Abstract:
La presente invencion se refiere a un dispositivo cortante de la piel para extraer de manera indolora cantidades pequeñas de sangre del tejido de un ser humano o de un animal. Una hoja (13) se hace vibrar por medio de un oscilador (14, 32), se baja lentamente hacia el tejido y es retirada nuevamente. En una primera modalidad, la hoja vibra substancialmente en una direccion paralela con respecto al borde cortante de la hoja y con respecto a la superficie del tejido. En la segunda modalidad, la hoja vibra substancialmente en la direccion perpendicular con respecto a la superficie del tejido. La ventaja de los dispositivos descritos es que el dolor provocado por la picadura es reducido.
Abstract:
Se describe un dispositivo de manejo de fluido que tiene un ensamble de retraccion de aguja adaptado para llevar a cabo la retraccion de una aguja hueca después de usarse que comprende una porcion de cuerpo hueca provista en un extremo de la misma con una pared extrema que tiene una porcion de montaje incluyendo un pasaje de aguja, y una aguja hueca que tiene un medio de montaje y adaptada para ser movible entre una primera posicion en donde una porcion extrema de conduccion de la aguja sale de una porcion extrema frontal de dicha porcion de montaje y una segunda posicion en donde la aguja es sacada dentro de la porcion de cuerpo hueca, dicho medio de montaje que incluye medios elásticos que actuan para desviar la aguja en la segunda posicion sacada, dicha aguja provista con una porcion alargada en una ubicacion separada de la porcion extrema de conduccion de la misma, al proveer medios retenedores para mantener la aguja en su primera posicion hasta que el uso es completado, dichos medios retenedores que comprenden en combinacion un anillo o colocado en una ranura circunferencial en dicha porcion alargada y que se apoyan en el extremo del manguito que puede ser forzado hacia adelante para desalojar el anillo o para así permitir a la aguja moverse desde su primera posicion en su segunda posicion bajo la influencia de dichos medios elásticos.
Abstract:
A multiple sample needle assembly useful in collecting liquid samples from a source comprises a housing (12) with a chamber therein. A first cannula (14) is in fluid communication with the chamber and is adapted for insertion into a liquid source. A second cannula (15) is also in fluid communication with the chamber and is adapted to deliver liquid passing through the chamber to a liquid collector (16). A gas-permeable, liquid-impermeable porous member is positioned in the lumen of the second cannula (15). The second cannula preferably includes at least one side hole and an operable valve (41) for collecting liquid from the second cannula (15) by diverting liquid flowing therethrough away from the liquid-impermeable member.
Abstract:
A lancet injector is provided which has an elongated housing (12), a slidable lancet holder (16) in the housing, a compression spring (34) connected between the holder (16) and one end of the housing (20), and a control member (48) for moving the holder (16). The control member (48) is operable to move the lancet holder (16) to a latched retracted position against the force of the spring, release the holder so that it moves linearly under the force of the spring and inertia to a skin piercing position and then back to a neutral position in which the spring is in a free length condition.
Abstract:
Dem Verfahren und der Vorrichtung zur kolorimetri schen Bestimmung der Konzentration eines im Blut gelösten Stoffes, insbesondere Gases liegt eine bichromatische Mes sung an einem den Stoff vorzugsweise auf transkutanem Wege aufnehmenden, langzeitstabilen opto-chemischen Wandler (6) zugrunde. Der Wandler (6) wird mit zwei diskreten Wellenlängenwerten λ₀ und λ 1,2 beaufschlagt, von denen λ₀ dem isosbestischen Wellenlängenwert entspricht und λ 1,2 in einem Spektralbereich deutlicher Abhängigkeit des Extinktionsmoduls des Wandlers (6) liegt. Das Wandler meßsignal wird elektronisch in ein Farbwertesignal B(p) λ,τ umgesetzt, gegen vorgespeicherte Standard- Farbwertesignale verglichen und bestimmten ebenfalls vor gespeicherten Stoffkonzentratioswerten zugeordnet. Bei ein er ersten Verfahrensvariante (Differentialverfahren mit Refe renz) beruht das Meßprinzip auf der Abhängigkeit des spektralen Differentialquotienten des Transmissionsgrades τ vom pH-Wert einer Farbstofflösung, während bei einer anderen Verfahrensvariante (Differentialverfahren ohne Re ferenz) die Abhängigkeit des spektralen Differentialquo tienten
Abstract:
Apparatus suitable for use in a cutaneous method of analysing body substrates comprising: (i) an enzyme implant which is adapted for insertion into the body of a mammal and contains an enzyme which is reactable with the substrate to be measured to produce a detectable change in the skin of the mammal, and (ii) analysing means for analysing said change in the skin as a measure of the amount of substrate in the body A condition of the skin may be used to measure a number of important substances which diffuse through or are present within the skin. The enzyme implant is implanted in the skin I and enzymatic reaction with the substrate to be measured takes place, the by-products being detected as a measure of the amount of substrate. Measurements of oxygen, hydrogen peroxide and carbon dioxide levels may be taken using polarographic electrodes and colorimetric detection may also be used.
Abstract:
Structural systems and method are employed including a multiplicity of computers to control the acquisition and enhancement of skilled performance or behavior. Pre-processing computers (8 and 24) each accept signals from any corresponding one of a variety of physiological or other signal transducers either in close proximity to the computer or transmitted to the computer via a telemetering system. The pre-processing computer calculates a number of different measures of this signal and makes the results known to one or more other computers. These other or auxiliary computers control presentation of a display of the data for a human observer, and perform additional calculations which determine if the processed data is within a predetermined range. This range may be a function of time and/or other variables. A measure of the error between the allowed range and the processed data is computed within these auxiliary computers. These results may be used to alter the display. They are also returned to the pre-processing computer where they may alter the pre-processing calculations. Alteration of the display and the pre-processing calculations are adapted to improve skilled performance and behavior without the intervention of a human operator other than the user.
Abstract:
Eine Blutaufbewahrungsvorrichtung weist ein Blutauf nahmeröhrchen (20) und einen dessen obere Öffnung ver schliessenden, abnehmbaren Deckel (12) auf. Der Deckel (12) besteht aus einem Verschlussstück (21) mit einer klei nen Öffnung (14) und einem in ihm anzuordnenden Schie ber (13), mittels dessen ein Luftdurchgang vom Innenraum (17) des Blutaufnahmeröhrchens (20) durch die Öffnung (14) unterbrochen werden kann.
Abstract:
@ A portable analyzer (10) is disclosed. The analyzer comprises in combination a housing (12), an optical system comprising a light source (10), a detector (16), and one or more means (18) for activating the optical system in generating a signal in response to a test element, means (45) for manually moving the test element (33) from a first position to a second position corresponding to a point of initiation of an operative condition of the optical system, means (46) biasing the moving means toward said first position for controlling movement of the test element from the second position to the first position, means (22, 24, 26) cooperative with said optical system, for processing the signal, and means (54). cooperative with the means for processing the signal, for displaying the processed signal.
Abstract:
@ A blood collector, for a microcollection container (21) having an open end, a closed end and a container side wall therebetween, includes a cap (31) for engaging the open end of a container and an elongate body (36) extending through the cap defining a longitudinal axis and having a blood flow passageway (37) therethrough. The body includes a scoop-shaped distal front end portion (39) adapted to receive blood from a wound and a proximal rear end portion (38) terminating in a proximal edge for carrying blood to an interior surface of the container side wall (25). Vent means is provided in said cap for air displacement therethrough. The rear end portion (38) includes a generally longitudinally extending discontinuity (47) interrupting the proximal edge for up to substantially about 120° along the periphery of the body in a portion of the rear end portion (39) being substantially adjacent to an interior surface of the container side wall (25) when the cap (31) engages a container (21 The discontinuity (47) includes side walls extending from the blood flow passageway (37) through the body (36).