36 results about "Pregnant patient" patented technology

The invention comprises of a device that allows health care providers to position the body of a patient for progression of labor, for assistance in fetal resuscitation, and for other medical procedures. The device has inflatable chambers that assist the labor and delivery health care provider in turning a patient onto her right or left side while laying in bed. An inflatable positioning pad is used to further assist with the turning of a patient and / or with the shifting of a patient toward the head or the foot of the bed as needed. This device and method will allow turning to be done frequently, rapidly and safely, especially in pregnant patients with epidurals, that are overweight, or that otherwise have difficulty moving on their own.

A combinational fetal heart rate monitor and uterine activity measuring device for use on a pregnant patient. The fetal heart rate and uterine activity monitor comprising a plurality of electrodes disposed to be attached on the abdomen of the patient and an ultrasound transducers disposed to be attached on the abdomen of the patient. An energy source is operable to generate an excitation signal and the energy source is connected to a multiplexer which is connected between the plurality of electrodes and the ultrasound transducer, the multiplexer being selectively positioned to direct the excitation signal from the energy source to either the electrode or the ultrasound transducer. An amplifier connected to the energy source compares the excitation signal to the excitation signal after it passes through the abdomen of the patient. The signal from the amplifier is demodulated and processed to calculate physiological parameter based on the change in the excitation signal.

Featured are apparatuses for measuring bioimpendence of tissues of the cervix, more specifically the mammalian cervix. Also featured are methods for examining the tissues of the cervix for clinical or diagnostic purposes such as during routine gynecological examinations to determine early onset of labor in pregnant patients or to assess such tissues for the presence of abnormalities such as cancerous lesions in both pregnant and non-pregnant women. Also featured are methods for treating onset of early or pre-term labor that embody such devices, apparatuses and methods of the present invention. Also featured are systems embodying such devices, apparatuses and / or methods, where such systems preferably are configured to provide diagnostic and / or clinical information to further assist the diagnostician or clinician in diagnosing and / or examining pregnant or non-pregnant patients.

A sampling device adapted for transcervical sampling of biological materials from a pregnant patient comprising: an elongate insertion tube (4) having a first end (5) adapted for insertion through the external orifice (external os) of said patient's cervix and a second end (6) including a handle means (7) for manipulating said tube; a measuring means for determining the position of said first end of said tube within said cervix, wherein said first end (5) includes a sampling head (9, 14) adapted to collect biological material including cells, mucus and biological fluids, and wherein said measuring means is adapted to determine the extent of insertion and transcervical position of said first end to optimise the transcervical sampling site.

Featured are apparatuses for measuring bioimpendence of tissues of the cervix, more specifically the mammalian cervix. Also featured are methods for examining the tissues of the cervix for clinical or diagnostic purposes such as during routine gynecological examinations to determine early onset of labor in pregnant patients or to assess such tissues for the presence of abnormalities such as cancerous lesions in both pregnant and non-pregnant women. Also featured are methods for treating onset of early or pre-term labor that embody such devices, apparatuses and methods of the present invention. Also featured are systems embodying such devices, apparatuses and / or methods, where such systems preferably are configured to provide diagnostic and / or clinical information to further assist the diagnostician or clinician in diagnosing and / or examining pregnant or non-pregnant patients.

The present invention provides nucleotide and amino acid sequences that identify and encode a new protein with homology to pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A). We denote this protein PAPP-A2. The cDNA encoding PAPP-A2 was derived from human placenta. The present invention also provides for antisense molecules to the nucleotide sequences which encode PAPP-A2, expression vectors for the production of purified PAPP-A2, antibodies capable of binding specifically to PAPP-A2, hybridization probes or oligonucleotides for the detection of PAPP-A2-enoding nucleotide sequences, genetically engineered host cells for the expression of PAPP-A2, use of the protein to produce antibodies capable of binding specifically to the protein, methods for screening for pathologies in pregnant and non-pregnant patients that are based on detection of PAPP-A2 antigen in human body fluids or PAPP-A2-encoding nucleic acid molecules, use of the protein to screen for agents that alter the protease activity of PAPP-A2, use of the protein as a therapeutic target for such agents, and use of the protein as a therapeutic agent in relevant pathological states. Methods for screening for altered focal proliferation states in pregnant and / or non-pregnant patients, which include detecting levels of PAPP-A2, are also described. The present invention also provides the identification of a natural substrate of PAPP-A2, insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-5.

A sampling device adapted for transcervical sampling of biological materials from a pregnant patient comprising:an elongate insertion tube (4) having a first end (5) adapted for insertion through the external orifice (external os) of said patient's cervix and a second end (6) including a handle means (7) for manipulating said tube;a measuring means for determining the position of said first end of said tube within said cervix,wherein said first end (5) includes a sampling head (9, 14) adapted to collect biological material including cells, mucus and biological fluids, and wherein said measuring means is adapted to determine the extent of insertion and transcervical position of said first end to optimise the transcervical sampling site.

A system and method for monitoring and estimating the blood pressure of a pregnant patient that modifies the blood pressure estimating algorithm when the patient is pre-eclamptic. The level of carbon monoxide within a patient's bloodstream or exhaled breath can be analyzed to determine whether a pregnant patient is pre-eclamptic. After the patient has been diagnosed as pre-eclamptic, the NIBP monitoring system adjusts its algorithm for estimating the patient's blood pressure to compensate for the physical changes that occur in the patient during pre-eclampsia. The adjusted blood pressure estimates calculated by the NIBP monitoring system can be calculated using different adjustment techniques and methods and are displayed on the NIBP monitor.

The invention discloses an ante partum new-born baby risk predicting method for a heart disease pregnant patient, a system and a medium. The method comprises the steps of performing data screening andcharacteristic extraction on pre-acquired medical data of a congenital heart disease pregnant patient and a new-born baby, and acquiring an influence factor which corresponds with a production risk;performing single-factor logistic regression analysis on the influence factor, and screening all variables with probability p smaller than a preset threshold; performing multiple-factor logistic regression analysis on all the screened variables, and establishing a logistic regression model; inputting a left ventricular ejection fraction, a left atrial diameter, a left ventricular diameter, an ascending aorta inner diameter, pulmonary artery systolic pressure and pulmonary artery average pressure into the logistic regression model, thereby obtaining an ante partum new-born baby risk evaluationresult of a to-be-predicted target.

A system and method for monitoring and estimating the blood pressure of a pregnant patient that modifies the blood pressure estimating algorithm when the patient is pre-eclamptic. The level of carbon monoxide within a patient's bloodstream or exhaled breath can be analyzed to determine whether a pregnant patient is pre-eclamptic. After the patient has been diagnosed as pre-eclamptic, the NIBP monitoring system adjusts its algorithm for estimating the patient's blood pressure to compensate for the physical changes that occur in the patient during pre-eclampsia. The adjusted blood pressure estimates calculated by the NIBP monitoring system can be calculated using different adjustment techniques and methods and are displayed on the NIBP monitor.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a traditional Chinese medicine for treating constipation-predominant reflux esophagitis and belongs to the technical field of preparation methods of traditional Chinese medicines. At present, bismuth potassium citrate is usually employed for treating the constipation-predominant reflux esophagitis, and the contraindication is that allergies, patients with severe renal impairment and pregnant patients are disabled. The technical scheme of the preparation method comprises: taking senna leaf, cape jasmine fruit, pagodatree pod, garden burnet root, Chinese arborvitae twig, immature bitter orange, officinal magnolia bark, longstamen onion bulb, areca peel, peach seed, Chinese angelica, figwort root, black sesame, hemp fruit, Chinese dwarf cherry seed, honey, apricot seed, coffee senna seed, common alstonia bark or leaf, common lophatherum herb, mung bean, mongolian dandelion herb, stonecrop, shortstalk slimtop meadowrue root, breynia fruticosa, small-leaved desmodium, physalis alkekengi, corydalis saxicola bunting, uniflower swisscentaury root, olive, lemmaphyllum microphyllum presl, creeping rostellularia herb, gamboges, potentilla discolor, rhubarb and liquoric root; soaking the thirty six traditional Chinese medicines into water, and decocting by mild fire, wherein the decocted soup is the traditional Chinese medicine for treating the constipation-predominant reflux esophagitis. The preparation method of the traditional Chinese medicine for treating the constipation-predominant reflux esophagitis has the advantages that the prepared traditional Chinese medicine liquid is small in side effect, short in course of treatment and high in cure rate.

A fetal phonocardiogram system featuring an array of acoustic sensors designed to be temporarily affixed to a pregnant patient to convert the vibrations associated with a fetal heartbeat and / or fetal movement into a signal. The signal can be amplified and transferred to a processing element for filtering non-fetal sounds in order to resolve the fetal heartbeat. The filtered signal can be used in conjunction with an array of multiple acoustic sensors to locate a fetal position relative to the array.

The invention relates to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine, and particularly discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition used for treating infertility. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from the following raw herbal materials by weight: 6 to 14 parts of radix curcumae, 1 to 5 parts of zinnober, 4 to 7 parts of Chinese angelica, 3 to 6 parts of carthamus tinctorius, 1 to 3 parts of Chinese wolfberry, and 3 to 8 parts of radix salviae miltiorrhizae. Clinical application shows that the traditional Chinese medicine composition has obvious curative effect in treating female sterility caused by unbalanced Qi and blood, genital tract inflammatory diseases, tubal obstruction, Qi-stagnation, blood stasis and the like, and aphoria caused by spontaneous abortion and the like. Taking the traditional Chinese medicine composition, a patient can be in a favorable environment of getting pregnant, so that the pregnancy probability is improved; the physical function, the immunity and the like of a pregnant patient can also be improved, so as to reduce spontaneous abortion.

Uterine activity tools and methods of use thereof. The uterine activity tools of this invention are designed to provide clinicians with information to evaluate uterine activity of a pregnant patient utilizing a fetal monitor with a tocodynamometer external pressure sensor (“TOCO”) and / or an intrauterine pressure catheter (“IUPC”). The tool of this invention displays vital information for assessment and documentation of uterine activity including date, time, mode, contraction frequency, contraction duration, contraction intensity, resting tone, relax time, calculated Montevideo units, and number of contractions in a selected time period.

The invention comprises of a device that allows health care providers to position the body of a patient for progression of labor, for assistance in fetal resuscitation, and for other medical procedures. The device has inflatable chambers that assist the labor and delivery health care provider in turning a patient onto her right or left side while laying in bed. An inflatable positioning pad is used to further assist with the turning of a patient and / or with the shifting of a patient toward the head or the foot of the bed as needed. This device and method will allow turning to be done frequently, rapidly and safely, especially in pregnant patients with epidurals, that are overweight, or that otherwise have difficulty moving on their own.

A remote labor and delivery service project provides details captured from one or more encounters. Essentially, it is the assembly of records aggregated over the course of the duration of the patient's visits but viewable remotely by a secure portal. The Labor and Delivery user will be able to select a patient from a group of pregnant women and select a specific pregnant patient. In some embodiments, the provider will be able to view the patient's prenatal flow sheets, prenatal lab, and antepartum summary.

The invention relates to nutritional supplements and a preparation method thereof. The nutritional supplements consist of 100-800 micrograms of vitamin A, 5-20 micrograms of vitamin B12, 1.5-10 micrograms of vitamin D and 5-150 milligrams of vitamin E, and have the effects of preventing and protecting against osteoporosis; and the nutritional supplements are especially suitable for pregnant patients. The composition, namely the nutritional supplements, provided by the invention can be prepared into nutritious products or health foods, and can be used for preparing pharmaceuticals.

The invention relates to a device convenient for a bedridden assisted reproductive pregnant patient for B ultrasound examination and belongs to the technical field of medical devices. The invention solves the problems that an examining table used when the hospitalized assisted reproductive pregnant patient is subjected to the B ultrasound examination has single function and is not convenient for the assisted reproductive pregnant patient lying in the bed to be subjected to the B ultrasound examination; in the operation process, the time and the labor are wasted, the assisted reproductive pregnant patient lying in the bed also feel very uncomfortable, and the patient's condition can be aggravated. The invention adopts the technical scheme that the upper ends of two rotating blocks (11) are respectively and fixedly connected with the examining table (3) with a right handle (16) and a left handle (19), the lifting ends of two hydraulic lifters (7) are respectively hinged to the lower ends of the rotating blocks (11) through first pin shafts (12), and the upper ends of two second rotating blocks (14) are respectively and fixedly connected with the examining table (3). The device has the advantage that when the device is in use, the time is shortened, and the labor is reduced, and the turnover process required when the assisted reproductive pregnant patient lying in the bed in the need of the B ultrasound examination is greatly facilitated.

The invention discloses an ante partum new-born baby risk predicting method for a heart disease pregnant patient, a system and a medium. The method comprises the steps of performing data screening andcharacteristic extraction on pre-acquired medical data of a congenital heart disease pregnant patient and a new-born baby, and acquiring an influence factor which corresponds with a production risk;performing single-factor logistic regression analysis on the influence factor, and screening all variables with probability p smaller than a preset threshold; performing multiple-factor logistic regression analysis on all the screened variables, and establishing a logistic regression model; inputting a left ventricular ejection fraction, a left atrial diameter, a left ventricular diameter, an ascending aorta inner diameter, pulmonary artery systolic pressure and pulmonary artery average pressure into the logistic regression model, thereby obtaining an ante partum new-born baby risk evaluationresult of a to-be-predicted target.

The invention discloses a method for treating infertility by using traditional Chinese medicine compound therapy. Firstly, a traditional Chinese medicine liquid prepared according to an enema medicineformula is used for enema, a patient is advised to evacuate the bladder before the enema, a side-lying position is taken during the enema, a disposable enema tube is inserted into the anus by 10 cm,then the medicine liquid at a temperature of 37 DEG C is poured into an enema bag to be slowly injected into the anus within 15 min, the patient needs to lie in bed for more than half an hour, and theenema is carried out once a day; meanwhile, one dose of a traditional Chinese medicine liquid decocted by an oral medicine formula is orally taken when the medicine liquid is warm once a day in the morning and once in the evening for cooperative treatment; and 10 days of treatment of the two medicine liquids are taken as a treatment course period, the treatment is stopped in the menstrual period,a non-pregnant patient is treated in the first treatment course period, an original scheme is applied for treatment from the second day after menstruation so as to enter a second treatment course period, and the patient can be cured or improved after continuous treatment for 3-6 treatment courses. The medicine liquids prepared by combining traditional Chinese medicine compound therapy with various traditional Chinese medicinal materials have the advantages of blood circulation promoting, blood stasis removing, heat clearing, detoxifying, quick effect taking, remarkable curative effect, safetyand no toxic or side effect.

Systems and methods for producing cervical ripening in a pregnant patient. The method includes generating an electrical stimulation current between about 0.01 milliamperes and about 6 milliamperes using a current unit, coupling an electrode probe to the current unit, and inserting the electrode probe transvaginally so that at least one electrode of the electrode probe is in contact with the patient's cervix. The method also includes applying the electrical stimulation current from the current unit through the electrode probe and the at least one electrode to the patient's cervix to produce ripening of the patient's cervix.

Provided are methods of treating a patient diagnosed with Fabry disease. Certain methods treat a pregnant patient with a therapeutically effective dose of migalastat or a salt thereof. Other methods treat a patient of childbearing potential with a therapeutically effective dose of migalastat or a salt thereof. Also described are the successful outcomes of pregnancies during which the pregnant patient is treated with migalastat.

The invention relates to a device convenient for a bedridden assisted reproductive pregnant patient for B ultrasound examination and belongs to the technical field of medical devices. The invention solves the problems that an examining table used when the hospitalized assisted reproductive pregnant patient is subjected to the B ultrasound examination has single function and is not convenient for the assisted reproductive pregnant patient lying in the bed to be subjected to the B ultrasound examination; in the operation process, the time and the labor are wasted, the assisted reproductive pregnant patient lying in the bed also feel very uncomfortable, and the patient's condition can be aggravated. The invention adopts the technical scheme that the upper ends of two rotating blocks (11) are respectively and fixedly connected with the examining table (3) with a right handle (16) and a left handle (19), the lifting ends of two hydraulic lifters (7) are respectively hinged to the lower ends of the rotating blocks (11) through first pin shafts (12), and the upper ends of two second rotating blocks (14) are respectively and fixedly connected with the examining table (3). The device has the advantage that when the device is in use, the time is shortened, and the labor is reduced, and the turnover process required when the assisted reproductive pregnant patient lying in the bed in the need of the B ultrasound examination is greatly facilitated.

The invention discloses a disease medical diagnosis and treatment device for obstetrics and gynecology department. The disease medical diagnosis and treatment device comprises a base, a rotating seat,a leaning plate and a headrest, wherein the top end of the base is movably connected with the rotating seat; the back surface of the rotating seat is hinged to the leaning plate; a cabinet body is arranged at the left side of the base; a third inner groove is formed in an inner cavity of the rotating seat; a rack is arranged in an inner cavity of the third inner groove in an inserted way; the lower surface of the rack is engaged with a second gear; an accommodating groove is formed inside the rotating seat; telescopic rods are arranged at two sides of the bottom end of the accommodating grove; a first spring is arranged between seat discs at the bottom end of the accommodating groove; a fixing rod is fixedly arranged at the lower surface of the seat disc; a second through groove is formedinside the rack. The flat lying process of pregnant patients is divided; through stable structure transmission, the workload of medical care personnel is greatly reduced; in the process, the injure on the pregnant patients cannot be caused.

The invention discloses a multifunctional automatic control platform device for medical treatment and life of a pregnant patient, and belongs to the technical field of medical appliance devices. A control platform which is used by a pregnant patient in the hospital at present is single in function, and cannot efficiently rescue the pregnant patient as quickly as possible when the pregnant patient is rescued and treated; and in addition, the pregnant patient lying in the bed can have a meal, read newspaper, read a book and learn or even work conveniently by virtue of a computer. According to the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, an arc-shaped support plate (22) is fixed at the other end of a thread support rod (21); a fixing plate (8) is fixedly arranged on a medical treatment and life control platform (3) provided with a universal wheel (2) with a brake; and the fixed end of a hydraulic horizontal mover (9) is fixedly connected with the fixing plate (8). The multifunctional automatic control platform device for medical treatment and life has the advantages that medical operation and timely rescue of the pregnant patient are greatly facilitated by use of the multifunctional automatic control platform device; and the multifunctional automatic control platform device can achieve automatic multi-degree-of-freedom operation control, fills market gaps and can meet the urgent needs of the hospitals and the pregnant patient.

The invention provides an automatic operating table device used for a bedridden pregnant patient in medical treatment life, and belongs to the technical field of medical equipment. An existing operating table for the pregnant patient who live in a hospital for preventing miscarriage is single in function, the bedridden pregnant patient cannot be rescued and treated conveniently, and even the bedridden pregnant patient cannot be rescued efficiently as quick as possible; furthermore, the pregnant patient lying on a sickbed cannot eat, read papers, read books, study, and even use a computer for working conveniently. According to the technical scheme, a fixing plate (8) is fixed to a frame fixing table (1) with a braking universal wheel (2), the fixing end of a hydraulic horizontal mover (9) is fixedly connected with the fixing plate (8), the horizontal moving end of the hydraulic horizontal mover (9) is hinged to the fixing end of a hydraulic lifting device (7) through a pin shaft (10). The automatic operating table device has the advantages that a bedridden patient can eat, read the papers, read the books, study, and use the computer conveniently.