摘要:
In conjunction with the diagnosis of conditions in and treatment of the lungs, a small amount of NO is supplied to the lungs in some cases. A gas mixture for this purpose is disclosed in which an inert, non-toxic trace gas is present in an exact concentration in relation to NO, in order to simply and safely control the amount of NO then supplied to the lungs. The amount of NO supplied can be determined by determining the concentration of the trace gas. A method and device for administering breathing gas to a patient together with the aforementioned gas mixture are also disclosed.
摘要:
A device which supplies breathing gas mixed with an additive gas to a patient for pulmonary diagnosis or pulmonary treatment includes a gas mixing unit through which a relatively large flow of breathing gas is achieved from a first gas source through a first pressure regulator and a second pressure regulator. The breathing gas passes through a connecting tube from which the patient can breathe spontaneously through an inspiration tube, thereby inhaling air from the connecting tube. Expired gas passes via an expiration tube to the connecting tube. Additive gas is supplied from a separate gas source via a second pressure regulator and a second flow regulator. The additive gas is supplied in a flow which is considerably smaller than the flow of breathing gas, permitting a very small but accurate concentration of the additive gas to be achieved in the breathing gas. The large flow prevents a reactive additive gas from reacting before being supplied to the patient.
摘要:
In a method an apparatus for vaporizing anesthetic liquids, in which a carrier gas is passed through a vaporizer so as to be saturated with vaporized anesthetic liquid, the vaporizer has a container, partially filled with anesthetic liquid, an inlet for a carrier gas, an outlet for carrier gas saturated with anesthetic and a pressure chamber. The carrier gas is supplied to the vaporizer at a pressure exceeding atmospheric pressure and is bubbled through the anesthetic liquid in the container in order to become saturated with anesthetic. The flow of gas at the outlet can be regulated as needed. Exact pressure and temperature conditions can be measured and/or regulated with a pressure meter, pressure regulator, thermometer and temperature regulator in order to regulate the partial pressure of anesthetic in the container.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for independent monitoring of a flow-through quantity and, potentially, of a concentration of a gas flow that is extremely small in comparison to a respiratory gas flow is provided. The valve for the control of this small gas flow can not be controlled via the overall gas flow. In order to be able to simply and reliably monitor the flow-through quantity and the concentration of this small gas flow without a gas analyzer and independently of gas flow regulators that are usually present, it is provided that the small gas flow be separately measured and compared to a value derived from the respiratory gas flow. Given the presence of prescribable criteria, an alarm is triggered and the flow-through quantity of the small gas flow is, for example, interrupted.
摘要:
In a method and a ventilator device for measuring the functional residual capacity, FRC, of lungs, a trace gas is mixed with a breathing gas in a gas mixer and the mixture os fed into the lungs via an inspiratory tube. When a predetermined concentration of trace gas is achieved in the lungs, the supply of trace gas is stopped, and a washout phase starts. During the washout phase, the concentration of trace gas in expired gas and the flow of expired gas are measured. The measurement values are sent to an analyzer which calculates the volume of trace gas in the lungs. Functional residual capacity can then be determined from the calculated volume of trace gas. The trace gas is preferably SF.sub.6.
摘要:
According to some aspects, a product tracking system, including a tracking module adapted to be affixed to a wall or other mounting location adjacent a receptacle for receiving products therein. The tracking module is operable to track products as they are discarded in the receptacle. The tracking module also includes at least one of a product detector, a patient detector, and an adding module.
摘要:
A inventory information system having an inventory station having an array of unique locations defined thereon; a plurality of indicators, each of the indicators being associated with each of the locations; a plurality of tags, each of the tags having an identifier associated therewith; at least one detector operable to obtain identifier associated with one of the tags when the tag is positioned at one of the locations; and a processor operatively coupled to the at least one detector and the plurality of indicators. The processor is configured to receive the identifier and to determine an inventory status of at least one product associated with the identifier, and operate the indicator associated the location where the tag based upon the inventory status to provide information about the inventory status.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method of producing a movable lens structure that comprises the steps of: forming a lens from a lens material disposed on a carrier of another material (step 58), and forming a micromechanical structure from the carrier (step 60), wherein the forming of the lens takes place before the forming of the micromechanical structure. With this method a simplified production method is obtained that simplifies difficult compatibility requirements between micromechanics and lens that can otherwise be hard to meet.
摘要:
Radio channel resources are allocated in a radio communications system based on whether a requested data communication requested is associated with a symmetric service or an asymmetric service. If the data communication is associated with a symmetric service, a symmetric connection between the mobile radio station and the radio network is established for communicating data packets associated with the data communication. Radio channel resources are assigned to the symmetric connection for transporting the data packets between the mobile radio station and the radio network. The symmetric connection is assigned substantially the same amount of radio channel resources in an uplink direction as in a downlink direction. In one example, the symmetric data communication is a voice over IP (VoIP) communication. One example environment is a GPRS/EDGE type system where the radio channel resources are time slots and the symmetric connection includes an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) and a downlink TBF.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for making porous cross-linked charged cellulosic polymeric membranes capable of binding to a target molecule. The invention provides methods for separating target molecules from other components in a solution comprising use of membranes obtainable by the process of the invention. The method has particular utility in separating proteins and nucleic acids from cell lysates and cultures.