Abstract:
A system and method of alerting a patient of a medical device problem is disclosed. The system includes a medical device having a triggerable alarm, a processing device in communication with the medical device, and an output device in communication with the processing device. The processing device detects when the alarm of the medical device is triggered and activates the output device. The output device generates a stimulus when activated, and the stimulus is sufficient to wake the patient or the patient's caregiver while sleeping.
Abstract:
A micro, single piece, tubeless, cordless, directly inserted oral, nasal or hybrid sleep apnea treatment /anti-snoring device having controlled positive air-flow using a micro-blower to maintain an individual's upper airway unobstructed (pharynx area) with or without lower jaw, mandibular advancement is disclosed. The device has built-in sensors, microprocessor and other items required for data acquisition and transfer.
Abstract:
Apparatuses (including devices, kits, and systems) and methods to non-invasively and chemically (rather than thermally) activate thermoreceptors to modulate sleep. For example, described herein are apparatuses including topical compositions that stimulate thermoreceptors on the subject's skin (e.g., forehead, hands, and/or feet) for a period of time to induce a sensation of temperature (heat or cold) without significantly altering the person's actual skin temperature to improve sleep quality, including reducing sleep-onset latency, enhancing depth of sleep, and/or extending the amount of time a subject sleeps. The subject may be suffering from insomnia or some other sleep disorder.
Abstract:
The operational parameters of a respiratory apparatus can be controlled through the use of a user interface located on a separate or separable mobile computing device. Sensors or features located on the mobile computing apparatus can be used to adjust the operation parameters or therapy of the respiratory apparatus or otherwise improve the compliance of a patient utilizing the respiratory apparatus.
Abstract:
Techniques associated with a combination speaker and light source ("speaker-light device") responsive to states of an organism based on sensor data are described, including generating chemical sensor data in response to one or more chemicals sensed by one or more chemical sensors in the same or different speaker-light devices. A scent generator may be activated to counter an odor caused by a chemical detected by the chemical sensor(s). The speaker-light device may activate an air mover operative to circulate ambient air over the chemical sensor. The speaker-light device may take an appropriate action in response to detected chemicals that affect states of the organism. Some or all of the actions taken may be taken by other devices in communication with the speaker-light device(s). An action may include generating and presenting a path or route to be taken by a user to an area of safety or reduced chemical concentration.
Abstract:
A sleep system including a thermal pad and a thermal control unit in thermal communication with the thermal pad. The thermal controller is configured to automatically adjusts a temperature of the thermal pad during a sleep cycle time according a programmed routine. During the preprogrammed routine, the thermal control unit maintains the temperature in the thermal pad at a first temperature T1. After a first time period S1 from the initiation of the sleep cycle, the thermal control unit adjusts the temperature in the thermal pad a ΔΤ, for example to a second temperature T2. The second temperature T2 is dependent of the first, preset, temperature T1 and the ΔΤ. The thermal pad temperature is maintained at the second temperature T2 for a majority of the sleep cycle. At a time period S2 before the end of the sleep cycle, the temperature in the thermal pad 12 adjusted a ΔΤ to a third temperature T3.
Abstract:
System and method of all-night sleep management integrates the sleep cycle into the wake cycle with the result that the individual's sense of wholeness and overall well-being is promoted and improved day-in-day-out. In different embodiments, the system and method of all-night sleep management provides audio that a media player plays without potentially disruptive transitions to help people to manage tinittus or help babies or others to fall and stay asleep or to prevent failing to fall asleep or to prevent waking up of otherwise sensitive sleepers and provides an audio, video or other signal that an audio, video or other media player plays incorporating pacing, binaural beats, waveform manipulation, brainwave entrainment, light frequency, amplitude and color modulation or other techniques to draw people from the awake state, through one or more initial, staged intermediate sleep stages and back into the awake state. The media may be prerecorded media or may be provided by a programmed controller in response to user input selection.
Abstract:
Methods, devices and systems for improving sleep (including reducing sleep onset and maintenance of sleep duration), enhancing, or increasing sleep, including (but not limited to) treating sleeping disorders such as insomnia.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system and method for enhancing alertness and performance, in particular for recovering or enhancing alertness of vehicle drivers, the system comprising at least one drowsiness detector (20, 22, 24) for detecting at least one first signal at least partially indicative of a physiological state of a subject (16), a trigger controller (30) for initiating a recovery procedure under consideration of the at least one first signal, the recovery procedure comprising a sleep onset stage (84), a resting stage (88) and an alertness enhancement stage (92), at least one recovery sensor (64) for detecting at least one second signal attributable to a recovery-related physiological state of the subject (16), a recovery stimulator device (50) for selectively influencing the recovery-related physiological state of the subject (16), the recovery stimulator device (50) comprising at least one light source (52, 54) for selectively administering light to the subject (16), and a recovery controller (48) configured for controlling the recovery stimulator device (50) under consideration of the at least one detected second signal, at least while executing the recovery procedure.