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Provent Nose Plugs Win Medical Design Award
Ventus Medical Inc. out of Belmont, California won a prize in the Rehabilitation and Assistive-Technology Products category in this year's Medical Design Excellence Awards. The company markets novel nose plugs that help those suffering from obstructive sleep apnea sleep better. By using a valve to increase intranasal pressure when breathing out, clinical studies have shown that patients can use the devices all night for much relief.
Provent™ Professional Sleep Apnea Therapy is a removable nasal appliance placed just inside the nostrils and held in place by adhesive tape. The Provent nasal appliance increases resistance to breathing out (expiration or exhalation) by directing exhaled breath through small holes. The expiratory resistance created by the Provent nasal appliance helps maintain an open airway during sleep.
In clinical studies, the Provent nasal appliance has been shown to help patients with obstructive sleep apnea
(OSA) reduce the number of breathing interruptions (apneas and hypopneas) during the night as compared to when the patients slept without the appliance.
The Provent nasal appliance is a prescription-only device and should be used only after consultation with a
licensed healthcare professional.
Product page: PROVENT™ Professional Sleep Apnea Therapy ...
Starkey S Series Hearing Aids with Drive Architecture Processing
Starkey Laboratories (Eden Prairie, MN) is introducing a new series of hearing aids that promise higher fidelity and smart behavior in different audio situations. Featuring parallel multi-threading processors, the system can calculate specialized algorithms to a greater degree of precision, leading to better sound quality.
PureWave Feedback Eliminator, delivering broader bandwidth, faster processing and intelligent artifact elimination to ensure patients get the best possible performance in every listening environment. S Series models offer up to 25dB of added stable gain for the highest broadband gain margin in the industry.
- Acoustic Scene Analyzer (ASA) is Starkey’s newest integrated system for managing noise and preserving speech recognition that instantly classifies incoming signals based on unique acoustic characteristics. ASA seamlessly selects and implements the most appropriate algorithms individually or collectively, providing the best possible acoustic response at every moment in time. This results in the highest level of patient comfort and
clarity in noise, while emphasizing speech preservation.
- InVision Directionality is designed to perform best in highly complex backgrounds of noise. The industry-leading system boasts the highest DI scores and lowest operational noise floor, helping patients significantly increase their speech understanding in noise.
- AudioScape is Starkey’s new acoustic pattern recognition system that uses patented real-time environment detection and classification to adapt to any listening environment by seamlessly adjusting to a patient’s preferred settings. A channel-specific signal-tonoise ratio calculation ensures that speech is always given the priority.
- Automatic Telephone Solutions (ATS) automatically detects telephone usage and adjusts to the optimal acoustic frequency response for telephone listening.
- T2 (touch-tone) allows your patients to control their hearing aids using any cell or touchtone phone, avoiding the need to carry additional hardware. T2 discreetly and instantly classifies the touch-tone signal and automatically adjusts.
When fit open, S Series has the widest fitting range and usable high-frequency bandwidth of any open fit instrument in its class. The line also includes the new S Series AP (Absolute Power), a patientproven RIC that offers between 60 and 71dB of peak gain, making it the best performing and most powerful RIC on the market. Even patients with severe hearing loss can enjoy the discreet style, design and comfort of a RIC without sacrificing power and performance.
Press release: Starkey Introduces the Next Generation of Hearing Aids: S Series with Drive Architecture
LifeBelt CPR Device Wins in Design Contest
Pictured above is the LifeBelt® CPR, a device from Deca-Medics Inc., of Columbus, Ohio, which has recently won a $20,000 grand prize in the Create the Future Design Contest sponsored by NASA's Tech Briefs Media Group and Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.
NASA Tech Briefs explains what the device is all about:
Developed by Thomas Lach of Deca-Medics Inc., Columbus, OH, LifeBelt overcomes a critical limitation of “hands-only” CPR: the average rescuer is only capable of producing effective chest compressions for about two minutes, far shorter than the typical eight to ten minute emergency response time. With LifeBelt, half as much force is needed, resulting in less fatigue and longer-duration compressions – increasing the likelihood of a successful resuscitation.
The compact, lightweight device is designed to attach quickly, enabling a rescuer to start CPR in 15 seconds or less. An intuitive readout warns if the compression depth is too deep or shallow, giving the rescuer confidence that he or she is pushing properly.
“Most cardiac arrests don’t occur in a hospital or controlled environment,” said Mr. Lach. “They happen at home or at work. This is an easy-to-use product for all of us.”
Product page: LifeBelt...
Full story@NASA Tech Briefs: Life-Saving CPR Device Wins Create The Future Design Contest...
Magnus Operating Table from Maquet
MAQUET has just unveiled improvements to its Magnus operating table, a system that can position the patient into virtually any surgical position, and at the same time accommodate patients weighing up to 250 kilograms.
From the press release:
An optimum exposure area is achieved in combination with gravitational force and the operating table's extreme tilting and tipping functionality. The tilt angle of up to 80º and canting angle of up to 45º combined with the system's fully compatible modules open up virtually unlimited positioning possibilities. "This way a patient weighing up to 250 kilograms can be brought into any possible position. MAGNUS is thus fast approaching its vision of the "floating" patient," so Dr. Engel.
This is of particular significance when it comes to minimally invasive surgery, as it is the table's extreme tilting and tipping function that makes surgical interventions even possible on an obese patient.
With its unique height adjustment range varying between 535 mm (21 Inch) and 1235 mm (49 Inch), the MAGNUS ensures ergonomic and thus relaxed working conditions even during longer operations. The benefits of individual settings are particularly evident during laparoscopic interventions: As the MAGNUS can be lowered further than any other table the surgeon can keep his elbows positioned comfortably at his side and is not forced to revert to a tiring position. The table's unique lowering functionality makes the commonly used step stool to decrease the distance to the surgical field a thing of the past. The larger abdomens of obese patients can be operated on the MAGNUS while maintaining a relaxed and comfortable posture. In contrast to laparoscopic operations, a high table position is required for hip replacement in the dorsal position. This way, the operation which may take up to 90 minutes can be performed in an upright position. If the table cannot be adjusted to the height required, the surgeon is forced to assume a bent over posture which generally results in tension and fatigue.
Besides its settings designed to cater to various indications, the MAGNUS can optimally adjust to the height of the surgeon. The advantage of this comes to the fore when putting the table in an international context: Whereas the height of the average male in Sweden is 181.5 cm (71,4 Inch), the average male in the Philippines is less than 164 cm (64,5 Inch).
Press release (.pdf)...
MAGNUS : Product Features...
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