Abstract: A ventilation detection method applied to a ventilation apparatus. The method may include monitoring respiratory parameters during mechanical ventilation of a patient by using a ventilation apparatus, the respiratory parameters at least comprising one of airway pressure and airway flow, and using changes in the respiratory parameters to identify whether man-machine counteraction or ventilation leakage has occurred.

Abstract: An air delivery system includes a visor having an outer peripheral edge and an inner peripheral edge. An air filtration assembly is removably mounted above an opening in the visor between the outer and inner peripheral edges, the air filtration assembly comprising a fan having an air inlet and an air outlet, an anode layer disposed over the air inlet, a filter layer disposed over the anode layer and a cathode layer disposed over the filter layer. In a first configuration, the air filtration assembly provides air flow toward an inner surface of the visor and, in a second configuration, the air filtration assembly provides air flow away from an outer surface of the visor. The air filtration assembly includes a mode actuator configured to control operation of a filtration mode indicator in dependence upon positioning of the air filtration assembly in the first or second configuration.

Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for brain-controlled body movement assistance devices. In one aspect, a device includes a brain-controlled body movement assistance device with a brain-computer interface (BCI) component adapted to be mounted to a user, a body movement assistance component operably connected to the BCI component and adapted to be worn by the user, and a feedback mechanism provided in connection with at least one of the BCI component and the body movement assistance component, the feedback mechanism being configured to output information relating to a usage session of the brain-controlled body movement assistance device.

Abstract: Provided is a skin care mask. The skin care mask includes a mask member configured to be placed on a facial region of a human body. The skin care mask further includes one or more vibrators installed within the mask member and configured to transfer vibrations to skin of the human body. The skin care mask further includes a vibration transfer member including a first surface contacting the one or more vibrators and a second surface configured to contact the skin. The vibration transfer member is configured to transfer the vibrations of the one or more vibrators to the skin. The skin care mask further includes a vibration absorption member. The skin care mask further includes a processor configured to separately control the one or more vibrators.

Abstract: Described herein are embodiments directed to a particle repelling helmet having particle mitigation system that keeps dust particles from going into the interior of the helmet. The helmet comprises a face vent that provides an unobstructed pathway between an external environment and a wearer's eyes, nose and mouth. A spacer arrangement connected to an inner side of the helmet provides a channel between the wearer's head and the inner helmet side. A fan blows air through the helmet, across the wearer's head and out the face vent and head receiving opening in the bottom of the helmet. Electrodes disposed along the edge of the face vent produce an electrostatic barrier that spans the face vent thereby further preventing charged dust from going into the helmet. The helmet can also comprise an ionizer that generates ions, which charges neutral dust particles that can be blocked by the barrier.

Abstract: A height-adjustable DAP exercise system is provided having a support platform, an inflatable enclosure secured to the support platform at a base opening through the enclosure and extending vertically therefrom when inflated, and a top frame attached to the enclosure at an enclosure top opening. The DAP system further includes adjustable lift restraints each having a restraint length between first and second ends and configured for adjustment between a first restraint length and at least one second restraint length, in which each first end of each lift restraint is attached to a middle portion of the enclosure and each second end is attached to the top frame or the base. The enclosure height is adjustable between a first and second enclosure height responsive to adjustments for lift restraint lengths. The system also includes a low height safety harness for the top frame and related methods.

Abstract: A nebulizer includes a main body (1), a spraying head (2) and an engagement structure (4). The main body (1) includes a body (11). The spraying head (2) includes a spraying seat (21) assembled to the body (11). The engagement structure (4) includes a notch (41) formed on one of the body (11) and the spraying seat (21), a T-shaped trench (42) formed on an inner wall of the notch (41), an engaging trench (43) formed on another one of the body (11) and the spraying seat (21), and a movable member (44) received in the notch (41). The movable member (44) is extended with a handle (441) exposed from the notch (41), a T-shaped block (442) slidably received in the T-shaped trench (42) and an engaging block (443) embedded in or separated from the engaging trench (43).

Abstract: A mask adapter (10), for connecting two breathing tubes (210) of a closed-circuit respirator (300) to a breathing mask (400), includes a mask connection (20) for a fluid-communicating connection to a breathing area (410) of the breathing mask (400) and two tube connections (30, 40) with tube connection axes (32, 42) for a fluid-communicating connection to a breathing tube (210) each. The first tube connection (30) has an incoming air valve (34) and the second tube connection (40) has an outgoing air valve (44). The first tube connection axis (32) of the first tube connection (30) further forms an acute tube connection angle (?) with the second tube connection axis (42) of the second tube connection (40).

Abstract: A cartridge for a dispensing device, such as a nebulizer, for dispensing a medicament composed of or produced from a plurality of components and a system including a dispensing device, such as a nebulizer, and such a cartridge. The cartridge includes at least two fluidically separated chambers which each contain at least one component of the medicament, an actuating mechanism for fluidically connecting the chambers and mixing the components for the dispensing of the medicament. A method for preparing a medicament composed of a plurality of components in a cartridge for the dispensing of said medicament by way of a dispensing device, such as a nebulizer, where a plurality of fluidically separated chambers of the cartridge are fluidically connected, and a component of the medicament is at least partially transferred from one of the chambers to another of the chambers with another component of the medicament in order to mix the components.

Abstract: A transparent face mask for enhancing communications while controlling release of respiratory droplets. The mask includes a body formed from a thin flexible plastic material such as polypropylene. The mask body has a center diamond shaped segment that cantilevers the mask body from the bridge of a wearer's nose. The body includes right and left side segments, which each extend outward from one of the four sides of a diamond-shaped center segment to form a segment-to-segment joint between adjacent side segment pairs that flexibly conforms the side portions to the wearer's face. The face mask includes risers formed of an elongate strip of flexible material with a cloth covering for comfort and ease of fit, and the risers each provides a contact point between the mask and the wearer's face adjacent to and inward of the ear from which the mask body is cantilevered away from the wearer's face.

Abstract: A laryngeal mask includes a housing having a neck part and a head part extending from a first end of the neck part. The head part further includes a sealing face and an opposing face, the sealing face and the opposing face being connected by an enclosing wall extending upwardly from the sealing face. The sealing face has a peripheral seal for forming a seal around a larynx and having an opening arranged to be positioned over a laryngeal opening. An airway tube is positioned within the housing and extends from a second end of the neck part to the opening in the peripheral seal, wherein the head part includes a resiliently deformable portion positioned between the sealing face and the opposing face. The resiliently deformable portion is a deformable portion of the head part. The resiliently deformable portion has a protrusion and protrudes upwardly from the opposing face.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for tracking of cardiac resuscitation procedures and transitions of care are disclosed. The method includes displaying on a first device one or more timers and a plurality of inputs, the plurality of inputs comprising patient health data, patient interventions, and medical events. The one or more timers, a feed of the medical events, and the patient interventions are displayed on a second device. One or more selections of the plurality of inputs are received from a user. A recommended cardiac resuscitation step is determined based on the user selections. The displaying on the second device is updated based on the one or more user selections and the recommendation. In various embodiments, a hand-off procedure may be implemented to transfer patient data, timers, event data, and/or user privileges from one healthcare professional to another.

Abstract: There is provided a receptacle device for a mask, the receptacle device comprising: a valve; a body portion surrounding the valve; an anchor portion; and a securing portion; wherein the anchor portion and the body portion define a channel therebetween, and the channel is configured to releasably engage the securing portion; and wherein the securing portion is configured to engage the mask.

Abstract: Devices and methods for CPR chest compression with active decompression.

Abstract: A mask for preventing water from entering a tracheal stoma comprises a neck hanging part and a mask body connected with the neck hanging part. The mask body is worn on a tracheostomy patient through the neck hanging part. A concave space is formed on an inner side of the mask body, a plurality of air vents communicating with the concave space are formed in a lower half of an outer side of the mask body, and a plurality of inclined retaining walls are respectively located in the concave space and respectively connected to a top edge of each of the air vents, and the inclined retaining wall is capable of preventing the concave space from being seen when viewed directly through the air vents of the mask body. The mask of the invention is capable of greatly reducing a risk of water entering the tracheal stoma.

Abstract: An oscillating positive expiratory pressure system including an oscillating positive expiratory pressure device, an adapter coupled to the device, and a control module coupled to the adapter. The control module provides real time information about the use of the device, and provides feedback and storage of the information to improve the use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) and methods to overcome issues associated with their use in high magnetic field environments.

Abstract: A headgear for use with a patient interface for providing a flow of pressurized breathing gas to the airway of a patient includes a pair of wrapping panels positioned at a rear thereof. The wrapping panels prevent the tension in the neck of a patient that commonly results when non-wrapping headgear is tightened.

Abstract: A breathing assistance apparatus and method of controlling a breathing assistance apparatus is disclosed. Particularly, the breathing assistance apparatus is controlled such that it has a drying cycle to enable drying of the tubing that supplies gases to a user and prevent the harbouring of pathogens within the tube. The drying cycle is preferably operated automatically by internal controllers in the apparatus. However, it may be manually activated by pressing a button on the apparatus. The drying cycle is preferably activated at the end of a user's treatment session.

Abstract: Methods and systems for supporting and/or assisting users' movements include detecting, by one or more sensors integrated with a garment having two or more controllable regions, movement of a particular part of a user's body enclosed within the garment, measuring, by the one or more sensors, data that indicates the detected movement of the particular part of the user's body, determining, based on the measured data, an activity classification that indicates a future movement of the particular part of the user's body, identifying, based on the determined activity classification and by the one or more processors, a support configuration for the garment, and dynamically adjusting, by the one or more processors, at least one of an effective tension and an effective stiffness of at least one of the two or more controllable regions of the garment to provide the identified support configuration of the garment.