Abstract: A floor scraper hand tool includes an elongated handle, a concave scraper blade, and a guard. The elongated handle is at least two feet long and defines first and second distal ends. The concave scraper blade is coupled proximate the first distal end and includes first and second scraping edges having different forms. A guard at least partially covers one of the first scraping edge or the second scraping edge. The concave scraper blade is coupleable to the elongated handle in a first position in which the first scraping edge is opposite the second distal end of the elongated handle and in a second position in which the second scraping edge is opposite the second distal end of the elongated handle. The guard at least partially covers the first scraping edge in the second position and at least partially covers the second scraping edge in the first position.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning sheet which is capable of being mounted upon a plurality of retaining instruments, with a housing part thereof comprising an aperture and a housing space. The housing space further comprises a first housing region which is suited to a first retaining instrument, and a second housing region which is suited to a second retaining instrument.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a washing machine and components and systems for enabling a user to clean the washing machine are provided. The method includes gaining access to debris that is trapped in otherwise inaccessible and/or concealed areas and/or directing debris out of inaccessible and/or concealed areas. The components include a jet channel that selectively couples to a discharge manifold in use and is removable to provide access to an interior area of the discharge manifold for cleaning. The systems include a removable mount assembly for accessories and a purging system for pumps and other concealed areas. The purging system is configured to discharge purging fluid through a plurality of purging ports and into concealed areas so as to direct debris in the concealed areas out of the concealed areas.

Abstract: A rack assembly for a dishwasher appliance is provided. The rack assembly includes one or more modular baskets placed in a primary rack. These baskets are easily removable and portable for loading and prewashing if desired. In addition, each of the modular baskets may have at least one sidewall that is collapsible. The collapsible sidewalls may be collapsed and adjacent baskets may be linked together using clips as needed based on the size of the dishware to be washed. In this manner, the rack assembly and modular baskets provide a convenient, configurable rack system that enables simple and effective loading, unloading, and prewashing of dishware.

Abstract: A rack lifting assembly for a dishwasher appliance is provided. The rack lifting assembly includes a lower rack suspended within the wash chamber by one or more linkage arms. A biasing assembly is configured for rotating the linkage arms to swing the lower rack up and out of the wash chamber. The rack lifting assembly may further include a slide assembly that couples the lower rack to the linkage arms such that the lower rack may extend in the transverse direction.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tip protector for an instrument such as an endoscope or borescope.

Abstract: An endoscope bending portion includes a circular cylindrical member on which a plurality of slots for bending are formed in a manner penetrating in a radial direction, a first slot among the plurality of slots for bending, a groove formed on the circular cylindrical member, a protrusion portion that is provided by being inserted into the circular cylindrical member through the groove from outside and by protruding on an inner circumference of the circular cylindrical member, where a wire hole is disposed inside the circular cylindrical member, a pulling wire that has a maximum outer diameter portion formed at a distal end portion, and that is inserted in the wire hole to have the maximum outer diameter portion engaged with the protrusion portion, and a restriction portion that is provided inside the circular cylindrical member.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a probe device with a control assembly, a bulb housing, and a probe section. The control assembly features a control mechanism and is generally configured to receive user commands. The probe section is electrically and mechanically connected to the control assembly and features a curvature. It is configured to curve in response to user commands. The bulb housing is configured to enclose a radiation emitting unit. The radiation emitting unit being electrically connected to the control assembly.

Abstract: An endoscope according to the present invention includes: a bending tube including ring-like members pivotally joined via pairs of pivots facing each other relative to a center axis, the bending tube being bendable; a pair of first pull wire guides projecting inward of a ring-like member; a forceps channel disposed so as to be contactable with the pair of first pull wire guides; and a pair of second pull wire guides being provided so as to project inward of the ring-like member and being disposed so that a distance between distal end portions extending toward an inner circumferential side of the ring-like member is a distance that is smaller than an outer diameter of the forceps channel.

Abstract: A driving force transmission mechanism for medical devices, includes a tubular portion including: an opening edge portion which allows a support portion of a drive shaft to be supported at an output end in a state where at least a part of the output end is accommodated in the tubular portion; and a first adjustment section which is configured to fix a gear train in a state where the drive shaft is inserted into the tubular portion and a distal portion of the drive shaft is arranged at a predetermined position where a driven portion is able to be driven and a state where a position of the output end of the gear train is adjusted relative to a position of the support portion of the drive shaft.

Abstract: An object is to detect the pressing force of a tip driven unit. In the controller 22, a motor control circuit 85, a load change detection unit 86, a moving speed calculation unit 87 that calculates the moving speed of a rotating body 41, a pressing force detection unit 88 that obtains the pressing force of the rotating body 41 based on the moving speed which is calculated, a CPU 89, and an alarm 91 are disposed. The pressing force is obtained based on the cycle of load change by the joint 41a in which a front end and a rear end overlap with each other is formed in the rotating body 41.

Abstract: An endoscope sheath comprising: (a) a proximal end, (b) a distal end having a distal end region, (c) a surface extending between and connecting the proximal end and the distal end, (d) a plurality of positioning devices located along the surface; and (e) one or more drip retention features; wherein the sheath is configured to: (i) receive all or a portion of an endoscope and (ii) provide a conduit for communicating fluid between the proximal end of the endoscope sheath and the distal end of the endoscope sheath when the endoscope is inserted inside the sheath; and wherein the plurality of positioning devices are located in a distal end region at the distal end of the endoscope sheath so that the endoscope is secured within the endoscope sheath; and wherein the one or more drip retention features are configured to produce a region bounded by the endoscope sheath and the endoscope to retain a volume of liquid by capillary action.

Abstract: An overtube includes a first tube member has a first distal opening end; a second tube member has a second distal opening end; a substantially tubular coupling member has first and second through-holes communicating with inside of the first and second tube member respectfully; a tapered surface forms part of a conical surface; a tube holding member fixed to an outer circumference surface of the second distal opening end of the second tube member; an operation wire coupled to the tube holding member and be operable to be moved along a longitudinal axis; and a guide member guides a distal part of the second tube member in movable manner, wherein the tube holding member coincides with the tapered surface or is located further inside the coupling member than the tapered surface in a state where the second tube member has the straight tube shape inside the coupling member.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment providing one or more improvements includes a micro endoscope having steering, rotation and tool control function which can be utilized for insertion using a needle and catheter for performing arthroscopy and endoscopic procedures.

Abstract: Endotracheal intubation support instrument comprises: a main body section having flexibility; a handle section and a blade section extending from both sides of the main body section respectively; and a U-shaped groove running through the main body section from the handle section to the blade section and allowing a flexible tube of a bronchial fiber to come in and out freely. The blade section comprises: a flap for subsuming all or a part of a larynx of a patient; and a lifting body having, on each bank of the U-shape groove, a first protruding portion allowed to contact with a peripheral portion of an epiglottis of the patient and a second protruding portion provided next to a main body section side of the first protruding portion and allowed to contact with a peripheral portion of a glossal root of the patient.

Abstract: The number of lenses within an objective lens for endoscopes is only three. The objective lens for endoscopes includes, in order from the object side, a first lens which is a single lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the object side, an aperture stop, and a cemented lens. The cemented lens is formed by cementing one positive lens and one negative lens together. Conditional formulae related to the distance from the surface toward the object side of the first lens to the aperture stop and the Abbe's numbers of the positive lens and the negative lens that constitute the cemented lens are satisfied.

Abstract: An instrument positioning mechanism includes a mounting position (125) on a medical device having a channel configured to permit an instrument (104) to pass therethrough. An instrument support (146) is configured to support a length of the instrument. A pivotal connection (150) is configured to rotatably adjust an angle between the support and the mounting position.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus for an endoscope of the present invention includes a first circuit board on which a lead portion, a window portion in which a part of the lead portion is exposed, and a second circuit board on which a circuit pattern is fixed by soldering to the lead portion exposed on the window portion, and the lead portion that is exposed on the window portion extends from one end side of the window portion to the other end side, and has an enlarged end portion of the lead portion that is placed between two or more insulating layers and is formed with a larger width than a width of the lead portion in the window portion, at the other end side.

Abstract: A signal line installation structure of an elongated member includes a signal line that is installed between an inner circumferential surface of an outer skin tube and outer circumferential portions of a rigid portion and a flexible portion, where the signal line is installed according to an installation structure according to which the signal line includes a spiral portion that is helically wound around the rigid portion and the flexible portion with an electrical connection portion on the outer circumference of the rigid portion as a winding start point. The spiral portion may prevent disconnection by reducing the bending stress of tension and compression that is applied to the signal line itself when the flexible portion is bent.

Abstract: An endoscopic imaging system is disclosed that includes an endoscope having a first channel and a second channel, a high-power, multi-wavelength LED array, a digital micro-mirror device that receives light directed from the high-power, multi-wavelength LED array and generates spatial frequency patterns, and dichroic mirror that separates reflectance and fluorescence images.

Abstract: A cavity illumination system according to the present disclosure may include one or more illumination elements composed of a transparent or semi-transparent, biocompatible sterilizable polymer and one or more illumination sources. The sterilizable polymer operates as a waveguide. An illumination element may incorporate micro structured optical components such as for example gratings, prisms and or diffusers to operate as precision optics for customized delivery of the light energy. The micro structured optical components may also be used to polarize and/or filter the light energy entering or exiting the illumination element.

Abstract: A visualization apparatus and a system for enhancing hand-eye coordination during a medical procedure are provided. The visualization apparatus includes an elongate support member, a head member, an operating head element, and a processor. The head member connected to the elongate support member at a predetermined angle includes an angled wall for mounting a reflector. The operating head element connected to an upper end of the head member mounts and supports an objective lens. The objective lens focuses light from an operating field to a reflector to create an image of the operating field. An eyepiece lens accommodated in the elongate support member or the head member magnifies the created image. The processor operatively communicating with an image receiver processes and transmits the magnified image to a viewer. The orientation of the magnified image on the viewer is similar to the orientation of the operating field, thereby enhancing hand-eye coordination.

Abstract: An optical coherence tomograph includes a wavelength tunable illuminating device, an illumination and measurement beam path with a dividing element and a scanner and a front optical unit and a reference beam path, a detection beam path and a flat panel detector. A beam splitter conducts the separated measurement radiation to the detection beam path and an optical element acts only on the illumination radiation. The optical element sets the numerical aperture of the illumination of the illumination field in the eye. An optical element acts only on the measurement radiation and sets the numerical aperture with which measurement radiation is collected in the eye. An aperture is arranged in front of the flat panel detector in an intermediate image plane and defines the size of an object field. The flat panel detector has a spatial resolution of 4 to 100 pixels in a direction.

Abstract: An optical measurement device including a light emitting element, a light pattern generating element and a light source transmission element is provided. The light pattern generating element includes a disk body, at least one round hole penetrating the disk body, at least one round disk embedded in the round hole, and at least two first magnetic elements disposed on the round disk. One end of the light source transmission element has two second magnetic elements. Through the magnetic connection of the first magnetic elements and the second magnetic elements, a chink on the round disk can rotate with the light source transmission element when the light source transmission element rotates. An optical measurement system including the optical measurement device is also provided.

Abstract: An inattention measurement device, system, and method wherein an index value indicating an inattention level of a subject is calculated based on information relating to a history of a gazing point of a subject when presented with a task of searching for a prescribed target.

Abstract: An eye tracker comprising at least one illuminator for illuminating an eye, at least two cameras for imaging the eye and a controller is disclosed. The configuration of the reference illuminator(s) and cameras is such that, at least one camera is coaxial with a reference illuminator and at least one camera is non-coaxial with a reference illuminator. On the one hand, the controller is adapted to select one of the cameras to be active with the aim of maximising an image quality metric and avoiding obscuring objects. On the other hand, the eye tracker is operable in a dual-camera mode to improve accuracy. The invention further provides a method and computer-program product for selecting a combination of an active reference illuminator from a plurality of reference illuminators and an active camera from a plurality of cameras.

Abstract: An ocular fundus camera system and an associated methodology. The system includes (a) an image sensor disposed along a fundus-image reflection path adjacent that path's downstream end, and in optical communication with light carried in this path, (b) an aperture centered on the reflection path's long axis, operatively associated with, and stationary with respect to, the sensor at a location which is upstream from the sensor, and (c), for accomplishing (1) precision fundus-image focusing on the sensor, and additionally (2) autorefraction, optical, light-content shifting structure, operable selectively for producing, within that portion of the reflection path which is disposed downstream from the shifting structure, relative trans-axial displacement solely of any non-collimated light carried in that portion of the main path which is disposed upstream from the shifting structure.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a technology for preventing a situation in which a subject's eye is imaged in an inappropriate imaging mode. An ophthalmic apparatus according to one embodiment is capable of selectively performing a first imaging mode and a second imaging mode. The first imaging mode is an imaging mode in which imaging of a subject's eye is performed in a first state where an attachment unit is not attached. The second imaging mode is an imaging mode in which imaging of the subject's eye is performed in a second state where the attachment unit is attached.

Abstract: Systems and methods for systems and platforms that receive data from and send data to wearable devices, receive data from environmental sensors, and visualization which collectively creates a kinematic chain to allow for input from individuals, groups, third party information and interfaces with historical data as well as predictive modeling systems. Systems that include data from interoperable wearables in conjunction with one or more sensors and measuring devices may be used. Furthermore, the interoperability of one or more sensors and communication modules could be networked with one or more physical entities and objects creating an interactive communication network. Wearable platforms could include but are not limited to all wearables (inter- and intra- and proximity-wearables), smart devices, IT networks, virtual systems and secure information processes.

Abstract: A ward cloud system uses an intelligent cloud database to receive and integrate vital-sign information detected by an intelligent electronic vital-sign monitoring device. The ward cloud system can receive time information and calibration curves from the far-end intelligent cloud database to synchronize the intelligent electronic vital-sign monitoring device and check and calibrate accuracy of the intelligent electronic vital-sign monitoring device. A method for calibrating time and accuracy of an intelligent electronic vital-sign monitoring device is disclosed also. The user needn't send the intelligent electronic vital-sign monitoring device back to the manufacturer for calibration with special equipment or extra manual setting. Therefore, labor and money is saved. The intelligent cloud database can analyze and integrate vital-sign information and file the vital-sign information into historical records.

Abstract: A sensor interface is configured to receive a sensor signal. A transmitter generates a transmit signal. A receiver receives the signal corresponding to the transmit signal. Further, a monitor interface is configured to communicate a waveform to the monitor so that measurements derived by the monitor from the waveform are generally equivalent to measurements derivable from the sensor signal.

Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention teaches systems and methods for using T1-weighted black-blood MR imaging, with which a CVT can be well isolated from the surrounding tissues due to the signal suppression of flowing blood. In some embodiments, the invention teaches using black-blood imaging (3D variable-flip-angle turbo spin-echo acquisition) to directly visualize thrombi. In certain embodiments, the invention teaches using T1 weighted image contrast and isotropic sub-millimeter spatial resolution for accurate detection and staging of thrombi. In various embodiments, the invention allows for the detection of chronic thrombosis recanalization.

Abstract: A biological information detecting device or the like in which waterproof performance or the like is improved by a simple structure. The device includes a sensor unit which detects biological information of a test body, and a case portion in which the sensor unit is disposed. The case portion is provided with a light transmitting portion including a detection window which transmits light incident on the sensor unit, and a light blocking portion blocking light from being incident on an inner portion of the case portion. In a case where a direction towards the sensor unit from the test body at the time of mounting the biological information detecting device is set to a first direction, a joining portion between the light transmitting portion and the light blocking portion protrudes or is dented along a direction intersecting with the first direction.

Abstract: Using an optical tomography method of splitting low coherent light into sample light and reference-light, emitting the sample light to a measurement-target in a line shape, generating interference light by superimposing reflected light from the measurement-target due to emission of the sample light and the reference-light on each other, and acquiring a two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-image of the measurement-target by spectroscopically detecting the interference light and performing frequency analysis, an arbitrary wavelength region in an ultraviolet region is cut out from low coherent light including a wavelength region from an ultraviolet region to a visible region and the arbitrary wavelength region is shaped into a spectrum having an arbitrary wavelength width, the two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-image is acquired as using the low coherent light, and the penetration depth of the sample light for the measurement-target is evaluated based on the two-dimensional spectroscopic tomographic-

Abstract: A fiber-optic probe for multi-modal characterization of a tissue. The fiber optic probe may comprise a first group of fibers associated with a first modality of light. The first group of fibers may comprise a first light delivery fiber and a first light collection fiber. The fiber optic probe may also comprise a second group of fibers associated with at least a second modality of light, the second group of fibers comprising a second light delivery fiber and a second light collection fiber; The fiber optic probe may also comprise a longpass filter positioned distal to the first group of fibers and a lens positioned distal to the filter. The fiber optic probe may also comprise. The fiber optic probe may include the second group of fibers bypassing the filter. The second group of fibers may bypass the filter.

Abstract: A measurement probe is configured to be detachably connected to a bio-optical measurement apparatus and includes: an illuminating fiber configured to irradiate body tissues with illumination light; light receiving fibers configured to receive return light of the illumination light reflected and/or scattered from the body tissues; an optical element configured to transmit the illumination light and the return light and to keep distances between the body tissues and distal ends of the illuminating fiber and the light receiving fibers, constant; and a contact detecting fiber configured to receive the return light to detect contact between a distal end face of the optical element and the body tissues, and detect the return light at a detection region on the distal end face through which the illumination light and the return light pass. The detection region is located outside an illumination region of the illuminating fiber.

Abstract: An acoustic wave detector that detects an acoustic wave from a subject, an optical fiber that guides light emitted from a light source to a probe body, and a light guide member that guides light from a light entrance end, which is optically coupled to the optical fiber, to a light exit end, which is located in the vicinity of the acoustic wave detector, are provided. The light guide member is secured in the probe body with a securing material provided at least partially around the light guide member. The conditional expression below is satisfied: sin?1(n2/n1)×(180°/?)<90°??i where n1 is a refractive index of the light guide member, n2 is a refractive index of the securing material, and ?i is a spread angle of incoming light from the optical fiber.

Abstract: Provided is an object information acquiring apparatus including a supporting unit configured to be capable of holding a liquid acoustic matching member, a plurality of receiving elements each supported on the supporting unit to receive an acoustic wave propagated from an object via the acoustic matching member and output an electrical signal, a scanning unit that changes a relative position of each of the receiving elements and the object by moving the supporting unit, a controlling unit that controls a velocity of movement of the supporting unit performed by the scanning unit, and a processing unit that acquires specific information of an inside of the object based on the electrical signal. The scanning unit moves the supporting unit on a path having portions of different curvatures.

Abstract: A method of obtaining symmetric temperature change, comprising the following steps of preparing a temperature sensing device; measuring and collecting temperature change: placing the temperature sensing device (1) on a predetermined position of a participant to measure and collect the participant's body temperature change data; extracting data; removing the temperature sensing device from the participant's body when running out of the battery and then connecting a reading device to extract the body temperature change data out of the temperature sensing device in order to apply the body temperature change data in precision medicine; the body temperature change data is used as the key marker without affecting the participant's daily activity, preventing the participant from inaccuracy of the body temperature change data caused by psychological and/or physiological factors, so the body temperature change data can be applied in the symmetry precision medicine.

Abstract: A reading device, applied with at least one temperature sensing device and at least one external device; the temperature sensing device electrically connected with the reading device, comprising at least one temperature sensing patch which is capable of attaching on human skin, and sensing as well as recording body temperature change; the outer device being connected with, the reading device by a wireless communication; the reading device comprising: a housing, a data transmission port group, a screen, an external device connection port group, a memory unit, a processor unit, a control interface, and a wireless communication unit; the reading device is capable of reading and integrating the body temperature data obtained from the temperature sensing patch, and transmitting rapidly to the external device, whereby the medical personnel could quickly and easily know a patient's body temperature change, and effectively determine the patient's condition

Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with an air bag drive unit, a pressing surface formed with pressure sensors, and a control unit which calculates first blood pressure values on the basis of a first pressure pulse wave that was detected by the pressure sensors, generates calibration data using the first blood pressure values, and calculates second blood pressure values by calibrating, using the calibration data, a second pressure pulse wave that is detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing force is set at an optimum pressing force. The control unit performs the processing of calculating second blood pressure values by calibrating the second pressure pulse wave if detection conditions of the second pressure pulse wave coincide with detection conditions of a pressure pulse wave used for generation of the calibration data.

Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with pressure sensors, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface toward a radius artery that runs under a skin of a living body; an air bag drive unit for controlling the pressing force of the air bag, and a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in the radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by all of the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased or decreased.

Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device is equipped with a pressing surface which is formed with an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction and an element array of plural pressure sensors arranged in the one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body, a control unit for calculating blood pressure values in a radius artery on the basis of pressure pulse waves that are detected by the pressure sensors in a state that the pressing surface is pressed against the living body by the air bag, and a rotational drive unit for performing driving to rotate the pressing surface about each of axes that are perpendicular to a pressing direction of the air bag.

Abstract: The embodiment provides a blood pressure measurement device equipped with a pressing surface having plural pressure sensors arranged in one direction, an air bag for pressing the pressing surface against a living body part in a state that the one direction crosses a direction in which the radius artery T runs, an air bag drive unit, a rotational drive unit for driving the pressing surface rotationally about at least one of axes X and Y, and a control unit which performs a rotation control on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by the pressure sensors in a process that the pressing force was increased and calculates blood pressure values on the basis of pressure pulse waves that were detected by the pressure sensors after the rotation control in a process that the pressing force was decreased.

Abstract: A method of controlling a gas delivery apparatus including an apparatus controllable variable using an iterative algorithm to deliver a test gas (TG) for non-invasively determining a subject's pulmonary blood flow comprising iteratively generating and evaluating test values of a iterated variable based on an iterative algorithm in order output a test value of the iterated variable that meets a test criterion wherein iterative algorithm is characterized in that it defines a test mathematical relationship between the at least one apparatus controllable variable, the iterated variable and an end tidal concentration of test gas attained by setting the apparatus controllable variable, such that the iterative algorithm is determinative of whether iteration on the test value satisfies a test criterion or iteratively generates a progressively refined test value.

Abstract: An arm mountable portable patient monitoring device configured for both on patient monitoring of parameter measurements using one or more sensors operatively connected to the portable patient monitoring device and wireless transmission of parameter measurements. The arm mountable portable patient monitoring device includes a pulse oximetry sensor configured to be wrapped around a digit of a patient, a housing having a size and shape configured for mounting to a lower arm of the patient, and a strap mountable to the back side of the housing and configured to secure the housing to the lower arm of the patient. The housing includes a display, a first sensor port positioned on the housing to face toward a hand of the patient, second and third sensor ports, a battery, signal processing arrangements to cause display of parameter measurements, and a transmitter to transmit information indicative of the measurements.

Abstract: A method and system for determining homeostatic risk in a patient, in order to screen metabolic diseases and/or their complications and/or their treatment management, is provided. The method includes receiving, from one or more sensors coupled with the patient, galvanic skin response, bioimpedance, a photoplethysmogram (PTG), and blood pressure from the patient, executing a spectral analysis of the PTG, and calculating a homeostatic risk score based on the galvanic skin response, bioimpedance, blood pressure and PTG, and a display for displaying the homeostatic risk score.

Abstract: A sensor interface is configured to receive a sensor signal. A transmitter generates a transmit signal. A receiver receives the signal corresponding to the transmit signal. Further, a monitor interface is configured to communicate a waveform to the monitor so that measurements derived by the monitor from the waveform are generally equivalent to measurements derivable from the sensor signal.

Abstract: A modular monitoring and ventilation system includes a standalone monitor unit for monitoring patient-related parameters that are indicative of the physiological status of a patient, which receives at least one signal indicative of such a patient-related parameter from at least one sensor and that displays information related to that signal on a display, and a standalone, portable pneumatic unit for ventilatory treatment of a patient by supplying breathing gas to the patient. The monitor unit and the pneumatic unit are able to placed in a paired state in which they are communicatively connected to each other for information exchange, and in which those units cooperate to provide ventilatory treatment to the patient, with operation of the portable pneumatic unit being controlled based on the signal that is indicative of the monitored patient-related parameter, received by the monitor unit from the at least one sensor.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus for measuring biological information when a test site is in contact with a contact unit includes a biological sensor for acquiring a biometric output from the test site, a controller for measuring the biological information based on the biometric output, an arithmetic logic unit for calculating information on measurement accuracy of the biological information, and an information output unit for outputting the biological information and the information on the measurement accuracy.