Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Kiran Hamilton J Dellimore

Susanne Maaike Valster

Ronaldus Maria Aarts

Jens Muehlsteff

Koray Karakaya

Eduard Gerard Marie Pelssers

Mark Thomas Johnson

Thomas Koehler

Rafael Wiemker

Cornelis Petrus Hendriks

Marc Andre De Samber

Albertus Cornelis Den Brinker

Ron Martinus Laurentius Van Lieshout

Lutz Christian Gerhardt

Joerg Sabczynski

Maarten Petrus Joseph Kuenen

Rick Bezemer

Murtaza Bulut

Okke Ouweltjes

Marco Baragona

Ralph Wilhelm Christianus Gemma Rosa Wijshoff

Louis Nicolas Atallah

Denny Mathew

Laurentia Johanna Huijbregts

Lars Schmitt

Mukul Julius Rocque

Jaap Roger Haartsen

Doortje Van De Wouw

Privender Kaur Saini

Raymond Van Ee

Charles Frederik Sio

Pascal De Graaf

Arthur Bouwman

Michael Polkey

Marcel Cornelis Dirkes

Frank Mueller

Thomas Johannes Van Gijsel

Rohan Joshi

Peter Hermanus Bouma

Jens Mühlsteff

Angela Grassi

Martin Grüterich

Anna Santagostino Barbone

Russell Grim

Maarten Kuenen

Adam Jones

Harold Johannes Antonius Brans

Martin GRÜTERICH

Achim Rudolf Hilgers

Jens MÜHLSTEFF

Samer Bou Jawde

Rita Priori

Pedro Miguel Ferreira Dos Santos Da Fonseca

David Aaron Troxell

Jörg Sabczynski

An intubation assistance device includes an electronic controller configured to: identify, from one or more images of a patient, information about the patient including at least a diameter of a trachea and a length of an intubation pathway; determine a recommended ETT size including an ETT diameter and an ETT depth of insertion from the determined diameter of the trachea and the determined length of the intubation pathway; and display the recommended ETT size on a display device.

Imaging-based sizing optimization of endotracheal tube for mechanical ventilation

Provided is a system for correcting a sweat analyte measurement for temperature. The system comprises a sweat collector () for collecting sweat from skin (). The collected sweat is drawn from the sweat collector to an outlet () via a capillary (). The sweat is drawn through the capillary by capillary action and evaporation of the sweat from the outlet. The evaporation of the sweat from the outlet depends on the temperature. A flow sensor () measures a flow rate of the sweat being drawn through the capillary. An analyte sensor () obtains the sweat analyte measurement. The system further comprises a controller which is configured to determine a temperature from the measured flow rate. The sweat analyte measurement is then corrected using the determined temperature. Further provided is a method for correcting a temperature-dependent sweat analyte measurement.

System and method for correcting a sweat analyte measurement

The invention relates to a system and a method for determining a severity of a respiratory disease of a patient. The patient is instructed by a system to recite a phrase. The system receives the phrase recited by the patient as acoustic signal and analyzes the acoustic signal with respect to a severity of a respiratory disease. The result of the analysis is provided, which is indicative for the severity of the respiratory disease of the patient.

Automated and objective symptom severity score

The present invention relates to devices and methods for uptaking and analyzing sweat from a skin of a user. In particular, it is proposed to provide a variability in the size of the sweat sensor inlets (), which can be used for improving the determination of sweat parameters like for example determining the number of active sweat glands The variability in the size of the inlets () with which the sweat sensor () uptakes the sweat from the user's skin () can be achieved by having either plurality of inlets wherein at least some of them have different opening sizes and to use the differently sized inlets based in different situations. Alternatively, one or more inlets may have openings with variable cross-sectional area, like e.g. an adjustable diameter of their opening, and also a combination of these two alternatives is of course possible. A processor of the sweat sensor may use the information from either all or only the most appropriate sized inlets to determine a sweat parameter. In another alternative, the processor may adapt the inlet to the adjustable inlet opening to the most appropriate size to then determine a sweat parameter of interest.

Sweat sensor

A sweat sensing system comprises a mesh for location over a sweat surface on which sweat is formed or collected, and a vibration system for vibrating the mesh to nebulize sweat droplets. The nebulized sweat droplets are condensed on a sensing surface, and a sweat sensor performs biomarker sensing of the sweat at the sensing surface.

Sweat sensing system

An intubation assistance device includes an electronic controller configured to: generate a patient respiratory tract geometry model of at least a portion of a human respiratory tract by inputting one or more patient variables into a statistical shape model (SSM) of at least a portion of the human respiratory tract; select a recommended endotracheal tube (ETT) size by modeling at least one ETT model inserted into the patient respiratory tract geometry model to form a virtual fit model and estimating at least one fit parameter based on the virtual fit model; and display the recommended ETT size on a display device.

Endotracheal tube size selection and insertion depth estimation using statistical shape modelling and virtual fitting

A breast pump device () comprises an expression kit () and a vacuum unit () configured to realize a pressure cycle in the expression kit (). For a purpose of determining one or more milk expression characteristics such as total volume of expressed milk, the device () is equipped with an acoustic milk expression assessment system () including an acoustic sensor () and a processor () configured to process an acoustic signal received from the sensor () during operation of the device () when a receptacle () is used with the device () for receiving expressed the milk. By recording sound during a pumping session, it is possible to determine a value of a time duration of a free fall of droplets of expressed the milk from the expression kit () to the receptacle (), which can be taken as a measure of a number of interesting milk expression characteristics.

Breast pump device comprising an expression kit, a vacuum unit and a milk expression assessment system

Provided is a method of determining a concentration (C) of a first analyte (a) in sweat excreted by a first sweat gland type at a first skin location (i) having the first sweat gland type and a second sweat gland type. The method comprises measuring a first concentration (I) of the first analyte in sweat excreted at the first skin location and measuring at least one parameter of sweat excreted by the second sweat gland type at a second skin location (ii) having the second sweat gland type but not the first sweat gland type. The at least one parameter is used to determine a dilution factor (II) which quantifies dilution of the first analyte by sweat excreted by the second sweat gland type at the first skin location. This dilution factor (II) is then used to correct the first concentration (I) so as to determine the concentration (C). Further provided is an apparatus () for determining the concentration (C).

Method and apparatus for differential sweat measurement

The present invention relates to a device, system and method for detection of pulse and/or pulse-related information of a patient. To allow a single site solution, which is more robust to motion artefacts and arrhythmias, the device comprises an accelerometer signal input () configured to obtain an accelerometer signal acquired by an accelerometer sensor arranged at the patient's skin, a pulse signal input () configured to obtain a pulse-related signal of the patient, a patient information input () configured to obtain patient information, a model unit () configured to generate a model of accelerometer-based pulse palpation from the pulse-related signal using said patient information and context information indicating the context of the acquisition of the accelerometer signal, a feature extraction unit () configured to extract one or more features from the accelerometer signal using the generated model and/or from the pulse-related signal, and a detection unit () configured to detect the pulse and/or pulse-related information of the patient from the one or more extracted features.

Device, system and method for detection of pulse and/or pulse-related information of a patient

The present invention relates to a device, system and method for improved non-invasive and objective detection of pulse of a subject. The device comprises an input unit () configured to obtain a series of images of a skin region of the subject and a processing unit () for processing said series of images by detecting pulse-related motion of the skin within the skin region from the series of images, generating a motion map of the skin region from the detected pulse-related motion, comparing the generated motion map with an expected motion map of the skin region, and determining the presence of pulse within the skin region based on the comparison.

Device, system and method for detection of pulse of a subject

A breast pump device () is equipped with or used in conjunction with an acoustic milk expression assessment system () for the purpose of obtaining an indication about a fat content of expressed milk. The acoustic milk expression assessment system () includes an acoustic sensor () and a processor () configured to process an acoustic signal received from the acoustic sensor () during operation of the breast pump device () when a milk receptacle () is used with the device (). By recording sound during a pumping session, it is possible to determine a frequency shift in the sound of droplets falling down in the receptacle () and hitting a surface of the milk contained by the receptacle () with respect to a reference situation of a liquid having 0% fat content, which can be taken as a factor in estimating a value related to the fat content of the milk.

Obtaining an indication about a fat content of milk

A computer-implemented method and corresponding output generator for handling alarm events, generated by a subject/patient monitoring device, and generating clinician-perceptible outputs indicative of the alarm events. Alarm events are divided into non-actionable and actionable alarm events. Information on non-actionable alarm events is stored. Stored information on non-actionable alarm events is contained in a clinician-perceptible output generated in response to detecting an actionable alarm event.

Generating a clinician-perceptible output responsive to a subject-monitoring device

A system determines a risk level of a respiratory attack of a user of the system. The system comprises part of a network of systems, and it reports information to, and receives information from, the network. The system comprises a local activity monitoring device for tracking the physical activity level of the user. Location information and activity levels in respect of other users of the network of systems are received, relating to when they have suffered a respiratory attack. A warning can then be given to the user which takes account of the location of the user and the activity level or planned activity level of the user, and the received location information and activity levels in respect of other users.

System and method for determining a risk level of a respiratory attack

Various methods and apparatus disclosed herein relate to apparatus and techniques for harvesting energy from operation of a syringe, and utilizing that energy for various purposes. In various embodiments, a method () for harvesting and using electrical energy during operation of a syringe () may include: operating () the syringe, wherein operating includes displacing a plunger () of the syringe to draw fluid into a reservoir () of the syringe or expel fluid from the reservoir of the syringe; converting (), by an electrical generator () that is integral with the syringe, motion associated with displacing the plunger into electrical energy; and using () at least some of the electrical energy to at least temporarily store, in a memory component () integral with the syringe, one or more data points associated with operation of the syringe.

Harvesting energy from operation of a syringe

Various methods and apparatus disclosed herein relate to apparatus and techniques for harvesting energy from operation of a pill pack, and utilizing that energy for various purposes. In various embodiments, an energy harvesting apparatus configured to receive a pill pack () is disclosed. An energy harvesting apparatus in accordance with various embodiment may include a housing (), where the housing is configured to receive a pill pack (), and an electrical generator incorporated into the housing (), where the electrical generator converts motion associated with compression of at least one blister () of the pill pack () expelling one or more pills () from the pill pack into electrical energy, where the electrical energy is used to collect one or more data points associated with operation of the pill pack during the expelling of the one or more pills.

Harvesting energy during compression of a pill pack

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Kiran Hamilton J Dellimore