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Kurin, Inc.

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Baxter International Inc.

Baxter Healthcare Sa

Carefusion 2200, Inc.

Babyation Inc.

Alliance Vascular Devices, LLC

Sotera Wireless, Inc.

Helios Medical Ventures LLC

Arthur Deptala

Jonas Dean Cochran

Marshal Singh Dhillon

Matthew J Banet

Susan Meeks Pede

Lauren Nicole Miller Hayward

David Karl Stroup

Bobby E Rogers

Lonnie C Pogue

John Detloff

Gino Kang

Brian Macowski

Daniel Alvarez, Jr

Mark Dhillon

Samantha Rudolph

Jared Miller

Alexander David Deptala

Jonas Cochran

Kevin S Nason

Chad Garrett

Corey Feit

David Stroup

Jose Felix Jacquez, Jr

A filter system comprising a filter cartridge and a filter insert, wherein the filter cartridge has an internal main suction path and an internal bottle suction path. Positioned on the internal main suction path is an internal main suction path vent hole, and positioned on the internal bottle suction path is an internal bottle suction vent hole. Positioned between the internal bottle suction path and the internal bottle suction vent hole is an internal bottle suction path filter element, wherein the filter insert is configured to engage sealingly, moveably and releasably with the filter cartridge. The filter insert has two suction ports that align with the internal main suction path vent hole and the internal bottle suction vent hole when engaged with the filter cartridge.

Filter system

Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration device can include a sequestration chamber for sequestering an initial, potentially contaminated aliquot of blood, and may further include a sampling channel that bypasses the sequestration chamber to convey likely uncontaminated blood between the patient needle and the sample needle after the initial aliquot of blood is sequestered in the sequestration chamber.

Blood contaminant sequestration device with one-way air valve and air-permeable blood barrier with closure mechanism

A handheld device measures all vital signs and some hemodynamic parameters from the human body and transmits measured information wirelessly to a web-based system, where the information can be analyzed by a clinician to help diagnose a patient. The system utilizes our discovery that bio-impedance signals used to determine vital signs and hemodynamic parameters can be measured over a conduction pathway extending from the patient's wrist to a location on their thoracic cavity, e.g. their chest or navel. The device's form factor can include re-usable electrode materials to reduce costs. Measurements made by the handheld device, which use the belly button as a 'fiducial' marker, facilitate consistent, daily measurements, thereby reducing positioning errors that reduce accuracy of standard impedance measurements. In this and other ways, the handheld device provides an effective tool for characterizing patients with chronic diseases, such as heart failure, renal disease, and hypertension.

Handheld physiological sensor

A medical infusion device including a chamber characterized by an upper body joined to a lower body via a reversibly collapsible sidewall. The upper body has a first channel fluidly coupled to a needle and a second channel fluidly coupled to an interior of the chamber. The chamber transitions from a collapsed state to the expanded state to retract the needle by introducing fluid into the interior of the chamber through the second channel.

Medical infusion device and methods of use

A breast pump system is provided with a suction tubing and a milk tubing, wherein the suction tubing and milk tubing each have first and second ends, and comprise a unitary tube structure. The system includes a first connector that has a first portion for coupling to a breast pump and the suction tubing, and a second portion for coupling to a milk bottle and the milk tubing. The system also includes a second connector that has a first portion coupled to a suction port of a breast shield and the suction tubing, and a second portion coupled to a breast milk collecting port and the milk tubing. A breast shield system with a flexible diaphragm and a cover is provided that may be coupled to the breast pump system. A dual suction path filter cartridge is also provided.

Breast shield for a breast pump system

A blood sequestration device includes an inlet path, an outlet path, a sequestration chamber, and a sampling channel. The sequestration chamber is connected with the inlet path by a junction and is configured to receive a first portion of blood through the inlet path. The sequestration chamber has a vent that allows air to be displaced by the first portion of blood, the junction being configured to inhibit a return to the inlet path of any of the first portion of blood received by the sequestration chamber. The sampling channel is connected between the inlet path and the outlet path, and configured to convey subsequent amounts of blood between the inlet path and the outlet path after the first amount of blood is received by the sequestration chamber.

Blood contaminant sequestration device with passive fluid control junction

Blood sample optimization system and blood contaminant sequestration device and method

A stand-on physiological sensor (e.g. floormat) measures vital signs and various hemodynamic parameters, including blood pressure and ECG waveforms. The sensor is similar in configuration to a common bathroom scale and includes electrodes that take electrical measurements from a patient's feet to generate bioimpedance waveforms, which are analyzed digitally to extract various other parameters, as well as a cuff-type blood pressure system that takes physical blood pressure measurements at one of the patient's feet. Blood pressure can also be calculated/derived from the bioimpedance waveforms. Measured parameters are transmitted wirelessly to facilitate remote monitoring of the patient for heart failure, chronic heart failure, end-stage renal disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and other degenerative diseases.

Floormat physiological sensor

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Santee, CA, United States of America

Arthur Deptala