The Johns Hopkins University

Infinite Biomedical Technologies, LLC

Girish Singhal

Nitish V Thakor

Soumyadipta Acharya

Myron L Weisfeldt

Nimra Taqi

Vanessa C Pau

Neha Malhotra

Courtney C Haswell

Lu Zhao

Hargun S Khanna

Rahul R Kaliki

Yun Long

An assembly may include a plurality of electrode contacts adapted to receive myoelectric signals from a body when placed into contact with the body. The assembly may also include a support structure adapted to support the electrode contacts. The assembly may also include a prosthetic liner, the support structure being embedded in the prosthetic liner. The electrode contacts may be positioned to be extending through openings in the prosthetic liner. The assembly may also include signal processing circuitry adapted to process the myoelectric signals from the body. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Electrode assemblies for detecting muscle signals in a prosthetic liner

Featured is an apparatus an apparatus including a monitoring and sensing means, an electrode patch and a control device operably coupled to each of the sensing means and the electrodes and outputs signals to the electrodes for purposes of stimulating the phrenic nerve to thereby cause breathing by natural contraction of the diaphragm. The control device is configured and arranged to initially localize the phrenic nerve with respect to a given set of electrodes that is effective, when appropriately energized, for stimulating the phrenic nerve to establish negative pressure induced respiration in the body, based on the output signal(s) from the monitoring and sensing means. After such initially localizing; the control device thereafter repetitively outputs stimulation signals via the given set of electrodes so as to thereby continuously stimulate negative pressure induced respiration. Also featured are methods related thereto.

Portable negative pressure ventilation device and methods and software related thereto

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