Devices and methods for predicting, identifying and/or managing pneumonia are disclosed and may generally comprise a housing, a mouthpiece in communication with the housing and configured for insertion within a mouth, a temperature sensor positioned within or along the housing, a pulse oximeter sensor positioned along the housing for sensing a heart rate or blood oxygen level, a microphone positioned within or along the housing for obtaining sounds associated with respiration, and a controller configured to receive physiologic parameters including the temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen level, and sounds associated with respiration. The controller can determine a likelihood of contracting pneumonia, a presence of pneumonia, or a status of pneumonia within the user based on deviations from a threshold value which are present in at least two of the physiologic parameters.

The present invention relates generally to a system and method for measuring the structural characteristics of an object. The object is subjected to an energy application processes and provides an objective, quantitative measurement of structural characteristics of an object. The system may include a device, for example, a percussion instrument, capable of being reproducibly placed against the object undergoing such measurement for reproducible positioning. The structural characteristics as defined herein may include vibration damping capacities, acoustic damping capacities, structural integrity or structural stability.

There is provided a controller for a fluid-detection system, wherein the controller is configured to: determine if a user is interacting with the fluid detection system, wherein the determining comprises at least one of: determining whether a user is within a predetermined distance of the fluid detection system; determining whether a user is in physical contact with the fluid detection system; determining whether a fluid sensor of the fluid detection system is in a mouth of a user; and control the temperature of the fluid sensor of the fluid detection system based on the result of the determination. There is also provided a fluid based detection system comprising the controller, a device comprising the controller, a remote device comprising the controller, and a computer implemented method for controlling a fluid detection system, the method comprising the steps of: determining if a user is interacting with the fluid detection system, wherein the determining comprises at least one of: determining whether a user is within a predetermined distance of the system; determining whether a user is in physical contact with the fluid detection system; determining whether a fluid sensor of the fluid detection system is in a mouth of a user; and controlling the temperature of the fluid sensor of the fluid detection system based on the result of the determination.

A method for determining a disease state prediction, relating to a potential disease or medical condition of a subject, includes accessing a set of subject images, the subject images capturing a part of a subject's body, and accessing a set of clinical factors from the subject. The clinical factors are collected by a device or a medical practitioner substantially contemporaneously with the capture of the subject images. The subject images are inputted into an image model to generate disease metrics for disease prediction for the subject. The disease metrics generated by the image model and the clinical factors are inputted into a classifier to determine the disease state prediction, and the disease state prediction is returned.

An implant unit configured for implantation into a body of a subject is provided. The implant unit may include a flexible carrier unit including a central portion and two elongated arms extending from the central portion, an antenna, located on the central portion, configured to receive a signal, at least one pair of electrodes arranged on a first elongated arm of the two elongated arms. The at least one pair of electrodes may be adapted to modulate a first nerve. The elongated arms of the flexible carrier may be configured to form an open ended curvature around a muscle with the nerve to be stimulated within an arc of the curvature.

Methods and apparatus for detection of tissue damage in users using a PPE device for an extended period of time are disclosed.

A universal respiratory detector for detecting a respiratory gas. The universal respiratory detector may include a plurality of layers with a visual indicator to quickly and reversibly change color to detect a respiratory gas parameter such as carbon dioxide. The color change may be visible from both sides of the detector. In some examples, the respiratory detector may be a biocompatible and conformable sticker for mounting on a person’s face or an oxygen delivery device.

This invention is a programmable, mobile, and reusable point-of-care-testing (POCT) unit for identifying pathogens and their viability state in the respiratory airways realis tempus. The device can be used to test for COVID-19 infections in individuals entering or exiting venues (i.e. schools, restaurants, bars, sporting events, etc.). The POCT unit is capable of performing thousands of tests without maintenance or repair. The POCT unit employs fluoresced spectra analysis (FSA) to uniquely identify the specific bacteria or virus and their relative concentration level based on spectral pattern recognition. Additionally, the POCT unit identifies the living or dead state of bacteria or the active or inactive state of a virus. Automatic pattern recognition of the bacteria or virus spectrum is done using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Deep Learning Neural Networks (DLNN). The DLNN computational process is performed at a remote site linked to the POCT unit by a smartphone or lap-top online connection. The POCT unit is an “at patient” testing instrument for identifying pathogen including SARS-CoV2, SWINE-FLU, H1N1, E-BOLI, Influenza, etc. The POCT unit response time is driven by the SmartPhone connectivity time or the laptop computational ability. The identification of a specific pathogen is determined by the programming of the DLNN and therefore useable for identifying current and future respiratory bacterial or viral infections by adjusting the DLNN software using new training data. The POCT unit has three configurations, namely, a mobile unit connected by Smartphone or PC and a personal home user version connected through Bluetooth to a SmartPhone.

A muscle anti-clenching training device comprising a flexible device body conformable in a range of configurations upon a user’s body, and including: a skin-contact side and a top cover side; electrical contacts mounted in the flexible device body and exposed upon the skin-contact side; an adhesive upon the skin-contact side; an alert device mounted in the flexible device body; sensing circuitry electrically connected to the electrical contacts and structured to monitor an electrical property in a user’s body; and an electronic controller coupled to the sensing circuitry and structured to activate the alert device to produce an alert signal where the monitored electrical property is indicative of a muscular contraction.

A dental appliance including a dielectric substrate with one or more electric areas having one or more integrated circuits, one or more electric lines, and optionally one or more shielding lines. The dental appliance further includes one or more ground areas including one or more ground pads, one or more sensing areas including one or more sensing pads, and optionally one or more shielding pads. The dental appliance is configured to monitor dental contact, dental forces, and/or for detecting teeth clenching and/or grinding.