Abstract: A surgical system used to determine the presence of a vessel within a region (102) proximate to a working end (104) of a surgical instrument (106) includes at least one light emitter (110) disposed at the working end (104) of the surgical instrument (106), and at least one light sensor (112) disposed at the working end (104) of the surgical instrument (106) and configured to receive light emitted from the at least one light emitter (110) and reflected from the region (102), the at least one light sensor (112) adapted to generate a signal comprising a first pulsatile component and a second non-pulsatile component.

Abstract: A surgical system includes at least one light emitter generating light at a first intensity and an array of light sensors including a least one row of light sensors, individual light sensors in the row of light sensors adapted to generate a signal including a non-pulsatile component. The system also includes a controller coupled to the array of light sensors, the controller including an analyzer to determine the magnitudes of the non-pulsatile components at the individual light sensors in the row of light sensors, to determine if the non-pulsatile component transitions from a higher magnitude to a lower magnitude and from a lower magnitude to a higher magnitude, and if so, to determine if the first intensity should be changed to a second intensity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a combination of pregabalin and 1-(2-ethoxyethyl)-5-[ethyl(methyl)amino]-N-mesyl-7-[(4-methyl-2-pyridyl)amino]-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide, to pharmaceutical compositions containing the combination, and to the use of the combination in the treatment of pain.

Abstract: A system that may be used to generate documents and for broader uses such as assembling computer-processable components into computer-processable end products. In one form, the system is a document generation system having an assembly facility configured to be coupled to an origination platform; a knowledge base configured to be coupled to the assembly facility and to store objects in an object-relational hierarchy; and a content management system configured to be coupled to the knowledge base, where the content management system is configured to include an object and a rule. The system may be configured to interact with a knowledge base to create a first set of end products, each end product containing an object; apply precedence to the first set of end products; extract rules from the knowledge base; and assemble a second set of documents based upon applying precedence and rules.

Abstract: A data structure generation system. The system includes a knowledge base configured to store data structure components as objects in an object-relational hierarchy. Each object is configured to have a precedence, to include one or more rules, and to include content. The knowledge base may be coupled to a data structure assembly facility configured to retrieve one or more cross-referenced data structure components from a database. The one or more data structure components are configured to have a precedence level, and may be processed in a processor to generate a tree having a root node. The tree may be processed beginning at the root node, and objects of low precedence may be overidden with objects of high precedence.

Abstract: A knowledge base configured to store data structure components as objects in an object-relational hierarchy, each object configurable to have precedence, to include one or more rules, and to include content. The knowledge base may be coupled to a data structure assembly facility capable of retrieving one or more data structure components from the knowledge base and generate a tree having a root node, processing the tree beginning at the root node, and overriding objects of low precedence with objects of higher precedence.

Abstract: A method of generating documents. In one embodiment the method involves establishing an architecture for a set of rules to be used in documents that consist of a plurality of components and creating a dynamic document structure that can resolve to one or more instances of a document and that is configured to include one or more rules based on the architecture for a set of rules. The architecture for a set of rules may be established by creating a schema having a conditions element, a choose element, an iterators element, a functions elements, and an external interface element that is configured to be resolved into a value. The method may also be configured to create a static document structure that can be resolved to one or more instances of a document that includes at least some content that is determined before and some content that is unchanged during and after a resolution process.