Diasense, Inc.

Retropsoas Technologies, LLC

James Cupp

Raymond Fowler

Nicholas Poulos

An electrode assembly (preferably in the form of a nerve cuff) comprises a base with first and second arms extending from opposite sides of the base, and which, in combination, define an arc. First and second electrically conductive electrodes extend along the inner surface of the first and second arms. Each electrode can comprise a single length of foil can or can comprise multiple discrete foil segments. The foils are electrically isolated from each other. Electrical wires, which are in electrical communication with the each of the foils, extend from the nerve cuff and are adapted to be electrically connected to a signal monitor. When the nerve cuff is applied to a nerve, the foils, in combination, substantially surround the nerve, with the first and second electrodes being on opposite sides of the nerve from each other. Also disclosed is a method of using the nerve cuff to monitor a nerve during a lumbar spinal surgery while the patient is anesthetized and paralyzed.

Bipolar nerve stimulation/monitoring cuff

Disclosed is a probe,suitable for use in the non-invasive sensing of glucose concentrations in the body of a patient. The probe,includes at least three radiation receiving fibers,extending between a probe body,and a spectrograph,, and spaced apart from each other in a substantially uniform manner and aligned in a predetermined fixed pattern at the probe body,. A radiation transmitting means,conducts radiation from a radiation source,and extends from the radiation source,to the probe body,. The radiation transmitting means,is formed in the probe,into ring means for conducting radiation in a ring-shaped area immediately surrounding each of said receiving fibers,. The radiation transmitting means,and the receiving fibers,terminate at the probe body,in a unitary structure having an outer surface configured for contacting the skin of a patient. The ring means passes radiation from the radiation source,into the patient in the areas immediately surrounding each receiving fiber,. The receiving fibers,detect the radiation passing back out of the patient and pass this detected radiation to the spectrograph

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