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20120116156 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION OF ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION - A medical device includes a tube, at least one imaging sensor coupled to an endoscope in the tube, and a monitor application to monitor positioning of the tube in a medical patient by identifying expected anatomical features in images provided by the at least one sensor. A method for endotracheal intubation includes receiving imaging frames from a sensor located in an endotracheal tube inserted through a patient's mouth, and processing the imaging frames to identify a progression of anatomical features consistent with a proper placement of the endotracheal tube. | 05-10-2012 |
20140377795 | SPECTROSCOPIC MEANS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING MICROORGANISMS IN CULTURE - A spectroscopic method for spectroscopic detection and identification of bacteria in culture is disclosed. The method incorporates construction of at least one data set, which may be a spectrum, interference pattern, or scattering pattern, from a cultured sample suspected of containing said bacteria. The data set is corrected for the presence of water in the sample, spectral features are extracted using a principal components analysis, and the features are classified using a learning algorithm. In some embodiments of the invention, for example, to differentiate MRSA from MSSA, a multimodal analysis is performed in which identification of the bacteria is made based on a spectrum of the sample, an interference pattern used to determine cell wall thickness, and a scattering pattern used to determine cell wall roughness. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed, one embodiment of which incorporates a multiple sample analyzer. | 12-25-2014 |
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20120186898 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. The device includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured to a common side thereof, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position. | 07-26-2012 |
20120205189 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. One embodiment includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured to a common side thereof, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position. Another embodiment is structured to dispose the ear in the enhanced hearing orientation due primarily to its substantially constant dimension and configuration, being absent any inherent or structurally added biasing capabilities. | 08-16-2012 |
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20120186899 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. One embodiment includes an elongated base, structured to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured thereto, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed positioning force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position. | 07-26-2012 |
20120186900 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. One embodiment includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured to a common side thereof, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position. | 07-26-2012 |
20120186901 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. One embodiment includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured to a common side thereof, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position. | 07-26-2012 |
20130098705 | HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. The device includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured to a common side thereof, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position. | 04-25-2013 |
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20100049314 | TRANSCATHETER CORONARY SINUS MITRAL VALVE ANNULOPLASTY PROCEDURE AND CORONARY ARTERY AND MYOCARDIAL PROTECTION DEVICE - A protective device or bridge ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100168555 | Interventional devices for chronic total occlusion recanalization under MRI guidance - Disclosed is a guide catheter that includes one or more RF antennas to enhance the visibility of the guide catheter in MR imagery. One embodiment of the guide catheter includes a loop coil at the distal end of the guide catheter and a loopless antenna between the distal end and the proximal end. By combining a loop coil and a loopless antenna on the catheter, the shaft of the catheter may be visible in MR imagery while the distal end may appear in the MR imagery more brightly than the shaft. | 07-01-2010 |
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20130211510 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR TRANSCATHETER CERCLAGE ANNULOPLASTY - Devices, apparatus, and methods for catheter-based repair of cardiac valves, including transcatheter-mitral-valve-cerclage annuloplasty and transcatheter-mitral-valve reapposition. In particular, a target and capture device is provided for guiding a cerclage traversal catheter system through a cerclage trajectory, particularly through a reentry site of the cerclage trajectory. The target and capture device provides the user with a target through which the cerclage traversal catheter system must be guided, particularly under imaging guidance, so as to properly traverse the cerclage trajectory at any desired location, particularly at a reentry site. The target and capture device can, further, ensnare and externalize the cerclage traversal catheter system. | 08-15-2013 |
20160038287 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING FUNCTIONAL TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION - Disclosed here are devices and methods for treating functional tricuspid valve regurgitation and related conditions. Disclosed devices are adapted for applying force to an area of a patient's heart along or near the atrioventricular groove, and can include a tensioning element configured to be delivered by a flexible member guided through a catheter and positioned generally along or near the atrioventricular groove, and a compression member positionable along the tensioning element and over a desired segment of the atrioventricular groove to develop force to be applied to an adjacent area of the heart by selective tensioning of the tensioning element. | 02-11-2016 |
20160120647 | ENCIRCLING IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Delivery devices for delivering encircling implants can include two separate limbs that are held together at a distal articulation by the implant being delivered. The implant can comprise a suture and/or a braided tube. The implant can extend through or over the limbs. The implant and at least a distal portion of the limbs can be compressible into a delivery shape that allows for advancement through the lumen of a delivery catheter. When the distal portion of the limbs move out of the delivery catheter, the limbs and implant can resiliently assume a loop shape that is complementary to a shape of a target around which the encircling implant is to be placed. The limbs are then retracted from along the implant to leave the implant in the desired delivery position. The delivery device can be used to place encircling implants around the heart or other targets, and the implant can be tightened to exert compressive force on the target. | 05-05-2016 |
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20090005441 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING COMPLIANCE WITH THERAPIES USING ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE INHIBITORS AND TREATING ALCOHOLISM - Compositions and methods for treating, preventing, or reducing alcoholism, in particular methods for increasing patient compliance with therapies that require the intake of an ALDH inhibitor comprising the step of administering a monoamine oxidase B inhibitor. | 01-01-2009 |
20110319389 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING FATIGUE ASSOCIATED WITH DISORDERED SLEEP USING VERY LOW DOSE CYCLOBENZAPRINE - The present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prevention of fatigue associated with disordered sleep, for example, in multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, Fabry's disease, Parkinson's disease, or traumatic brain injury, using cyclobenzaprine The present invention further relates to a biomarker for the therapeutic effects of a cyclobenzaprine treatment. | 12-29-2011 |
20120101154 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING COMPLIANCE WITH THERAPIES USING ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE INHIBITORS AND TREATING ALCOHOLISM - Compositions and methods for treating, preventing, or reducing alcoholism, in particular methods for increasing patient compliance with therapies that require the intake of an ALDH inhibitor comprising the step of administering a monoamine oxidase B inhibitor. | 04-26-2012 |
20120232159 | Methods and Compositions for Treating Depression using Cyclobenzaprine - The present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prevention of depression, and related pharmaceutical compositions. Of particular interest are pharmaceutical compositions comprising cyclobenzaprine, alone, or in combination with an antidepressant drug. | 09-13-2012 |
20130165511 | TREATMENT FOR COCAINE ADDICTION - A novel pharmaceutical composition is provided for the control of stimulant effects, in particular treatment of cocaine addiction, or further to treatment of both cocaine and alcohol dependency, including simultaneous therapeutic dose application or a single dose of a combined therapeutically effective composition of disulfiram and selegiline compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic salt thereof. | 06-27-2013 |
20140079686 | Methods For Treating Baldness And Promoting Hair Growth - The invention relates to methods of treating baldness, treating alopecia, promoting hair growth, and/or promoting hair follicle development and/or activation or stimulation on an area of the skin of a subject (for example, a human) by subjecting said area of the skin to integumental perturbation. Integumental perturbation can be used in combination with other treatments for promoting hair growth. The invention provides devices for integumental perturbation for promoting hair growth, and provides pharmaceutical compositions for use in combination with integumental perturbation for promoting hair growth. | 03-20-2014 |
20140171515 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMUCOSAL ABSORPTION - The invention provides compositions and methods for administering compounds for transmucosal absorption. The compositions and methods have a number of surprising pharmacokinetic benefits over oral administration of a compound. | 06-19-2014 |
20140212486 | ISOMETHEPTENE ISOMER - The invention relates to a purified Isometheptene compound comprising the structure according to Formula (I), | 07-31-2014 |
20150065581 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING FATIGUE ASSOCIATED WITH DISORDERED SLEEP USING VERY LOW DOSE CYCLOBENZAPRINE - The present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prevention of fatigue associated with disordered sleep, for example, in multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, Fabry's disease, Parkinson's disease, or traumatic brain injury, using cyclobenzaprine. The present invention further relates to a biomarker for the therapeutic effects of a cyclobenzaprine treatment. | 03-05-2015 |
20150258197 | EUTECTIC ISOMETHEPTENE MUCATE - The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of manufacturing the same, comprising a eutectic of racemic isometheptene mucate and mannitol or (R)-isometheptene mucate and mannitol. | 09-17-2015 |
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20110130706 | SEQUENTIAL BODY SURFACE TREATMENT - The present methods and systems provide treatment of a preselected body surface by injuring a portion of the body surface, optionally applying a composition such as a pharmaceutical agent to the injured portion of the body surface, and selection of a further portion on the body surface for the same or different injury and optional contacting with the same or different composition, wherein the further portion has a preselected geometry with respect to the first injured portion. The repetition of the selection, injury, and optional exposure to a composition with respect to successive portions of the body surface, optionally under partial or total computer control, provides efficient treatment of the body surface pursuant to the objective of regeneration, remodeling, resurfacing, restoration, follicular neogenesis, neocollagenesis, stem cell recruitment, activation, or differentiation, reepitheliazation, wound healing, or any other desired biological or physical modification. | 06-02-2011 |
20110130711 | HAIR GROWTH TREATMENT - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for increasing hair growth in subjects in need thereof due to male- or female-pattern hair loss, pathological hair loss, or hair loss after injury. By any use of any appropriate mechanical, electromagnetic, or chemical means, the present disclosure pertains to the segmentation of hair follicles into two or more disunited subunits in order to form new follicles from the respective subunits. In contrast with known techniques for bisecting hair follicles and as described more fully herein, the present methods and systems permit the bisection of single follicles or populations of follicles with a high degree of efficiency, and thereby represent an effective treatment option for those in need of increased hair growth. | 06-02-2011 |
20110130748 | BODY SURFACE TREATMENT - The present methods and systems provide the induction of preselected injury types to target areas of tissue in an iterative manner in order to provide beneficial treatment with respect to a desired body surface. The methods and systems disclosed herein may include the precise selection of target areas for treatment, which may itself involve identifying physical features that require treatment, distinguishing areas or features that are not suitable for treatment, or both. The present modalities are distinguishable from prior methodologies having lower rates of success because of the failure of the latter to match treatment or treatment type with specific physical features. | 06-02-2011 |
20130204238 | COMBINATION THERAPY - The present methods, systems, and kits permit the induction of multimodal injury to a subject's skin. This approach maximizes the responsiveness of the treated area to treatments for producing hair follicles; exciting, activating, and dispersing existing hair-producing structures; and bringing about other physiological changes that correspond to increased hair growth and/or the growth of more robust hairs. In contrast with conventional methodologies, the present methods and systems provide heretofore unattainable advantages through use of a multi-pronged approach of de novo hair follicle production, in combination with reorganization of existing structures to produce new follicular units, as well as pharmaceutical enhancement of both processes, and other gainful techniques. | 08-08-2013 |