An automated allergy office system and method provides a medical professional with a new allergy treatment plan to administer to a patient. The automated allergy office system comprises a smart phone or a tablet computer to select a test site on the patient's skin that is clear. A multiple test applicator is in cooperative engagement with a fluid tray and delivers a small amount of a first allergen to a first test site on the patient's skin as a small amount of a second allergen is delivered to a second test site on the patient's skin. The allergy condition of the patient is detected as a wheal forms at the first test site after fifteen minutes. The elements of the treatment plan are retrieved from a database for treating the patient's allergy condition.

An inaccurate blood pressure (BP) measurement can result if a person is not thermally comfortable during a cuff BP measurement. For example, an inaccurate BP measurement can result if a person feels cold when his or her upper extremity that wears the BP measurement cuff is exposed to a low ambient temperature during a BP measurement. Although a person can wear thermally comfortable clothing, the person's upper extremity must be exposed to the ambient temperature during a cuff BP measurement. A cover, such as a fabric blanket, thermo-regulated blanket, electric blanket, plastic tube, etc., for a BP measurement cuff and/or for a person's upper extremity that wears the BP measurement cuff can improve the person's thermal comfort and can stabilize cuff BP measurements. In addition, warm or cool conditioned air with an appropriate level of humidity can be introduced into the cover to make the person even more thermally comfortable.

Method and systems for determining acceptance criteria for a lumen of a device are provided. The methods and systems can be operable to identify a device with occlusion(s) in the lumen in an inspection method.

A removal tool uses magnetic attraction to guide the removal tool toward an implantable device subcutaneously implanted in subcutaneous tissue of a host and to remove the implantable device from the host. The removal tool may include first and second lever members that are pivotably connected together, and the first and second lever members include a pair of jaw members configured to move between open and closed positions to grasp the implantable device. The first jaw member may include a magnet to magnetically attract and couple to an implantable device implanted subcutaneously below a skin surface of a host.

The disclosed invention provides a sweat sensing device configured with reduced volume between sweat sensors and sweat glands, which decreases the chronologically assured sampling interval. In one embodiment, a sweat sensing device placed on the skin for measuring a property of a sweat analyte includes one or more sweat sensors and a volume-reducing component. The volume-reducing component provides a volume-reduced pathway for sweat between the one or more sweat sensors and sweat glands when the device is positioned on the skin. The volume-reducing component may include a wicking material or other component that at least partially creates the volume-reduced pathway.

A System of mated connectors includes a connector having one or more connector quadrants comprising electrical contacts and a mating connector detachably secured to the connector. The mating connector includes one or more mating quadrants and electrical contacts. The mating connector configured to provide electrical coupling to the connector detachably secured thereto. The electrical contacts of a first quadrant of connector quadrants have a first predetermined pin-out and the electrical contacts of a second quadrant of the connector quadrants have a second predetermined pin-out. The electrical contacts of each quadrant of a first pair of the mating quadrants have the first predetermined pin-out and the electrical contacts of each quadrant of a second pair of the mating quadrants have the second predetermined pin-out.

Described is a catheter for being retained inside the body for extended periods, and a catheter mating device that can connect to the catheter to move the catheter inside of the body or remove it from the body. The catheter mating device has a stem with an apparatus at its distal end. The apparatus is moveable between a first position and a second position. When in its first position, the distal end is configured to fit in the proximal end of the catheter. When in its second position, the distal end engages the proximal end of the catheter and connects the catheter mating device to the catheter.

An intelligent defecation device for living creature includes a device body, a supporting portion, an image module, and a first analysis module. The supporting portion is formed within the inner side of the device body for accommodating a moisture absorption member so as to allow the living creature to leave over its excrement therein. The image module is also arranged at the device body for dynamically capturing the images of the excrement in the supporting portion and outputting the image. The first analysis module is arranged in the device body and connected with the image module to analyze and calculate the defecation mode with the image based on preset or accumulated data, so as to generate a signal when an abnormal defecation mode is diagnosed.

An installation unit of the analyte detection device and use method are provided. The installation unit includes: a housing, including at least two first buckles; a parallel slider module, which is provided with the second buckles corresponding to the first buckles, and the first buckles separately coupled with the second buckles; an analyte detection device; an auxiliary-needle module; an triggering module. When the triggering module moves to the far end relative to the housing, it cancels the coupling of the first buckles and the second buckles to implement the installation action; and an elastic module. When using the installation unit, the user only needs to attach the near end of the installation unit to the skin surface and press the housing at the far end to complete the installation of the analyte detection device, which is simple in structure and convenient in use.

A system and method for transporting a hyperpolarized substance is disclosed. A transport vessel for transporting such a hyperpolarized substance includes a vessel housing, a chamber formed within the vessel housing that is configured to receive a container holding a hyperpolarized substance, and an electromagnet configured to generate a magnetic containment field about the chamber when a current is supplied thereto, the magnetic containment field comprising a homogeneous magnetic field. The transport vessel also includes a non-magnetic power source to supply the current to the electromagnet and a control circuit configured to selectively interrupt the supply of current to the electromagnet so as to control generation of the magnetic containment field, with the transport vessel being magnetically inert when the supply of current to the electromagnet is interrupted by the control circuit.