The improved apparatus for semi-occluded vocal tract exercises disclosed herein may comprise a novel hollow apparatus that enables and enhances semi-occluded vocal tract breathing and vocalizing exercises. A preferable embodiment comprises a hollow tube. The tube may be made of metal or another durable material. It may be rigid or flexible in different embodiments. In preferred embodiments, the tube would feature a material that has antimicrobial properties such as the oligodynamic effect found in copper, brass, silver, gold, and several other metals and alloys. In certain embodiments it might be approximately 76.2 mm long, with an inner diameter between 2.3 mm and 3.5 mm. In preferred embodiments, the apparatus would have an inner diameter between 2.3 mm and 3.5 mm. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the tube is incorporated into a wearable item such as a necklace. In other embodiments, it is used as an instrument, or as a vocal warm-up tool.

A pressure support device (4) for providing pressure support therapy to a patient includes a pressure generating system (6,18) structured to generate pressure to provide pressure compensation to the patient via a patient circuit (12,14), one or more sensors (22,27,28) structured to gather data indicative of disordered breathing events of the patient, and a processing unit (24) structured to control the pressure generating system to provide a pressure compensation regimen to the patient; to analyze outputs of the one or more sensors while pressure support therapy is provided to the patient to determine if the pressure compensation regimen provided to the patient is effective to relieve one or more disordered breathing events, and to output an alert if it is determined that the pressure compensation regimen provided to the patient is not effective in relieving the one or more disordered breathing events.

In one embodiment, a device in a network detects an anomaly in the network by analyzing a set of sample data regarding one or more conditions of the network using a behavioral analytics model. The device receives feedback regarding the detected anomaly. The device determines that the anomaly was a true positive based on the received feedback. The device excludes the set of sample data from a training set for the behavioral analytics model, in response to determining that the anomaly was a true positive.

A dilation device comprises an elongate shaft, an inflatable balloon, and a resilient tube. The inflatable balloon is disposed along the shaft. The resilient tube is also disposed along the shaft and is positioned to encompass at least part of the inflatable balloon. The resilient tube is configured to impose an inwardly directed resilient bias on at least a portion of the exterior of the inflatable balloon. At least part of the resilient tube is secured to one or both of the elongate shaft or the inflatable balloon.

A laryngeal mask airway (LMA) device includes an inflatable annular cuff, which, when disposed in free space, is characterized by a pressure-volume curve that represents the pressure in the cuff when inflated, from a deflated negative pressure, by different volumes of ambient-pressure air, which include a low-pressure volume that results in a low pressure of 10 cm H2O. The pressure-volume curve includes (a) a low-pressure-range average rate of change over a low-pressure volume interval between 1.0 and 1.2 times the low-pressure volume, (b) a medium-pressure-range average rate of change over a medium-pressure volume interval between 2.0 and 2.2 times the low-pressure volume, and (c) a medium pressure at a medium volume of the cuff equal to 2.0 times the low-pressure volume. The medium-pressure-range average rate of change is less than 0.5 times the low-pressure-range average rate of change, and the medium pressure is between 20 and 200 cm H2O.

It is an object to provide an inexpensive technology capable of alleviating pain of a patient during phlegm suction. A laryngeal camera unit (200) is used in combination with a portable device including a lens, which forms a part of a camera, and a light. The laryngeal camera unit (200) includes an illumination light transmission member (223) and an image light transmission member (222), both of which are rod-shaped and are to be inserted in an oral cavity. Illumination light from the light of the portable device is transmitted to a larynx by the illumination light transmission member (223), and image light from the larynx is transmitted from behind a uvula to the portable device by the image light transmission member (222). A user performs the phlegm suction while checking an image displayed on a display of the portable device.

The disclosed device, method, and system provide a simple, safe, effective and widely applicable method-device to suction the throat in patients with absence or incompetent swallowing reflexes. For instance, disclosed is a combination enteric feeding and pharyngeal suctioning tube that both pumps food to a patient's stomach while suctioning a patient's throat to remove pharyngeal secretions. The suctioning tube may be an attachment to a feeding tube that terminates just at or above the esophageal opening when connected to the feeding tube. The end of the pharyngeal suctioning tube may include perforations that allow the pharyngeal secretions to be vacuumed into the suctioning portion for removal.

An airway device for a subject which has an airway tube having a distal end and a proximal end, and a laryngeal mask disposed surrounding the distal end of the airway tube, wherein the inner part of the laryngeal mask has a hollow body filled with a biocompatible thermosensitive hydrogel, wherein the biocompatible thermosensitive hydrogel is gelified within a temperature range such that the biocompatible thermosensitive hydrogel, upon being gelified, allows the laryngeal mask to fit over the circumference of a laryngeal inlet of the subject.

Glottis Mask Airway (GMA)an aperture of larynx sealed airway for human ventilation includes a main airway; a non-inflatable cuff at the distal end of the main airway; the shape of the cuff is matched the shape of aperture of larynx perfectly. There is a sealing ring in the device to seal the intersection angle between the aperture of larynx and the wall of pharynx to prevent leakage during the ventilation. There is an epiglottis holder within the cuff where corresponding the epiglottis to prevent the epiglottis falls into the main airway cause the airway block. Plus there are 1) C-channel for gastric tube insertion; 2) at the proximal end of the main airway an openside airway is able to push ETT to the proper position at once; 3) a tongue base rest as the device stabilizer to stabilize the device in using.

A system or device for providing medical suction, particularly for intubating patients, wherein the system or device helps prevent clogging from solids dispersed in the liquid to be suctioned. This device will allow the user to effectively clear an airway or other region of the patient while minimizing the occurrence of clogs and providing for the effective and expedited unclogging of the device without the necessity of removing the device from the patient or requiring two hands to unclog.