The present invention relates to methods for operating a respiration apparatus and a respiration system, and also a respiration apparatus and a respiration system. The respiration system comprises a respiration apparatus and a computer software program for an external computer to operate the respiration apparatus. The respiration apparatus comprises a processor device and an apparatus software program and an apparatus configuration. The validities of the computer software, the apparatus software and the apparatus configuration are in each case characterized by a version. The versions are compared with one another to detect a version conflict. If invalid versions are present, the computer software is provided with a program component with a limit value and a plausibility rule, or the setting parameters are sorted into a first group and a second group. The setting parameters of the first group are retained.

An activation assembly for a medicament delivery device is presented having a delivery member cover provided with legs and configured to be biased in a proximal direction, a movable sleeve configured to be received between the legs, and an activation sleeve configured to be biased in the proximal direction, wherein the delivery member cover is configured to be moved in an axial direction between a first position and a second position, wherein movement of the delivery member cover from the first position to the second position causes movement of the movable sleeve from a first movable sleeve position to a second movable sleeve position. The delivery member cover axially displaces the activation sleeve in a distal direction when the delivery member cover moves towards the second position, thereby causing a first actuation of a sensor. The activation sleeve is configured to move in the proximal direction when the delivery member cover returns from the second position to the first position, thereby providing a second actuation of the sensor.

A blood circuit assembly for a dialysis unit may include an organizing tray, a pair of pneumatic pumps mounted to the organizing tray for circulating blood received from a patient through a circuit including a dialyzer unit and returned to the patient, an air trap mounted to the organizing tray arranged to remove air from blood circulating in the circuit, a pair of dialyzer connections arranged to connect to the inlet and outlet of a dialyzer unit, and a pair of blood line connectors, one inlet blood line connector for receiving blood from the patient and providing blood to the pneumatic pumps and the other outlet blood line connector for returning blood to the patient.

The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for medically active liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an inhalation device providing a particularly high pressure for nebulization. The inhalation device comprises a housing (1), a reservoir (2), a pumping unit connected (3) to a means for the delivery of mechanical energy (4) to said pumping unit (3), and a nozzle (5). The pumping unit (3) comprises a hollow cylindrical part (3A) and a piston (3B), the cylindrical part (3A) having an interior space (3C) with a defined first cross section (A1) configured to receive an upstream end portion (3B′) of said piston (3B), wherein said cylindrical part (3A) and said piston (3B) are linearly moveable relative to one another such as to form a pumping chamber having a variable volume. According to the invention, the means for the delivery of mechanical energy (4) is a pressurised gas, wherein the device comprises a pressure chamber (6) having an internal volume for holding said pressurized gas, a wall of said pressure chamber (6) being provided by a plunger (7) which is configured to perform a reciprocating linear movement such as to change the internal volume of the pressure chamber (6), wherein the plunger (7) is mechanically coupled to the piston (3B) or to the cylindrical part (3A), and wherein the plunger (7) exhibits a cross section (A2) which is larger than the cross section (A1) of the pumping chamber. Further, a method for generation of an aerosol of a medically active liquid by means of said inhalation device is disclosed.

An injection device assembly including a housing, a syringe, a drive mechanism and one or more sensing systems are described. The drive mechanism advances the syringe from a storage position to an injection position, and a plunger advances the syringe piston from an initial position to a final position. The status sensing system may include one or more main PCB(s) disposed in an end portion of the injection device assembly's housing. The system may determine various parameters related to an operational status of the injection device, including the location of the device's components, an amount of medication remaining in the device, a temperature of the medication, and whether or not the device is properly contacting the user's skin before injection. The system may communicate such determined parameters to an external device via a wireless communication link.

Presented herein are various methods for using head positioning pillows to optimize respiratory titration. More specifically, the method includes a first step of determining an optimal relative angle between the patient's mouth and throat at which the patient's airway is optimally opened. The method also includes a second step of adjusting a head positioning pillow relative to the patient's head and neck to modify and transform the configuration of the pillow to achieve a pillow position that achieves the optimal relative angle.

A method, apparatus, computer program, programmable device and system are all disclosed for the detection of the actuation of an inhaler and breath of a user from audio data. The method comprises identifying, based on a high frequency band of the audio data, actuation of the inhaler. The method additionally comprises identifying, based on a low frequency band of the audio data and based on the identified actuation of the inhaler, an interval of the audio data comprising the breath of the user.

The invention relates to psychology and is used in psychological correction of mental states and dependencies and correction of social behavior in methods aimed at attitude change. Provided is a classical conditioning tool kit for changing problematic attitude to positive attitude while providing psychological support by using tools of pleasant classical conditioning affecting all sensory channels of information perception of a human. The kit includes at least one flavoring food additive, at least one aromatic essential oil, at least one mineral, auto-training text for audio listening, and an image with a suggestive formula to change a problematic attitude to a positive attitude. One image with a selected suggestive formula for changing the attitude includes one or more linguistic phrases targeting kinesthetic sensations, and another image includes linguistic persuasions that assist with forming a new attitude. All tools evoke pleasant feelings in a patient.

An adhesive patch for a drug delivery device with a bacteria impermeable sterility margin surrounding an edge surface of the adhesive patch is disclosed, as well as a drug delivery device fixed to such an adhesive patch and a method of assembling a drug delivery device with such an adhesive patch. In some arrangements, the sterility margin is attached to or integral with a lower liner on a lower surface of the adhesive patch. In other arrangements, the sterility margin is attached to or integral with an upper liner on an upper surface of the adhesive patch.

According to one or more embodiments, a system is provided. The system includes a power device implantable within a patient for powering an implantable medical device. The power device includes a first coil configured to receive wireless power signals for powering the implantable medical device and processing circuitry configured to determine at least one measurable electrical characteristic in a plurality of electrical pathways in the power device including an electrical pathway to the first coil, and detect reduced performance in receiving wireless power signals based at least in part on the determined at least one measurable electrical characteristic.