Abstract: A surgical infant diaper. The surgical infant diaper includes a flexible body having an interior layer and an exterior layer, wherein the flexible body further includes a front portion, a rear portion, and a central portion therebetween. The flexible body is movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the closed position an upper opening and a pair of leg openings are defined. A central aperture extends through the front portion, wherein the central aperture is positioned to receive a penis of the wearer therethrough.

Abstract: An oxygenator (10) for an extracorporeal ventilation system comprises a gas passage and a blood passage arranged to allow gas exchange of an oxygenation gas supply with blood via a gas-blood interface (34). The gas passage leads from a gas inlet zone (28) via the gas-blood interface (34) to a gas exhaust zone (40). The blood passage leads from a blood inlet (12) via the gas-blood interface (34) to a blood outlet (14). The oxygenator comprises a supply gas distribution arrangement (26, 28A, 28B). This allows the oxygenation gas supply to be modulated differently for different interface regions of the gas-blood interface. The oxygenator can be used to remove or reduce the formation of gaseous microemboli bubbles.

Abstract: A bypass device can be implanted into a body tissue to provide fluid channels through the body tissue. The bypass device includes an open tubular base, and a plurality of pronged features attached to the open tubular base, the pronged features being reconfigurable from a first position to a second position. In the first position the pronged features extend longitudinally along a plane of the open tubular base, and the pronged features are reconfigurable to the second position by flexing the pronged features relative to the tubular base, such that in the second position the pronged features are configured for insertion through the body tissue. The pronged features may be configured as opposing arrow-shaped tangs that are flexed to form tent structures that are insertable through the body tissue.

Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for providing negative pressure wound therapy to multiple wounds are disclosed. In some embodiments, presence of blockage in one or more fluid flow paths connecting a negative pressure source to one or more dressings can be performed. Determination of a blockage can be performed based on comparing one or more pressure measurements to at least one threshold. The at least one threshold can be determined based on detected capacities of the one or more dressings.

Abstract: Embodiments of negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a housing enclosing a source of negative pressure and a controller configured to operate the source of negative pressure to provide negative pressure wound therapy to a wound. The housing can also include a communications controller configured to wirelessly transmit and receive data using a communications antenna positioned on an antenna board. The antenna board can be mounted to a communications board that include the communications controller. The antenna board can be electrically connected to the communications board via a single connector on the communications board. The antenna's ground plane can be positioned on the communications board.

Abstract: An improved eye drop dispenser apparatus having a suspension frame or tip configured for retention of an eye drop. The eye drop is suspended on the suspension frame by surface tension and adhesion forces of the liquid, with the suspension frame held proximate to the eye of a user or patient. The eye drop contacts the eye, with the surface tension causing the drop to transfer to the eye. The dispenser apparatus is configured to connect to an eye drop reservoir either by positioning into the opening in the eye drop bottle in a neck of the bottle, by positioning over the exterior of the neck of the eye drop reservoir, or by positioning over a pre-existing dispenser tip of the eye drop reservoir.

Abstract: A syringe adapter is provided. The adapter includes a housing having a first end and a second end positioned opposite the first end. The housing may include a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first end of the housing can include a connector configured to be secured to a syringe barrel. The adapter also includes a cannula positioned within the housing and a seal arrangement including a membrane positioned within the housing and movable within the housing. The first portion of the housing can be connected to the second portion via axial and radial interference between the first portion and the second portion of the housing.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is ureteral stent. The ureteral stent includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a middle portion. The proximal end includes a retention feature having a coiled shape. The distal end is opposite the proximal end. The middle portion is between the proximal end and the distal end.

Abstract: An absorbent article that improves contact efficiency between a deodorant substance and an odor. The problem is solved by an absorbent article including an absorber and a liquid impervious resin film covering an outside of the absorber, in which a cellulose nanofiber layer is attached directly to a member outside the liquid impervious resin film, and the cellulose nanofiber layer can come into contact with an odor in an atmosphere outside the absorbent article.

Abstract: A flow control device for a compressible bottle may include a reservoir, the reservoir comprising an ophthalmic formulation disposed therein, the ophthalmic formulation comprising an ophthalmic agent and a preservative; a reservoir interface, disposed at a mouth of the reservoir, the reservoir interface comprising one or more apertures, the one or more apertures in the reservoir interface fluidically connecting an interior of the reservoir and an exterior of the reservoir; a nozzle, the nozzle comprising: an outlet and a nozzle cap, the nozzle cap comprising one or more apertures, the one or more apertures in the nozzle cap fluidically connecting the outlet and a reservoir-facing surface of the nozzle; and an axis of rotation, wherein rotation of the nozzle about the axis of rotation relative to the reservoir aligns the one or more apertures in the reservoir interface with the one or more apertures in the nozzle cap.

Abstract: A device for providing a droplet of a liquid stored in an interior of a vial is disclosed that includes a support body and a resilient dome portion mounted to the support body to form a chamber having air, with the dome portion being configured to create an air flow when activated by compression. The support body includes a vial seat, a nozzle, and air flow and transfer conduits. The support body is arranged, when the vial is received by the vial seat, such that the air flow conduit establishes an air connection between the vial interior and the chamber, the transfer conduit establishes a fluid connection between the vial and the nozzle, and, upon activation of the dome portion, the air flow delivers air into the vial that causes liquid to be transferred from the vial to the nozzle through the transfer conduit.

Abstract: Flexible receptacles and flexible conduits for bodily fluids are disclosed. The receptacles and conduits provide comfortable, user-friendly unisex flexible bodily waste collection systems that improve the accuracy and convenience when collecting urine streams from female users. One bodily waste collection system may include a cup, a bowl, a tube, a pipe, a fitting, a valve, or any combination thereof. A flexible receptacle or conduit includes an open top defined by a flexible annular rim, a base, and flexible sidewalls extending between the top and base. The flexible receptacle is a urine collection cup having an annular rim. The rim is deformable to an elliptical shape when pressure is applied there against (for example, by squeezing), thereby allowing the rim to fit between the labia majora and minora of the user.

Abstract: A method and system for treating Alzheimer's disease wherein blood, spinal fluid or brain cavity fluid is circulated into and outside of the body by means of blood pumps or other external circulatory systems. While passing through the pumping system, the amyloid plaques and tau tangles are filtered from the fluids and returned to the body lowering the protein levels, and in the process, reduce symptoms. In one embodiment a patient's blood is filtered using a pump to circulate the blood from the patient to the collection vessel where an electrical current will cause anything that has a positive charge to be attracted to a cathode plate suspended in the collection vessel for later disposal. In an alternate embodiment a patient's brain and/or spinal fluid a pump operates to circulate a flushing fluid. The pump will circulate the solution from the collection vessel to the patient.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Donning-Ratio from about 1.0 and about 3 to make the article easy to apply and to comfortably maintain the article in place on the wearer.

Abstract: A method of using a catheter assembly for inserting in a fluid filled space in a body includes providing a main body having a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is positioned within the fluid filled space. The second end portion is adjusted to extend outwardly from the fluid filled space when the first end portion is positioned within the fluid filled space. A catheter tip is connected to the second end portion of the main body. The catheter tip includes a housing having a cavity defined therein and a rotating element positioned within the fluid filled space. The rotating element is rotated within the cavity of the housing to impart movement of the first end portion of the main body within the fluid filled space.

Abstract: An absorbent article 1 includes a three-dimensionally shaped topsheet 2 having projections 24 and recesses and a backsheet 3. Opposed end flaps 1E in longitudinal end portions are formed of at least the topsheet 2 and the backsheet 3. In at least one of the longitudinal end portions, a plurality of the projections 24 of the topsheet 2 protrude outward in the longitudinal direction X beyond the end edge el of the backsheet.

Abstract: The present invention presents a novel oxygenator of the invention provides a revolutionary engineering design and management of the flow regime in a completely different way from the existing and accepted regime in the field of oxygenators, that further lower the risk levels associated with the use of oxygenators and reduces the manufacturing cost. The revolutionary technology is aimed to divert the world of blood oxygenation from the use of technology that relies on a fiber membrane or gas bubbles and causes substantial damage to the patient's blood, towards the use of technology that allows the exchange of gases without a membrane at all and is aimed to reduces risks and improves patient outcome.

Abstract: A drainage catheter system comprising a catheter having an elongate body \configured for insertion into an organ or cavity of a patient and a hub configured for coupling with a longitudinal shearing device and the first end of the catheter and movable over the elongate body of the catheter. A locking stay suture extends through the elongate body of the catheter. The length of the elongate body of the catheter can be adjusted by sliding the hub coupled to the longitudinal shearing device along the longitudinal axis of the catheter, and then creating a longitudinal cut in the catheter through which the proximal end of the locking stay suture can be removed and secured, thereby enabling the excess catheter tubing to be removed by cutting and allowing the base to rest flush against the patient's body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum sponge unit for use in human or animal bodies, comprising a fluid collecting member, in particular a sponge unit, and a fluid communication member, in particular a drainage tube, which is disposed at least partially in the fluid collecting member and is connected in fluidic communication to the fluid collecting member. In order to improve known devices, the inventions proposed developing the vacuum sponge unit such that the fluid collecting member has a channel for guiding a guide member, in particular a guide wire, and/or a delivery member, in particular a probe unit and/or an endoscope, through the fluid collecting member.

Abstract: A tissue collection and processing system for collecting bone fragments and tissue aspirated from a bone. The tissue collection and processing system includes a collection vessel, a collection vessel cap, a processing piston, a first tubing and a fluid withdrawal mechanism. The collection vessel has an opening formed therein to receive bone fragments and tissue aspirated from the bone. The collection vessel cap is capable of engaging the collection vessel to substantially seal the opening. The collection vessel cap or the collection vessel has a first port. The processing piston has an upper surface and a lower surface. The processing piston has a connection port and a bore. The connection port is proximate the upper surface. The bore is fluidly connected to the connection port and extends toward the lower surface. The processing piston has a density that is less than a density of fluid in the aspirated bone fragments and tissue.