A tubing assembly for use with electronic catheter guidance systems is provided and includes a catheter and an acoustic sensor. The catheter extends in a longitudinal direction and has a proximal end and a distal end that define a lumen therebetween. Further, the catheter is configured for placement within a patient's digestive tract. The acoustic sensor can be located within the lumen of the catheter or in a sampling chamber connected to the catheter. The acoustic sensor can communicate with a processor to deliver sound data to a display device. The appearance of random spikes on a frequency versus time spectrogram can indicate placement of the catheter in the digestive tract, while a rhythmic/repetitive pattern on a frequency versus time spectrogram can indicate placement of the catheter in the respiratory tract. A catheter guidance system and method for accurately placing a catheter in the digestive tract are also provided.

Various methods and apparatuses are presented for an ingestible capsule that includes a digital, ingestible sensor componentor ingestible sensorembedded into the capsule. The ingestible sensor component may be configured to activate upon coming into contact with conductive fluid, such as a body's stomach fluid. Once activated, the ingestible sensor component may be configured to perform various tasks, such as transmitting one or more signals and obtaining biometric data about the body that ingested the capsule.

A baby bottle sensor with content deduction logic is attachable to a baby bottle. The sensor uses programmed logic to deduce whether formula or some other fluid is being fed. Collected data is stored and reported to a paired Bluetooth device.

A dosing cup for delivery of medicinal fluid includes a base wall, a sidewall, a first gripping portion, and a second gripping portion. The sidewall extends from the base wall to an upper rim, thereby defining a medicinal fluid-receiving volume. The first gripping portion is formed at a first position of the sidewall. The second gripping portion is formed at a second position of the sidewall opposite the first position across the medicinal fluid-receiving volume. Each of the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion include one or more anti-nesting projections that extend from an outer surface of the sidewall a distance beyond an inner diameter of the upper rim.

The present invention deals with an intelligent device, connected to the internet, providing for the safe storage and delivery of medicines in an automatic and controlled manner. In addition, it allows for health checks to be made on the patient using data obtained through peripheral devices, which are not the subject of this invention. Thus it is an electromechanical device together with the necessary software both in the device and in external applications, to improve compliance with pharmacological treatments for patients, also generating reliable information and enabling continuous monitoring of the patient by the responsible person.

A robotic system and method are provided for transfer of fluid between a container accessible via a container-septum and a fluid transfer assembly accessible via a fluid transfer connector septum. The robotic system includes a controller and a manipulator controllable by the controller to manipulate at least one of the container and the fluid transfer assembly. The controller is configured to operate the manipulator to secure contact between the container-septum and the fluid transfer connector septum during at least a portion of the transfer of the fluid.

Provided herein are patient-controlled oral liquid-medicine dispenser and deactivation systems. The system includes a dosing container having a defined volumetric capacity and a spillway adapted and configured to allow fluid in excess of the defined volumetric capacity to flow out of the dosing container; a sealed and tamperproof waste receptacle fluidly coupled to the dosing container, the waste receptacle adapted and configured to capture and prevent diversion of liquid medicine dispensed in excess of the defined volumetric capacity of the dosing container; and a suction apparatus extending between a lower region of the dosing container and outside of the dosing container. Also provided herein are methods of administering a medication using the system.

A computer-implemented method of adjusting enteral feeding of a patient by an enteral feeding controller, comprising: computing an estimate of energy expenditure of the patient based on oxygen measurements and carbon dioxide measurements of the patient, computing a target composition and target feeding rate for the enteral feeding according to the computed estimate of energy expenditure, when the target composition and target feeding rate differ from a current enteral feeding composition and feeding rate by a requirement, generating instructions for adjustment, by an enteral feeding controller, of the rate of delivery of the enteral feeding according to the target composition, wherein the receiving the oxygen measurement, receiving the carbon dioxide measurement, and computing the estimate of energy expenditure are performing iteratively for every first time interval, and the generating instructions for adjustment are performed for a second time interval that is larger than the first time interval.

The invention relates to a smart thermal insulation box, including thermally insulated layers with mitered edges forming a thermally insulated space, and said space surrounded by corrugated material. The box also has externally viewable and operable temperature and humidity sensors, and optionally, a vibration sensor, where the sensors are preferably fixed inside the box to one side. One of the cardboard panels forming the top of the box which overlays the insulation layer has a window configured to overlay the display panel. An audible alert system may also be included to alert users to temperature or humidity excursions.

Provided are a medicine verification device and a method capable of performing accurate verification of the type of medicines even in a case where the sharpness of the image differs between a master image and a captured image of the verification target medicine. The type of the verification target medicine packed in a packaging material is verified by using the master image and the captured image of the verification target medicine, and then characteristic information indicating an optical characteristic of the packaging material is acquired. When the optical characteristic indicated by the characteristic information is an optical characteristic that decreases the sharpness of the captured image of the verification target medicine to be lower than that of the master image, correction processing is executed and the type of the verification target medicine is verified using the master image in which the sharpness has been corrected by the correction processing.