Hospitals are stressful environments where injured and diseased persons receive healing or palliative care. Machine devices are used to monitor individual's health status and often deliver treatment. Treatment may be delivered with a goal of allowing the individual to live a relatively normal life outside the hospital, but treatments may be delivered with a goal of increasing an individual's comfort including reduction of hospital induced stress. Hospitals generally have specialized units, e.g., trauma, maternity, neonatal, pediatric, intensive car, surgery, medical, rehabilitation, neurologic, oncologic, etc. Many units may be sub-specialized, e.g., pediatric oncology, gynecologic surgery, orthopedic surgery, etc. Many units will have associated intensive care units where the more seriously ill individuals receive specialized care including intensive monitoring and varying degrees of pharmacologic and/or mechanical life or organ support.

Apparatus for passing exhaled gasses from a mouth of a patient to a gas analyzer, the apparatus comprising: a pacifier comprising a distal end, a proximal end and an opening extending from the distal end to the proximal end, wherein the distal end comprises a nipple configured to be inserted into the mouth of the patient and the proximal end comprises a base configured to be positioned against the mouth of the patient; and a connector for connecting the pacifier to the gas analyzer.

A method for detecting vital information and humidity by using a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar device is provided, including: transmitting an incident radar signal to a field, detects a reflected radar signal reflected by a to-be-measured object and a reflected radar signal reflected by a humidity sensor tag, so as to obtain vital information of the to-be-measured object and humidity information detected by the humidity sensor tag.

This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for detecting, monitoring, and responding to abnormalities in an infant's breathing. One or more sensing devices may collect infant breathing related data, which may be filtered and converted to a frequency signal. The frequency signal may be monitored for irregularity or stoppage, and a processing module may determine whether the irregularity or stoppage is caused by an actual stoppage or irregularity in infant breathing. If infant breathing is determined to have stopped, a corrective action may be performed.

A patient monitoring sensor having a communication interface, through which the patient monitoring sensor can communicate with a monitor is provided. The patient monitoring sensor includes a light-emitting diode (LED) communicatively coupled to the communication interface and a detector, communicatively coupled to the communication interface, capable of detecting light. The patient monitoring sensor includes a silicone patient-side adhesive.

A system and apparatus for collecting electroencephalography (EEG) data from infants and young children is disclosed.

Methods and systems are described for detecting the likelihood of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in an infant using electrocardiogram and photoplethysmographic pulse signals obtained from the upper body and foot of the infant.

Embodiments described herein relate to a catheter configured to detect at least one blood gas parameter present in blood in an artery of a patient, including, but not limited to, a catheter wall forming at least one lumen configured for umbilical arterial catheterization, at least one optical fiber incorporated in the catheter wall, wherein the at least one optical fiber is configured to detected the at least one blood gas parameter.

A wireless device for facilitating visualization of a state of a patient being monitored by monitoring equipment. The device includes a wireless network interface, a camera, and a touch-sensitive display. A processor is in communication with the wireless network interface, the camera, a memory and the touch-sensitive display over a system bus. The device wirelessly receives data representative of a state of a first physiological parameter of a patient over a time interval. The visualization data includes a plurality of visualization data values, each of the visualization data values being generated by a data visualization module of the data visualization server from multiple values of machine data produced by the monitoring equipment in connection with monitoring the first physiological parameter. A first portion of a monitoring screen displayed by the device includes a graphical representation of the visualization data over the time interval along with or more range indicators.

A nursing assistance device includes: a biological information acquisition unit that acquires biological information of an infant/toddler; a biological information estimation unit that, by using the biological information in a first period as acquired by the biological information acquisition unit and reference information based on the biological information of a plurality of infants/toddlers, estimates the biological information in a second period different from the first period; and an assessment unit that assesses an emotional abnormality in the infant/toddler in the second period on the basis of a comparison between the biological information in the second period as acquired by the biological information acquisition unit and the biological information as estimated by the biological information estimation unit.