The traditional medical instrumentation is now not suited for the transformation of the present healthcare model. It's an attempt to make a breakthrough on traditions to develop wearable sensors/systems. Five articles about wearable technology are selected by this special topic. And our aim is to inspire the designers of medical devices to grasp the chance and to take a vigorous action on innovatory developments, so as to satisfy the huge requirements of the healthcare market, and to open a new era of the medical device industry.
Clothing ; Equipment Design ; Equipment and Supplies

Digital potentiometers have been used in medical instruments. This paper describes the structure and principle of a digital potentiometer, especially its interfacing with a single chip processor and its programming.
Computers ; Equipment Design ; Equipment and Supplies

The flushing pump which is applied to clean operative wound has no temperature controlling function up to now, and doctors have to prepare the flushing fluid that has previously been warmed. The flushing pump system with medical constant temperature designed in our laboratory can absorb flushing fluid at the room temperature, and then eject flushing fluid with the temperature in accordance with the requirements of operations at a controlled constant flow rate. The system combines flow rate control with temperature control functions. The flushing pump system includes flushing part, temperature controlling part, key inputting part, liquid crystal displaying part and exceptional situation monitoring part. The present paper introduces the design method and principle of each part of the system at first, and then gives the debug method of all the system parameters. Finally the paper discusses the performance of the system according to the result of the experiment.
Equipment Design ; Equipment and Supplies ; Temperature

An auto-retractable self-disable safety syringe is introduced. The product mainly consists of barrel, plunger hander, needle holder, spring and needle cap. After injection, the clasp on top of plunger hander will be jammed with the outshoot of needle holder, meanwhile, the plunger hander tip expands the stop structure and consequently the compression spring pulls the needle and needle holder back into plunger hander. The technical parameters of present syringe such as break force, needle holder push out force and plunger hander lock force are very stable while working. With simple structure, reasonable design, easy manufacture and assemble, this product can been widely used in relevant area.
Disposable Equipment ; Equipment Design ; Equipment Safety ; Syringes

In this paper, one kind of suction apparatus is introduced, which could use manual, foot control and control combination. The design mentality, realization method, installation constitution and application method are also described. It is suitable to the nonmotile source condition and transportation situation, adapting easily to environment, and getting into favour with the medical staff and field first-aid personnel.
Equipment Design ; Suction ; instrumentation

The paper designed the portable free hemoglobin detector using spectrophotometry, which determines the concentration of free hemoglobin. The device has features of portability, compact and precise. It can evaluate the quality of blood products instantly and effectively.
Equipment Design ; Hemoglobinometry ; instrumentation

Accurate measurements of voltage and current from electrosurgery are the basis of development of electrosurgery with feedback function. We, therefore, developed a parameter measurement system based on PC, with high voltage and current from electrosurgery being sensed with transformers, amplified, filtered, transformed into single-ended signals, and then into RMS signals. The root mean square (RMS) signals were transformed into digital signals through DAQ card and the data was processed in PC with Labview. The process included sampling, displaying and storage. The experiment results indicated that the measurement system could measure the output parameters from electrosurgery steadily and correctly so that the development of the system has been successful. It can be the basis of development of embedded parameters measurement system and can provide accurate feedback information for intellectual electrosurgery.
Electrosurgery ; instrumentation ; Equipment Design

This article describes the design and development of an ultrasonic power meter which is consist of an electronic balance, a practice target, an acoustic enclosures and a blocking. The electronic balance mounted on the blocking is linked with the practice target by connecting rod. By adjusting the blocking makes the practice target suspended above ultrasound probe, and then the ultrasonic power can be measured. After initial tests, the ultrasonic power meter performanced with good stability and high precision.
Equipment Design ; Ultrasonics

Design otolaryngology chair's up-down assemble by applying link mechanism. And analysing the speed and accelerate of mechanism in CATIA's motion mechanism module to verify its actual running status. Draw the effective design, make the successful prototype.
Equipment Design ; Otolaryngology ; instrumentation

Based on the ECG-specific BMD 101 integrated circun chip, this study designed a digital ECG sensor. In practical application, users just need to connect the ECG sensor 'o upper computer (such as PC or mobile phone) through USB interface, to realize the functions including display, alarm, saving, transfer etc. After tests, They demonstrate that the sensor can be applied to the detection of arrhythmia, such as bigeminy coupled rhythm, proiosystole etc. Besides, the sensor has various advantages in monitoring an managing the heart health of people out of hospital, including low cost, small volume, usableness, simplicity of operation etc.
Electrocardiography ; instrumentation ; Equipment Design