Oridion Medical 1987 Ltd.

Scitex Inc.

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Creo Il. Ltd.

Children's Medical Center Corporation

Oridion Medical Ltd.

Oridion Breathid Ltd

Exalenz Bioscience Ltd.

Medtronic Physio-control Corp.

Ephraim A Carlebach

Rafail Bronstein

Baruch Shlomo Krauss

Ehud Spiegel

Ilan Ben-Oren

Julian Daich

Gershon Levitsky

Avigdor Bieber

Lewis Colman

Daniel E Katzman

Miriam Bareket

George Yariv

Boaz Givron

Daniel Katzman

David R Hampton

Ilan Ben Oren

Boaz Giron

Moshe Broudo

Baruch Schlomo Krauss

Baruch Shlomo Kraus

Aryeh Ben-Yosef

Baruch Kraus

Improved apparatus and methods for monitoring, diagnosing and treating at least one medical respiratory condition of a patient are provided, including a medical data input interface adapted to provide at least one medical parameter relating at least to the respiration of the patient, and a medical parameter interpretation functionality () adapted to receive the at least one medical parameter relating at least to the respiration () of the patient and to provide at least one output indication () relating to a degree of severity of at least one medical condition indicated by the at least one medical parameter.

Automated interpretive medical care system and methodology

The present invention relates to the field of methods and apparatus for the determination of various conditions of gastric and gastro-intestinal malfunction, especially those performed by means of breath tests.

Management of gastro-intestinal disorders

Methods of determining gastro-intestinal conditions by performing a succession of breath tests or others tests, particularly for determining the gastric emptying or gastric accomodation condition of a subject. Methods of performing successive gastric emptying tests with different test meals are also presented, enabling the gastric accommodation to be determined. The effects of different test means on the results is presented. Novel substrates for use in such tests are suggested, including the use of micro-encapsulation. Breath tests for the detection of bacterial overgrowth, lactose intolerance and combinations thereof are presented.

A diaphragm pump and a method for aligning thereof, the pump including an electric motor, a motor shaft, driven by the electric motor for rotation about an electric motor shaft axis, an eccentric drive, driven by the electric motor, via the motor shaft, to provide reciprocal driving along a pump driving axis, the eccentric drive including an eccentric drive shaft rotating about an eccentric drive shaft axis, the eccentric drive shaft axis being coaxial with the electric motor shaft axis, a non-rigid coupling interconnecting the motor shaft and the eccentric drive shaft and a diaphragm pumping assembly having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet communicating with a pumping chamber, the pumping chamber having a diaphragm arranged to be reciprocally driven about the pump driving axis.

Diaphragm pump

Breath test methods and apparatus for increasing accuracy and reducing the time taken to achieve diagnostically useful results. In order to determine when an increase in isotopic ratio of the exhaled breath is clinically significant, methods are described for the use of a variable and multiple threshold level; for reducing the time taken to determine an accurate baseline level; and for avoiding the effects of oral activity when making measurements. To increase measurement accuracy, methods are described, using the results of the breath tests themselves, of continuous and automatic self-calibration to correct for drifts in the gas spectrometer absorption curves. A method for increasing the spectral stability of cold cathode discharge infra-red light sources for use in breath test instrumentation is described. Calibration checking devices and methods of mandating their use at regular time intervals are described, to ensure maintenance of the accuracy of breath tests.

Spectrally stable infra red discharge lamps

A method of automatically selecting screen characteristics value to be used for printing a color image, comprising the steps of: forming a digital representation of the color image, the digital representation comprising a plurality of separations; dividing at least one of the plurality of separations into a plurality of regions; and assigning at least one screen characteristic value to each of the plurality of regions.

Selective screening method

An NDIR spectrometer based on the use of wavelength specific lamp sources, whose emission spectrum consists of discrete, narrow lines characteristic of the isotope present in the lamp, and which it is desired to measure with the spectrometer. This allows very high intrinsic sensitivity, enabling the use of an extremely compact absorption cell with a very short path length. In addition, the source can be self-modulated, such that problems associated with external choppers are avoided. Furthermore, there is insignificant cross sensitivity between the isotopes themselves and between the isotopes and other ambient gases in the operating environment.

Isotopic gas analyzer

A capnograph which performs an analysis of the breath waveforms measured by the carbon dioxide sensor, interprets the results of this analysis, and outputs to the operator diagnostic information about the respiratory status of the patient, or about the adequacy of the breathing support provided to the patient. The instrument compares a number of parameters characteristic of the waveforms of the patient's breath with an internal library of the values of those parameters expected from normal waveforms stored in its memory. These parameters may either relate to specific features of the waveform in the time domain, or may characterize spectral components of the waveform in the frequency domain. The capnographic waveform analysis may be combined with further non-invasive measurements in order to provide an indication of the deviation of the value of EtCOfrom PaCO.

Waveform interpreter for respiratory analysis

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Ra'anana, Israel

Ephraim A Carlebach