Disclosed is a self-contained device for stimulating slow brain waves, capable of being worn by a person, in particular during a period of time when the person is sleeping. The device includes a supporting element, capable of surrounding the head of a person, and on which electrodes are mounted in contact with the person in order to acquire a measurement signal that represents a physiological electrical signal of the person; an acoustic transducer for emitting an acoustic signal stimulating the inner ear of the person; and on-board conditioning and control electronics for, in flexible real time, receiving the measurement signal and controlling the emission of an acoustic signal synchronized with a predefined slow brain wave time pattern.

Methods and devices related to the fields of skin care, hair restoration and lip care wherein the systems may be used by an individual for infusing treatment media into skin or lips for cosmetic and rejuvenation purposes, hair restoration purposes or other therapeutic purposes.

A head mounted catheter holder assembly is disclosed comprising a head mount assembly and an one or more catheter holders. Said one or more catheter holders comprises a first catheter holder. Said one or more catheter holders attach to said head mount assembly. Said head mount assembly releasably attaches to a head of a user. Said one or more catheter holders releasably hold a one or more catheter tubes.

A device for use with an OR table for supporting a patient's head in a sniff position has a support assembly including a base and patient head support for mounting to an end of an OR table; a pneumatic or mechanical jack, or an expandable bellows, supporting the patient head support for raising or lowering the patient's head relative to the base; a rotatable axis allowing for flexion and extension of the neck; and a mounting assembly for mounting the support assembly to the end of the operating table.

A dream stimulator may include a substrate and a plurality of electrodes positioned along a first side of the substrate. The stimulator also may include a stimulator coupled to the substrate. At least one lead may couple the plurality of electrodes to the stimulator. Additionally, a band may be positioned along a second side of the substrate and about each of the plurality of electrodes.

Apparatuses (including devices, kits, and systems) and methods to non-invasively and chemically (rather than thermally) activate thermoreceptors to modulate sleep. For example, described herein are apparatuses including topical compositions that stimulate thermoreceptors on the subject's skin (e.g., forehead, hands, and/or feet) for a period of time to induce a sensation of temperature (heat or cold) without significantly altering the person's actual skin temperature to improve sleep quality, including reducing sleep-onset latency, enhancing depth of sleep, and/or extending the amount of time a subject sleeps. The subject may be suffering from insomnia or some other sleep disorder.

Apparatus and methods are provided for applying negative pressure to tissues of a patient that are transmitted to the vertebral venous system of the patient and thereby lowering intracranial pressure. Intracranial pressure is thus lowered easily without increasing the work of breathing, without needing to be intubated, and without breathing through a valve in patients with elevated increased intracranial pressure.

A pressure support device (4) for providing pressure support therapy to a patient includes a pressure generating system (6, 18) structured to generate pressure to provide pressure compensation to the patient via a patient circuit (12, 14), one or more sensors (22, 27, 28) structured to gather data indicative of disordered breathing events of the patient, and a processing unit (24) structured to control the pressure generating system to provide a pressure compensation regimen to the patient; to analyze outputs of the one or more sensors while pressure support therapy is provided to the patient to determine if the pressure compensation regimen provided to the patient is effective to relieve one or more disordered breathing events, and to output an alert if it is determined that the pressure compensation regimen provided to the patient is not effective in relieving the one or more disordered breathing events.

A respiratory pressure therapy (RPT) system may include a housing portion forming a plenum chamber pressurizable to a therapeutic pressure; a seal-forming structure constructed and arranged to with a region of the patients face; a positioning and stabilising structure constructed and arranged to provide an elastic force to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on the patients head; a blower configured to pressurize the plenum chamber to the therapeutic pressure; a vent assembly configured to discharge gas from a plenum chamber to atmosphere; a sensor port positioned downstream of the vent assembly such that the sensor port is in pneumatic communication with the air within the plenum chamber in any position of the vent assembly; and a sensor in pneumatic communication with the air within the plenum chamber via the sensor port.

A head frame apparatus is secured to a human head during maxillofacial surgery and includes devices to easily position and secure an endotracheal (breathing) tube and an anesthesia delivery circuit for the patient that reduces the likelihood that the flow of oxygen through the tube is restricted thereby reducing the risk of severe injury or death. The head frame apparatus also includes a removable reference indicator, which may be easily attached and removed while identifying a reference point of the patient's face. Also the reference indicator includes a universal joint and pointer with an attached ruler. A transport apparatus positions multiple preset reference indicators and allows for preoperative transportation and removal, while protecting the preset reference indicators from inadvertent adjustment. A bendable reference indicator used in an articulator for preoperative modeling allows for easily identifying reference points in a cast model. An orbiting segment apparatus positions a portion of a cast of a jaw in relation to a condyle ball of the articulator.