Abstract: A method for assessing a patient may involve performing a first diagnostic procedure on the patient. The first diagnostic procedure may involve securing a volumetric integral phase-shift spectroscopy (VIPS) device to the patient's head, measuring an intracranial bioimpedance with the VIPS device, and detecting an asymmetry based on the measured intracranial bioimpedance. The method may further involve performing a second diagnostic procedure on the patient using an additional diagnostic device, receiving first patient data from the first diagnostic procedure and second patient data from the second diagnostic procedure in a computer processor, processing the first patient data and the second patient data with the computer processor, and generating an assessment of the patient with the computer processor, based at least in part on the processed first patient data and second patient data.

Abstract: A method for measuring an intracranial fluid bioimpedance in a patient's head, to help detect an abnormality, may involve: securing a volumetric integral phase-shift spectroscopy (VIPS) device to the patient's head; measuring the intracranial fluid bioimpedance with the VIPS device by measuring a phase shift between a magnetic field transmitted from a transmitter on one side of a VIPS device and a magnetic field received at a receiver on another side of the VIPS device, at one or more frequencies; and detecting an abnormality in the intracranial bioimpedance fluid, using a processor in the VIPS device.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for providing immediate temporary treatment of pneumothorax in a patient by exhausting the pleural cavity. The apparatus incorporates an exhaustion device having a standard luer lock lug receptacle enabling use of a multiple of different size and models of pleural cavity entrance devices having standard luer lock connecting lugs. The exhaustion device also incorporates a one-way valve on the luer lock lug receptacle for exhausting fluid from the pleural cavity and preventing fluid from flowing into the pleural cavity. Projecting wings ease the handling of the apparatus and provide tape attachment surfaces for securing of the apparatus to a patient.