The present invention relates to an apparatus for providing respiratory assistance to a user via a user conduit. The apparatus being operable in a humidifying mode and a non-humidifying mode, and includes a humidification chamber for containing an amount of water that can be located in an operating position in the humidifying mode and, optionally separate from the apparatus in the non-humidifying mode. The apparatus may also have an auxiliary flow path that can be activated in the non-humidifying mode and a powered device that heats water in the humidification chamber when the apparatus is in the humidifying mode.

Provided are thermally-insulated components that include a first tube enclosing a second tube, the first tube having individual corrugations or one or more helical or other corrugations. The corrugations can be non-perpendicular relative to the major axis of the tube, and the second tube and first tube can define a sealed insulating space of reduced pressure therebetween.

A multi-stage system for warming blood that enables safe and rapid blood transfusions in the field. The first stage of the system is a rapid blood warming device that heats blood quickly from cold storage to body temperature. This stage may use a high-energy power source, such as AC power, that is available in a facility such as a hospital. The second stage is a portable heated blood transport device into which heated blood bags are placed for transportation to a patient. This device keeps the blood bags warm using battery power. Because blood bags are pre-heated with the rapid warming device, the transport device can be lightweight and portable. An optional third stage is a transfusion temperature regulating device that boosts the final temperature of blood just before it enters the patient. All three devices may have sensors and controllers that maintain blood temperature within desired ranges.

Vaporizer and/or electronic cigarette chargers useful for the recharging of rechargeable vaporizer or electronic cigarette power supplies such as batteries, compatible vaporizers and/or electronic cigarettes, their components, charging contacts, methods of their use and kits containing such chargers are disclosed.

The present disclosure relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a medicament receiving element, at least one fluid chamber having a fluid outlet configured to direct fluid vapour towards the medicament receiving element, a heating element for heating the fluid in the at least one fluid chamber. The device is configured such that, in use, the heating element heats the fluid in the at least one fluid chamber to at least partially evaporate the fluid so that the vapor pressure in the at least one fluid chamber increases until the fluid is expelled out of the at least one fluid chamber through the fluid outlet towards the medicament receiving element and entrains the medicament towards the patient's skin.

An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having a chamber; an induction coil disposed around at least a portion of the chamber; a heating compartment configured to receive an aerosol-generating article and being detachably insertable into the chamber of the housing, the heating compartment including a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the aerosol-generating article; and a heating element arrangeable within the cavity of the heating compartment, the heating element extending into the cavity in a longitudinal direction of the cavity, and being configured to penetrate an aerosol-forming substrate in the aerosol-generating article and received in the cavity.

A method and device are used for administering a humidified aerosol to a patient interface by providing and guiding a first gas flow having a humidified aerosol, a second gas flow having humidified respiratory gases, and a liquid flow of a thermally balancing liquid, thermally balancing the first and second gas flow by parallel guiding the first and second gas flow such that the first and second gas flow are guided in a manner that they are at least partially surrounded by the liquid flow of the thermally balancing liquid, mixing the first and second gas flow to obtain enriched respiratory gases having the humidified aerosol, and administering the enriched respiratory gases to the patient interface. The method and the device avoid the administration of dry or re-dried powdered aerosols and unwanted accumulation of and blockage by powdered material. The device is useful in respiratory support of preterm infants.

A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, including a liquid storage portion including a housing containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the housing having an open end; and a heater assembly including: an electrical heating element configured to heat the substrate to form an aerosol, the heating element including a planar filament arrangement having one or more electrically conductive filaments, an electrically insulating substrate having a planar attachment face, the filament arrangement disposed on the planar attachment face, and clamping elements mechanically fixing the filament arrangement to the electrically insulating substrate and applying a pulling force onto the filament arrangement, at least a portion of the heater assembly being fluid-permeable, and the heater assembly being arranged over the open end of the housing.

An information processing device provided with a control part, wherein the control part: generates a display image for displaying a profile that is information indicating time series variation in a parameter regarding an operation for generating an aerosol, the operation being performed by an inhalation device for generating the aerosol by using a base material; and modifies the profile and the display of the profile in the display image in accordance with the user operation with respect to the parameter to be operated in the generated display image.

An information processing device includes a control unit that generates a display image in which a profile and puff detection timing-related information are associated and displayed, the profile being information that relates to an operation performed by an inhalation device that uses a substrate to generate an aerosol, the operation generating the aerosol, and the puff detection timing being the timing at which user inhalation of the aerosol generated by the inhalation device was detected.