Abstract:
A laser beam, the wavelength of which is modulated periodically, emitted from a variable-wavelength semiconductor laser (11) is intensity-modulated periodically by an attenuator (12). This laser beam is separated into optical paths (13a, 13b) by a beam splitter (14) and applied via the optical path (13a) to a portion (17) at which a blood sugar level is to be measured. The intensity of the transmitting light through or reflected light of the object portion (17) and that of a laser beam in the optical path (13b) are detected by first and second detectors (21, 22) respectively, and a ratio of one of the intensities to the other is detected by a logarithmic ratio amplifier (25). A variation ratio of this ratio to a variation of a wavelength modulating wavelength is detected by a lock-in amplifier (26), and a differential spectrum signal of the absorption spectrum of glucose at the object portion is taken out from this variation rate. An arithmetic processing unit (27) is adapted to detect a blood sugar level of the object portion on the basis of this differential spectrum signal.
Abstract:
A method for in vivo determination of the concentration in a body fluid of metabolically significant substances comprises storing of a needle with a sensor in a liquid-filled ampoule, brief insertion of the needle into a patient, recording of the output signal from the sensor, withdrawal of the needle, and calculation of the concentration looked for on the basis of the recorded signals. The method is preformed using an apparatus comprising a needle (5) with a sensor (6), an ampoule (1) containing a solution (2) and closed by two membranes (3, 4). The needle (5) is stored with its sensor (6) in the solution. The apparatus further comprises a mechanical unit for driving the needle (5) to protrude from the ampoule for a set moment, and an electronic unit storing the output signal from the sensor (6) and performing calculations on the basis of the stored signal values. The needle with its sensor (6) and the ampoule with the solution (2) are independent disposable parts mounted in a durable part containing the mechanical and electronic parts.
Abstract:
A blood sampler comprises a cup shaped positioning part having a bottom (1) and a sidewall (2) and a sampling part having a bottom (4) and a sidewall (5). In the bottom (1) of the positioning part there is provided a central opening (9), which at the outer side of the cup is surrounded by a spacing ring (3). The sampling part has a needle (8) centrally through is bottom (4), which needle has at the outside of the sampling part a sharp end and inside the sampling part a sample collector (10). The sampling part fit displaceably into the positioning part with the sharp end of its needle (8) facing the opening (9) in the bottom (1) of this positioning part, but is by a snap lock (6, 7) releasably locked in a position with its bottom (4) near the upper edge of the positioning part. A cup shaped transparent cap (11) fits with its open end into the open end of the sampling part. In use the spacing ring (8) is pressed against the skin (12) by a finger (13) pressing the cap (11) until the snap lock (6, 7) releases and the sampling part passes into the positioning part with its needle (8) projecting through the opening (9) in the bottom (1) of this positioning part into the skin (12).
Abstract:
A blood sampler comprises a small chamber (5) having a stiletto (7) mounted air-tightly through a flexible top wall (4) with a pointed end of the stiletto (7) positioned inside the chamber opposite an opening (3) in a bottom part (1) of the chamber (5). The sampler is designed to be mounted in a tool which compresses the chamber by pressing the flexible top wall against the bottom of the chamber. Further, the tool has means for imparting an impact on a blunt outer end of the stiletto (7) to drive this stiletto further through the top wall to make its sharp end protrude through the opening (3) in the bottom part (1) into the skin to which the sampler may be attached by an adhesive (10). When the sampler is ejected from the tool it regains its original shape providing in the chamber (5) a vacuum sucking blood from the perforated skin into this chamber.
Abstract:
A device (1) for extracting body fluid in which depression of a plunger (4) into a tubular body (2) during a preparatory stroke creates a pressure reduction in a first chamber (12). After the preparatory stroke, the pressure reduction in the first chamber (12) exerts a force on a piston (3) to cause it to move and thereby to draw body fluid into a second chamber (15). The rate of extraction of the body fluid is governed by a frictional force on the plunger (4) which can be controlled by a cam arrangement (5).
Abstract:
A device for withdrawing body fluids with a withdrawal device (1) connected to a hollow needle (6) has a storage system (3) with a plurality of separate sample containers (4) arranged on a mobile holder. The containers are hermetically sealed with a membrane (5) which can be punctured and receive collected fractions of the body fluid at given time-intervals. A device (7) connected to a control device (2) can be positioned above each of the sample containers (4) in succession and can be introduced into the sample container through the membrane (5). The withdrawal device (1) is designed as a double-lumen cannula (18), one lumen (19) being connected through a first connecting line (25) to the hollow needle (6), which can be introduced into the sample containers (4), and the other lumen (20) being connected through a second connecting line (26) to a pump (8'; 21) which can be actuated by the control device (2). The individual unfilled sample containers (4) contain a quantity of gas or mixture of gases whose volume under atmospheric pressure is less than the volume of the body fluid to be withdrawn.
Abstract:
A plaster for use in blood sampling in which plaster (4) a perforation is provided, and with a sump (1, 2) of a liquid impermeable material provided along the circumference of said perforation (3).
Abstract:
Apparatus for the selective taking of desired body liquids without any air and with no contamination risk for the operator. The needle (4) is fixed to a syringe comprised of a cylinder (5) and a first piston (8) called ''piston'' in the text, the bottom of the cylinder (5) and of the piston (8) being nested either directly or via a pad (12) which is dissolvable when entering in contact with the liquid, and the piston is provided at its center (14) with a longitudinal hollow opening so that a second piston (2), called ''cannula'' in the text may easily slide therein. The cannula (2) penetrates also the needle (4) up to its extremity and the cannula (2) is movable either passively under the effect of the liquid pressure so that the cannula acts as a reference device to indicate that the needle (4) has just penetrated the liquid compartment searched for, or actively, manipulated by the operator.
Abstract:
A perfected needle for multiple vacuum blood sample devices, of the type composed of double opposed coplanar but not parallel needles (1, 2) connected by a length (12) that is oblique to them, and covered by a rigid length (15), such that the relevant test tube carrying cylinder (9), technically known as the ''HOLDER'', is not coaxial to the needle (1) to be introduced in the vein, the said second needle (2) being inclined with respect to the geometrical axis (18) of the test tube (4) so that the outflowing blood strikes against only the lateral walls (4a) of the test tube (4), and does so with the minimum angle of incidence.
Abstract:
The information on a living body, such as the degree of oxygen saturation in the arterial blood and the pulse rate, which are measured with an oximeter itself, can be stored along with the information on the measurement time in a memory device, such as an IC card, which is detachable from the oximeter itself. When the memory device is detached from the oximeter itself to be attached to a data analyzer provided separately from the oximeter itself, the stored information on the living body can be analyzed by the data analyzer, and the results of the analysis can be represented by means of a graph. When a printer, which is provided separately from the oximeter itself, is attached thereto, the information on the living body which has been measured can be printed. Furthermore when a transmitter unit for a telemetry unit is attached to the oximeter itself with a receiver unit therefor connected to the data analyzer which is provided separately from the oximeter itself, the information on the living body, which has been measured with the oximeter itself, can be transmitted to the data analyzer without passing through a cord.