Abstract: Provided is an implantable biosensor including an intermediate layer; a first electrode layer provided on one surface of the intermediate layer and including a first electrode configured to react with a bio material and an auxiliary electrode electrically connected to the first electrode; and a second electrode layer provided on another surface of the intermediate layer to face the first electrode layer and including a second electrode operating as a reference electrode.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems that analyze one or more analytes in a fluid, such as breath, emitted from a user. The methods and systems can detect one or more analytes in the breath of a user to provide alerts in response to discrepancies in medications taken by a user, verify one or more medications taken by a user, manage a medication regime of a user, and various other functions disclosed herein.

Abstract: An automated urine-output-measurement system can include single-patient equipment and multi-patient equipment. The single-patient equipment can include a urinary catheter and a urine-collection system. The urine-collection system can include drainage tubing and a drainage receptacle. The multi-patient equipment can include a urine monitor. The urine monitor can include a housing having a cavity configured to house the drainage receptacle, a urine-measurement means for measuring urine-output into the drainage receptacle, and an integrated display screen configured to display patient information including measurements of the urine output. A method of the automated urine-output-measurement system can include placing the drainage receptacle in the urine monitor of the automated urine-output-measurement system, and confirming a volume of urine in the drainage receptacle with that indicated on the urine monitor once a patient has produced urine.

Abstract: A medical device for detecting at least one analyte in a body fluid is disclosed.

Abstract: A medical device for detecting at least one analyte in a body fluid is disclosed.

Abstract: A medical device for detecting at least one analyte in a body fluid is disclosed.

Abstract: A method for processing a neural measurement obtained in the presence of artifact, in order to detect whether a neural response is present in the neural measurement. A neural measurement is obtained from one or more sense electrodes. The neural measurement is correlated against a filter template, the filter template comprising at least three half cycles of an alternating waveform, amplitude modulated by a window. From an output of the correlating, it is determined whether a neural response is present in the neural measurement.

Abstract: A method, system, apparatus, and/or device with interdigitated miniaturized electrodes. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a band configured to extend at least partially around a body part of a user, the body part including a dermal layer; a user interface coupled to the band; a processing device coupled to the band; a miniaturized impedance sensor integrated into the band and positioned in the band to be pressed against the dermal layer, the miniaturized impedance sensor comprising a row of interdigitated miniaturized electrodes alternating between a miniaturized electrode of a first set of miniaturized electrodes and another miniaturized electrode of a second set of miniaturized electrodes; and an electrical circuit embedded in the band interconnecting the user interface, the processing device, or the miniaturized impedance sensor.

Abstract: Continuous core body temperature measurements are made during hypothermic operations, where the core body temperature of the patient is lowered to reduce swelling. Caregivers monitor the patient's core body temperature to prevent damage that can occur to the patient if the patient's core body temperature becomes too low. To accurately determine the core body temperature of the patient, a temperature monitoring system measures the temperature at or near the surface of the patient and through at least a portion of a thermal block at multiple locations.

Abstract: A shoe-type device and a method of controlling the shoe-type device are disclosed. The shoe-type device includes a vibrator configured to generate a vibration, a pressure sensor disposed under the vibrator and configured to measure a pressure, and a controller configured to control an intensity of the vibration to be generated by the vibrator based on the measured pressure.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, exposed stimuli based on sensor data; monitoring, by the computing device, a response to the stimuli based on the sensor data; detecting, by the computing device, a deviation between the response to the stimuli and an expected response to the stimuli, wherein the expected response to the stimuli is determined based on information stored by a knowledge corpus; and executing, by the computing device, a deviation instruction based on the detecting the deviation.

Abstract: In diabetes management applications, recent glucose measurement values may be clinically useful for acute diagnosis and for the calculation of a corrective therapy. However, the physiological significance of these measurements can lessen with time, which can lead to their becoming less relevant for calculating an effective therapy. A technique is presented for emphasizing analyte values in a diabetes management application during a therapeutic window. In this way, a user is notified that the glucose measurement value is the most current measurement and remains usable for therapy applications, such as an insulin bolus calculation.

Abstract: A biopsy device includes an instrument set and an instrument drive unit removably coupled to the instrument set. The instrument set includes an instrument set housing; an elongate outer cannula having a tissue receiving aperture in a side wall thereof; an elongate inner cannula disposed within an outer cannula lumen; an aspiration vent fluidly coupling the outer cannula lumen to atmosphere; and an aspirate valve in the aspiration vent, and configured such that the outer cannula lumen is vented to atmosphere only when the aspirate valve is open. The instrument drive unit includes a drive unit support structure removably coupled to the instrument set housing; a motorized inner cannula driver configured to axially oscillate the inner cannula relative to the outer cannula to sever tissue extending through the tissue receiving opening; and an actuating member configured to selectively mechanically prevent the aspirate valve from closing.

Abstract: A method and system of providing therapy to a patient's uterus is provided, which can include any number of features. The method can include the steps of inserting a uterine device into the uterus and performing a uterine integrity test to determine that the uterus is intact and not perforated. If it is determined that the uterus is not perforated, a patency test can be performed to determine that the uterine device is not clogged or embedded in tissue. If the uterus is intact and the device is not clogged or embedded in tissue, the uterus can be treated with the uterine device, e.g., uterine ablation. Systems for performing these methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A new non-invasive tool for cartilage assessment, exercise and sports management, and prevention of osteoarthritis is provided. In various embodiments, cartilage condition is assessed using audible signals from joints. Assessment test results are used to provide feedback regarding joint stress and friction that is related to physiological or pathological loads. Data obtained from audible signals are processed to provide an index that can be interpreted by a user or third parties. The index is useful as a baseline for exercise practices, training routines, wellness programs, or rehabilitation protocols.

Abstract: A cannula-stylet assembly for piercing tissues of a subject's body includes a stylet that is significantly longer than the cannula. The length of the stylet enables introduction of the stylet through the length of both the cannula and a gripping device that has been coupled to a proximal end of the cannula. A medical piercing system may include a cannula-stylet assembly with a long stylet and a gripping device that may remain assembled with the cannula when the stylet is removed from the cannula or a gripping device that remains assembled with a stylet of a conventionally configured cannula-stylet assembly when the stylet is removed from the cannula.

Abstract: A non-contact blood pressure measurement system and a non-contact blood pressure value calculation method thereof are disclosed. The non-contact blood pressure measurement system includes a measurement module, a signal processing module, and a calculation module. The measurement module measures a physiological signal of a subject being tested in a non-contact manner. The signal processing module is used to obtain a forward pressure wave and a backward pressure wave according to the physiological signal of the subject being tested. The calculation module is used to find out a reflected pulse transit time between the forward pressure wave and the backward pressure wave so as to substitute the reflected pulse transit time and a plurality of correction parameters into a blood pressure algorithm formula to calculate an estimated diastolic blood pressure and an estimated systolic blood pressure of the subject being tested.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides apparatuses and computer readable media for measuring sub-epidermal moisture in patients to determine damaged tissue for clinical intervention. The present disclosure also provides methods for determining damaged tissue.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling improvements in athlete training and injury management through entropy and third-order spectral analysis of digitized force-vs-time time series from movements. In embodiments, entropy and/or bispectral statistics are determined using time-series information obtained from movements of an athlete, such as squat jump and countermovement jump maneuvers, using a biomechanical sensor, such as a digital force plate apparatus. These statistics may be used to facilitate sports medicine and health management of the athlete.

Abstract: A biological analysis device includes a CPU as a control device which determines a boundary between a first bandwidth in which a temporal change in a signal intensity is large and a second bandwidth which is located closer to a high frequency side than the first bandwidth and in which a temporal change in the signal intensity is less than the first bandwidth in a plurality of intensity spectra related to frequencies calculated sequentially with regard to light reflected and received inside a biological body through radiation of a laser beam, and calculates a biological index related to a blood flow of the biological body from a signal intensity within a frequency range in which the boundary is an upper limit in the intensity spectrum.