Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for providing an integration interface for event messages being sent between nurse call devices and interface devices outside of the nurse call system. The system includes an integration interface server disposed between the nurse call system and the interface devices. The integration interface server includes an integration engine that performs a translation process on event messages received at the integration interface server. The translation process translates the event messages such that they can be understood by either the nurse call system or the interface devices. Further, the translation process is based on whether the event message was originally created to be sent to the nurse call system or the interface devices. In this manner, the integration interface server is configured to provide a common interface to and from the nurse call system for a variety of interface device types.

Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge, DBD, lamp device comprises a toroid shaped discharge chamber (10) having a discharge chamber wall (12). The discharge chamber wall comprises a tubular inner wall section (14), a tubular outer wall section (16), and two ring-shaped end wall sections (18, 20). Each of the end wall sections extend between an end of the outer wall section and an end of the inner wall section. A high voltage electrode (22) is provided at an outer surface of the outer wall section of the discharge chamber wall. A low voltage electrode comprises an electrically conducting fluid surrounded by the inner wall section of the discharge chamber wall. The DBD lamp device may be part of an optical fluid treatment device.

Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge, DBD, lamp device comprises a toroid shaped discharge chamber (10) having a discharge chamber wall (12). The discharge chamber wall comprises a tubular inner wall section (14), a tubular outer wall section (16), and two ring-shaped end wall sections (18, 20). Each of the end wall sections extend between an end of the outer wall section and an end of the inner wall section. A high voltage electrode (22) is provided at an outer surface of the outer wall section of the discharge chamber wall. A low voltage electrode comprises an electrically conducting fluid surrounded by the inner wall section of the discharge chamber wall. The DBD lamp device may be part of an optical fluid treatment device.