Anchors and anchoring methods suitable for use with implantable assemblies that include an implantable device, including but not limited to implantable sensing devices and implantable wireless sensing devices adapted to monitor physiological parameters within living bodies. Such an implantable device has a housing containing a transducer, electrical circuitry, and an antenna. The transducer is located at a first end of the housing opposite a second end of the housing. At least the transducer is located within a housing portion of the housing in which the antenna is not located. The implantable assembly further includes an anchor is adapted for securing the implantable device within a living body.

A method of cuff storage case for an electronic blood pressure monitor includes an electronic blood pressure monitor main part, cuff, and a cuff storage case. one end of the air tube connects to a side of the electronic blood pressure monitor main part, and the other end of the air tube connects to a cuff. When the electronic blood pressure monitor main part is not in use, the cuff can place inside the cuff storage case. The Cuff storage case connects to the electronic blood pressure monitor main part through the connecting element. The structure of this invention is reasonable. The cuff storage case fixes on the electronic blood pressure monitor main part through the connecting element and will not restrict the models and shapes of the electronic blood pressure monitor. It can apply to most kinds of electronic blood pressure monitors.

Provided is a biosignal measuring device 100 capable of easily calculating data on blood flow volume, blood flow velocity, and path length in the subject P as data for the time domain, and simplifying brain disease diagnosis based on this. It relates to a biosignal imaging device 1 and a brain image-based brain disease diagnosis system. To this end, the biosignal measuring apparatus 100 detects the reflected light signal after the light irradiated from the plurality of light irradiation units 111 and the plurality of light irradiation units 111 for irradiating light to the subject P are reflected. Based on the light signal detected by the measurement unit 110 including a plurality of light receiving units 112 and the light irradiation control unit 121 for controlling the light signal irradiated from each light irradiation unit 111 and the light receiving unit 112 and a calculation unit 120 including a signal processing unit 122 that calculates data for the subject P in the time domain.

Methods and apparatuses for heart rate detection are described. In one example, a headphones apparatus and method includes emitting a first light in a first light direction directed at a left ear location from a left ear light emitter, and detecting a detected first light at a left ear light detector following interaction of the first light with a left ear tissue. The method includes emitting a second light in a second light direction directed at a right ear location from a right ear light emitter, the right ear location different from the left ear location. The method further includes detecting a detected second light at a right ear light detector following interaction of the second light with a right ear tissue, and estimating a heart rate from the detected first light and the detected second light.

Devices associated with on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. These devices include any of packaging and/or loading systems, applicators and elements of the on-body sensor units themselves. Also, various approaches to connecting electrochemical analyte sensors to and/or within associated on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. The connector approaches variously involve the use of unique sensor and ancillary element arrangements to facilitate assembly of separate electronics assemblies and sensor elements that are kept apart until the end user brings them together.

Physiological monitoring can be provided through a lightweight wearable monitor that includes two components, a flexible extended wear electrode patch and a reusable monitor recorder that removably snaps into a receptacle on the electrode patch. The wearable monitor sits centrally on the patient's chest along the sternum oriented top-to-bottom. The placement of the wearable monitor in a location at the sternal midline, with its unique narrow “hourglass”-like shape, significantly improves the ability of the wearable monitor to cutaneously sense cardiac electrical potential signals, particularly the P-wave and the QRS interval signals indicating ventricular activity in the ECG waveforms. In particular, the ECG electrodes on the electrode patch are tailored to be positioned axially along the midline of the sternum for capturing action potential propagation in an orientation that corresponds to the aVF lead used in a conventional 12-lead ECG that is used to sense positive or upright P-waves.

An ear-wearable electronic device has a shell with an outer surface. A mounting void goes through the outer surface of the shell and exposes an internal volume of the shell. The mounting void is located at an ear-contacting region of the shell. The ear-wearable device includes a photoplethysmography sensor assembly having an optical transmission structure mounted in the mounting void and having a distal end exposed proximate the outer surface. The distal end of the optical transmission structure conforms to the outer surface of the shell at the ear-contacting region. The distal end is in contact with ear tissue of a user of the ear-wearable electronic device during use.

A clamping device of an external fixation system that has a jaw set with a passage at one end configured to hold an element from a first range of sizes and a second passage configured to hold an element from a different range of sizes. The jaw set includes a first jaw, a second jaw, and a slider interposed between the first and second jaws that moves to a first position when the first element is located in the first passage and to a second position when the second element is located in the second passage.

A system for monitoring animal vitals can include a housing, a controller and one or more sensors for sensing vital signs. The housing can be configured to couple to one or more locations on an animal. A system can be adapted for monitoring two or more vital signs simultaneously and for conveying vital sign information to a user. A system can be adapted for alerting a user to the presence or absence of one or more conditions. A system can include a plurality of sensor units and can be adapted for monitoring a plurality of patients simultaneously.

Provided herein are systems for monitoring a subject's teeth during orthodontic treatment. In particular, described herein are apparatuses having a fixed focal length for coupling to a patient's smartphone, including a built-in lip/cheek retractor. These smartphone dental imaging apparatuses may be configured to easily and robustly interface with the user's smartphone to allow capture of dental images.