by Medical Design Briefs - Tech Briefs | Oct 23, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
A stretchable, skin-like device can be attached to a patient’s face and can measure small movements such as a twitch or a smile. Using this approach, patients could communicate a variety of sentiments, such as “I love you” or “I’m hungry,” with small movements that...
by Medgadget Editors | Jul 7, 2020 | Diagnostics, Informatics, Neurology
To monitor, treat, and better understand how seizures arise and develop, scientists and clinicians have been looking for more objective measures and analyses of brain activity. Currently, a typical electroencephalography (EEG) recording of brainwaves throughout a...
by RB | May 16, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
Several techniques can be used to obtain a respiration signal from an ECG. A popular technique used in bedside patient monitors involves measuring transthoracic impedance using the ECG electrodes. Unlike those described below, this method obtains the respiration...
by Medgadget Editors | May 1, 2020 | Cardiology, Diagnostics, Geriatrics, Informatics, Materials, Medicine, Telemedicine
Stretchable electronic technologies offer the potential to monitor the body over extended periods of time in unprecedented ways. The heart’s rhythms, flexion of joints, and other biomedical parameters can be tracked with high fidelity and continuously using devices...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 30, 2020 | Diagnostics, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Radiology
Synaptive Medical is reporting that its Evry MRI scanner has won FDA clearance. The device is designed to make magnetic resonance imaging of the head more accessible, cheaper, and easier to manage than many current systems that require specially-built facilities,...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 29, 2020 | Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Public Health
Because of the common expectation that ventilators would be in dire shortage during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many teams around the world have developed simple ventilators that utilize bag valve masks (AmbuBags) to pump air in and out of the lungs. Most of these...
by RB | Apr 28, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
An Electronic Design hosted Live Broadcast Webinar, sponsored by Mouser Electronics and Cypress Summary: Bluetooth® mesh is a low-power, wireless network with many-to-many node communication for large-scale, extended range networks. Bluetooth Mesh...
by Medgadget Editors | Apr 28, 2020 | Neurology, Neurosurgery, Rehab, Surgery
Spinal cord injuries can leave people paralyzed and without a sense of touch in much of the body. While there’s been a tremendous amount of work in the past decade to overcome paralysis by using brain-computer interfaces to bypass damaged spinal cords, providing a...
by Cici Zhou | Apr 27, 2020 | Anesthesiology, Cardiology, Critical Care, Medicine, Neurology, Public Health, Rehab, Surgery
Lungpacer Medical, based in Vancouver, Canada, announced that its Diaphragm Pacing Therapy (DPT) System received FDA Emergency Use Authorization for use in weaning COVID-19 patients off of ventilators. Patients on prolonged mechanical ventilation may experience...
by Yuksel Temiz | Apr 24, 2020 | Heart Rate Variability
Illustration: James Provost I am a member of a team at IBM Research–Europe, in Zurich, developing microfluidic technologies for medical applications. Two years ago, I was asked to provide high-quality photos and videos of our microfluidic chips for a big tech event. I...
