Abstract: A locking adapter configured to removably attach a surgical tool to a surgical handpiece unit can include a first coupling portion having a first hole and a second coupling portion having a second hole. The first and second holes can receive a portion of a surgical instrument, such as a cutting element (e.g., a burr or blade). The locking adapter can have a first position where the first hole is not aligned with the second hole and a second position where the first hole is aligned with the second hole. When the locking adapter is in the second position and the portion of the surgical instrument is received within the first and second holes, the first coupling portion can apply a first force on the portion and the second coupling portion can apply a second force on the portion, the first and second forces having different directions.

Abstract: Surgical instruments for use in a surgical robot are provided herein. The instruments are preferably part of a translational instrument interface and are removably coupled to the surgical robot. In one aspect, the translational instrument interface has a slave hub mounted on a distal end of the slave unit, a sterile shield insertable within the slave hub, and an instrument having an end-effector for contacting tissue insertable within the sterile shield. The instrument may be disposable after a single use. The handle of the surgical robot is preferably coupled to the translational instrument interface such that actuation at the handle causes movement of the end-effector for performing surgery.

Abstract: A method may include positioning a catheter, including at least one electrode, within an esophagus such that the electrode is proximate to at least one sympathetic ganglion. The methods may further include recruiting the sympathetic ganglion via an electrical signal, monitoring the recruitment of the sympathetic ganglion, and, based on the monitoring the recruitment of the sympathetic ganglion, adjusting the electrical signal from the at least one electrode.

Abstract: A medical implant information reporting device and method of charging the same, the reporting device having an integrated harvesting coil configured to couple energy from an electromagnetic field of a source coil to induce current in the harvesting coil, are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes electrically coupling the harvesting coil to the source coil to charge the medical implant information reporting device, the source coil being sized to be removably disposed one of on and around the torso of a patient and configured to inductively power a medical implant about which the medical implant information reporting device reports.

Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and devices for brain stimulation and monitoring. Brain stimulation may be provided to enhance slow wave and spindle synchrony. Such stimulation may provide increased memory consolidation. Furthermore, brain stimulation modalities may provide enhanced sleep and awakening. For example, transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain stimulation may enhance sleep quality. Moreover, one or more markers characterizing unconsciousness are may be identified based on changes in measured power densities or spectra. Further still, the above described modalities of brain stimulation may be implemented in an open-loop or closed loop manner. Brain state parameters may be generated for building models of the brain based on determined synchrony patterns between slow waves and spindles. The models may be used to determine a mediation procedure for adjusting the intensity of slow wave oscillations to enhance slow wave and spindle synchrony.

Abstract: Flexible semi-hermetic implantable medical device (IMD) structure, including a flexible device body, at least one flexible lead and at least one respective transition unit, for respectively coupling each flexible lead to the flexible device body, the flexible device body including a plurality of hermetically sealed components, at least one electrical cable harness and an external flexible polymer structure, each one of the hermetically sealed components including at least one hermetically sealed electrical connection and at least some of the hermetically sealed components including at least one separation dome, the electrical cable harness for electrically and mechanically coupling the plurality of hermetically sealed components together and the external flexible polymer structure for encapsulating the hermetically sealed components, the electrical cable harness and the respective transition unit.

Abstract: Embodiments herein include medical systems, devices, and methods for assessing the health status of a patient. In an embodiment, a method includes evaluating the presence of volatile organic compounds in a breath or gas sample of the patient with a plurality of graphene sensors to generate volatile organic compound data, wherein the plurality of graphene sensors include sensors that are specific for different volatile organic compounds. The method can further include collecting data regarding the patient's sympathetic nervous activity. The method can further include combining the volatile organic compound data with the collected data regarding the patient's sympathetic nervous activity to form a combined data set. The method can further include matching the combined data set against one or more data patterns to find the best match, the best match indicating the health status of the patient. Other embodiments are also included herein.

Abstract: A method and device are provided for conditioning a sleep signal from a sleep sensor for a sleep monitor. A sleep sensor is configured to sense a physiological signal, such as a cardiac or respiratory signal from a sleeping mammal, such as a human, e.g. an infant or a baby. If the mammal exhibits also (gross) body movement during his sleep, the sensor signal may be clipped. The method and device provide a conditioning of the sleep signal by providing an estimation of the sleep signal instead of the conditioned sleep signal itself when the sensor signal is clipping.

Abstract: Provided is a power supply circuit that supplies electric power to a biological signal measurement circuit configured to detect, with an electrode set in contact with a human body, a biological signal which is a weak electric signal emitted by the human body. The power supply circuit includes a capacitance element accumulating the electric power, and a circuit switch coupled between the capacitance element and an external power supply for supplying electric power to the capacitance element, and configured to switch, not through a state where the external power supply and the biological signal measurement circuit are electrically coupled, a first state where the capacitance element establishes electrical continuity with the external power supply and is enabled to be charged, and a second state where the capacitance element establishes electrical continuity with the biological signal measurement circuit and is enabled to supply power to the biological signal measurement circuit.