The invention relates to a detection apparatus and a method for detecting and manipulating a blood vessel under the skin of part of the body of a patient, which comprises a treatment chamber for accommodating the body part, a data processing control device, a vascular structure measuring device for detecting the position and/or dimensions of vascular structure data of the blood vessel in the treatment chamber by measurement, a vascular manipulation device for changing the position and/or dimension of the blood vessel, wherein the control device is designed to control the vascular manipulation device as a function of the vascular structure data.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient's extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient's extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.

A blood filtration system may include a blood circuit. The blood filtration system may include an adjustable cuff configured to receive a portion of a limb of a patient. The cuff may selectively engage with the limb to apply an external force to the limb. Applying force to the limb with the cuff may inhibit flow of blood within the vasculature of the limb. The system may adjust the cuff to change the force applied to the limb, for example to correspondingly change flow of blood from the vasculature to the blood circuit. The blood filtration system may include a controller. The controller may communicate with the cuff. The controller may operate the cuff to adjust the force applied to the limb of the patient.

A device for treating an aneurysm of a human or mammal patient, wherein the aneurysm may self-expand, leading to the aneurysm bursting with high risk for death of the human or mammal patient. The device comprising an implantable member adapted to be placed in connection with the outside of a blood vessel having the aneurysm, and to exercise a pressure on the outside of the blood vessel having the aneurysm, a measuring device or sensor for measuring or sensing an expansion of the aneurysm, and a pressure regulator adapted to regulate the exercised pressure on the outside of the blood vessel having the aneurysm.

An apparatus, method, and system that can continuously inflate a cuff to LOP when inflating the cuff that is positioned on a limb of a person or animal without having to terminate operation of the pump to detect if blood is flowing through a blood vessel and past the cuff.

A tourniquet apparatus comprises a cuff, a user interface, a controller, a protocol hazard key and a protocol safety interlock. The cuff encircles the patient's limb and applies a level of pressure. The UI presents a protocol symbol from a plurality of protocol symbols wherein each protocol symbol is indicative of a corresponding safety protocol. The controller is responsive to stored pressure levels and stored times specified by the safety protocol, after any adjustments by the user, and operable during the stored protocol time period for maintaining the level of pressure applied by the cuff to the individual patient near the plurality of stored pressure levels at the plurality of stored times. The protocol hazard key is actuatable to end the stored protocol time period while the controller is operable. The protocol safety interlock prevents selection of a second protocol symbol while the controller is operable.

Some embodiments of the present invention disclose a method to reduce the intracranial cerebral blood pressure in a newborn, comprising: mounting an inflating cuff in at least one extremity of said newborn; monitoring the blood pressure in said newborn; if blood pressure rises above a predetermined value, then: inflating said inflating cuff to a predetermined level; wherein said inflating cuff further comprises blocking venous blood flow in said extremity by means of said inflating cuff and lowering cardiac output and systemic blood pressure.

An air pressure-controlled inflatable compression device designed to be worn around the wrist to supply sufficient compression to control bleeding from an arteriotomy in the radial artery, while allowing blood to flow through the radial artery from the heart to the hand is provided. The device contains a bladder with a controlled inflation mechanism and a pressure sensor or indicator. The desired inflation pressure will be determined based on the blood pressure of the patient. The bladder pressure may be determined by a clinician based on the patient's vital statistics or the device may index the pressure using a pump and valve based on an electronic blood pressure sensor and a microprocessor controller. The length of time that the band compresses the artery will be determined by a clinician or microprocessor controlled.

A reduced pressure delivery system for applying reduced pressure tissue treatment to a tissue site is provided. The system includes a manifold delivery tube and a balloon having an inner space. The balloon is capable of assuming collapsed and expanded positions. The system further includes a manifold having a plurality of flow channels. The manifold is disposed within the inner space of the balloon. A sharp tip is configured to be delivered within the manifold delivery tube to puncture the balloon.