery process video recorder to be stored and the monitor to achieve synchronized broadcast through the management module. When medical disputes exist, a specialized agency (a third-party medical surveillance department or agency or a superior department or a court) decodes the video data, and the authenticity of the data is ensured. When the system is not connected with the surgery process video recorder, the management module is prevented from transmitting video signals to the monitor, and it is ensured that surgery process video information is recorded.

A medical monitor is provided. The medical monitor may include a plurality of sheets and a power source electrically connected in series with an alarm and an open circuit. The plurality of sheets may include a distal side and a proximal side. The open circuit may be sandwiched between distal sides of adjacent sheets. A user may mount either proximal side to a bleed site on a patient where bleeding can occur, for example, entry points for intravenous applications. The plurality of sheets may allow blood to flow from the bleed site through the proximal side and through distal side so that the blood may close the open circuit, so that the alarm is powered.