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7611483 Indicator metrics for infection monitoring  
A method for monitoring an infection in proximity to an implantable medical device includes monitoring an indicator of infection in proximity to an implanted medical device; determining whether the...
7604610 Surgical fluid management  
A fluid flow device includes a housing configured to releasably mate with a surgical control unit for controlling fluid flow during a surgical procedure. First and second ports measure fluid...
7574371 Medical diagnosis management system  
A computerized medical diagnosis management system includes a central computer system comprising a data processor; at least one data interface operatively coupled to the data processor and...
7574246 Method and apparatus for the administration of CO  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the administration of carbon monoxide (CO) to a patient. It allows the safe and effective use of carbon monoxide as a medicament.
7565208 Catheter with sensor tips, tool and device and methods of use of same  
An apparatus and method for catheter-based sensing and injection at a target site within a patient's body. An injection catheter is equipped with electrodes at its distal end which contact the...
7556613 Array and method for dosing a hormone regulating blood sugar in a patient  
The invention concerns an array and a method for dosing a hormone regulating the blood glucose, especially insulin of a diabetic patient ( 10 ). In order to improve the administration of the...
7553281 Insulin bolus recommendation system  
A system for recommending insulin bolus quantities to an insulin user includes a display unit and memory unit coupled to a control circuit with a user blood glucose target stored in the memory...
7547281 Algorithm sensor augmented bolus estimator for semi-closed loop infusion system  
An infusion system is for infusing a fluid into the body of a patient. The infusion system includes at least one sensor for monitoring blood glucose concentration of the patient and an infusion...
7539537 Systems and methods for providing sensor fusion  
The present invention comprises a system that incorporates the natural relationships of patient parameters into a medical monitoring system in order to increase monitoring specificity by reducing...
7509156 System for managing glucose levels in patients with diabetes or hyperglycemia  
A blood glucose maintenance system for use by hyperglycemic individuals measures their blood glucose level and calculates an appropriate glucose or insulin dosage based on the measurement. Recheck...
7491187 Automatic infusion system based on an adaptive patient model  
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...
7485109 Targeted cooling of tissue within a body  
Devices and methods to cool a target tissue region inside the body are described. Fluid cooled below normal body temperature and blood at a normal body temperature are provided to the tissue region...
7485099 Systems and methods for determining pressure and spacing relating to anatomical structures  
Systems and methods for measuring the pressure exerted between or within anatomical masses/structures, as well as the position and/or spatial dimensions of an anatomical structure. According to a...
7442178 Automated system and method for blood components separation and processing  
A blood processing centrifuge comprising: a rotor having an axis of rotation and being controllably spun around the axis, a mechanism for processing whole blood within the rotor while spinning, a...
7413548 Autonomic nervous activity monitor, blood processing apparatus, blood collecting apparatus and autonomic nervous activity monitoring method  
An autonomic nervous activity monitor capable of predicting occurrence of abnormal reaction depending on autonomic nervous activity and used for medical practice and the like is provided. A blood...
7404796 System for determining insulin dose using carbohydrate to insulin ratio and insulin sensitivity factor  
An apparatus and method are provided for determining a patient's carbohydrate to insulin ratio (CIR) and insulin sensitivity factor (ISF), and using these values, along with values for current...
7402153 Closed-loop method for controlling insulin infusion  
A closed loop infusion system controls the rate that fluid is infused into the body of a user. The closed loop infusion system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery system. The...
7367942 Method and apparatus for testing blood glucose in a reversible infusion line  
An apparatus for automatically and periodically measuring a patient's blood glucose level wherein the patient has a catheter in a blood vessel and is receiving infusion fluid through the catheter....
7367339 Neural networks in sedation and analgesia systems  
The present invention comprises systems and methods for handling large amounts of data prone to ambiguity and artifact in real-time in order to ensure patient safety while performing a procedure...
7364562 Anti-clotting apparatus and methods for fluid handling system  
A method for maintaining clear passageways in an extracorporeal blood flow system. The method comprises intermittently providing one or more anti-clotting agents to a passageway of the...
7354420 Closed loop system for controlling insulin infusion  
A closed loop infusion system controls the rate that fluid is infused into the body of a user. The closed loop infusion system includes a sensor system, a controller, and a delivery system. The...
7327273 Fluid monitoring device  
This invention relates to a device to monitor the administration of a fluid through a conduit, such as intravenous fluid, and detect the completion of fluid delivery by monitoring the fluid level...
7302289 Readable probe array for in-vivo use  
A disposable high density optically readable polydeoxynucleotide array with integral fluorescence excitation and fluorescence emission channels is described. The compact array size allows...
7291497 Medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery  
The invention relates to an ingestible, implantable or wearable medical device comprising a microarray which comprises a bioactive agent capable of interacting with a disease marker biological...
7278983 Physiological monitoring device for controlling a medication infusion device  
Methods and apparatuses for calculating and transmitting medication dosage or bolus information are provided. A blood glucose meter receives a test strip with a sample of the user's blood and...
7232435 Delivery of a sympatholytic cardiovascular agent to the central nervous system to counter heart failure and pathologies associated with heart failure  
A sympatholytic cardiovascular agent delivered by a drug delivery pump to a central nervous system site to alleviate symptoms and otherwise treat heart failure (HF) and pathologies associated with...
7231263 Method for controlling insulin pump through internet  
A method for controlling an insulin pump through the Internet. The method comprises the steps of ascertaining whether a logged-in person is a physician; determining the logged-in person as a nurse...
7211063 Pressure sensor for therapeutic delivery device and method  
The present invention is an apparatus for treating a selected patient tissue or organ region, at the surface of such region. The apparatus has an accessing tool for accessing the patient region,...
7201732 Dispensing method and device for delivering material to an eye  
A method and device for administering material to an eye during an eye-open interval. The device includes, an electronically controllable fluid delivery element and a detector in communication with...
7169125 Method and a system for administering muscle relaxant to a patient  
The invention relates to a system for administering muscle relaxant to a patient. The system includes an infusion pump adapted for delivering said muscle relaxant to a patient, and a controller...
7151961 Treatment of movement disorders by brain stimulation  
Introducing one or more stimulating drugs to the brain and/or applying electrical stimulation to the brain is used to treat movement disorders. At least one implantable system control unit (SCU)...
7079886 Apparatus and method for programming a KVO phase and a first phase of an injection procedure as a flushing medium phase  
A fluid injection arrangement in the context of patient imaging systems, in which phases of contrast medium injection and flushing medium injection can be freely and selectably ordered as to make...
7070591 Vascular access port with physiological sensor  
A combined vascular access port and physiologic parameter monitoring device. The vascular access port and the monitoring device may be connected by a cooperative geometry. The vascular access port...
7047058 Apparatuses, systems and methods for extravasation detection  
An apparatus for the detection of extravasation in an imaging procedure includes at least a first source of energy to supply imaging energy to tissue in the vicinity of a site and at least a first...
7043295 Methods and apparatus for delivering a drug influencing appetite for treatment of eating disorders  
Methods and systems for treating patients suffering from eating disorders, e.g. obesity, through the dispensation of a drug by an implantable infusion pump (IIP) delivering drug into the cerebral...
7014624 Direct central nervous system catheter and temperature control system  
A central nervous system (CNS) catheter assembly adapted for use as a ventriculostomy catheter and a spinal catheter includes a catheter body defining at least one lumen therethrough having a drug...
7001372 Apparatus and method for treating body tissues with electricity or medicaments  
A therapeutic device and therapeutic method for delivering electrical energy or a medicament to a body tissue or organ utilizing ultrasonic vibration to cause a device implanted in the body tissue...
6976982 Flexible microchip devices for ophthalmic and other applications  
Microchip device arrays that can conform to a curved surface are provided for the controlled release or exposure of reservoir contents. The arrays comprise two or more microchip device elements,...
6969382 Method and apparatus for treating bodily tissues with medicinal substance  
A therapeutic device and therapeutic method for delivering electrical energy to a polymer containing a medicament that allows release of the medicament to a body tissue or organ. The device and...
6968226 Method and system for terminating an atrial arrhythmia  
A method and system is provided for responding, from internally within a patient, to an atrial arrhythmia in a heart including measuring from within the patient at least one electrocardiogram...
RE38879 Extravasation detection technique  
The technique for detecting extravasation during the injection of fluid into a patient involves the establishment of a baseline representing impedance at the zone of the injection prior to the...
6949081 Sensing and interactive drug delivery  
An interactive drug delivery system includes a drug delivery module, an optical probe, a local controller, and an optional central controller. The drug delivery module is constructed and arranged...
6890315 Method and apparatus for vein fluid removal in heart failure  
A method and apparatus for ultrafiltration of blood operating by removing blood from a peripheral blood vessel at a rate of less than two percent of total cardiac output of a patient, extracting...
6875196 Vestibular irrigator test system (VITS)  
The present invention provides automated control of aural irrigation by utilizing a process controller in connection with an irrigation supply unit and irrigation delivery unit. Sensors situated in...
6875195 Portable automatic insulin syringe device with blood sugar measuring function  
Disclosed is a portable automatic insulin syringe device adapted to enable an injection of liquid medicine for a prolonged time, including a syringe pump having a pump housing, further including a...
6832200 Apparatus for closed-loop pharmaceutical delivery  
A method of dispensing a pharmaceutical senses electrical signal representative of a physical condition of a patient and dispenses a therapeutic drug to the patient from a drug delivery appliance...
6824538 System for preventing sudden cardiac death by nerve sprouting from right stellate ganglion  
A system or apparatus is described for reducing the likelihood of the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmia in the heart of a patient having a myocardial infarction and an atrioventricular block,...
6773429 Microchip reservoir devices and facilitated corrosion of electrodes  
Methods and devices are provided for enhancing corrosion of an electrode in a biocompatible fluid. The method comprises (1) placing a primary electrode and a counter electrode in an...
6768920 System for delivering pain-reduction medication  
Methods, apparatuses and systems relating to the objective measurement of the subjective perception of pain in a subject are disclosed. In one aspect, a system for objectively measuring a...
6740072 System and method for providing closed loop infusion formulation delivery  
A system and method for providing closed loop infusion formulation delivery which accurately calculates a delivery amount based on a sensed biological state by adjusting an algorithm's programmable...
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