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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and causes delays in patient care during and immediately after dialysis. It remains one of the most vexing problems associated with dialysis therapy, occurring in approximately 25% of all dialysis treatments, affecting 75,000 patients and twelve million hemodialysis sessions pe ...

The proposed research program aims to develop a physics-based identification, modeling and management infrastructure for aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations. This infrastructure will be built upon high fidelity state-of-the-art theoretical/computational methods as validated and verified by available experimental data bases, and will include (1) rapid flutter boundary determination for a wide ran ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competing continuation SBIR application proposes to complete a regulatory approvals program on a set of next-generation sleep disorder monitoring sensors. Advanced Medical Electronics (AME) completed in June of 2005 a phase II NIMH SBIR developing sleep sensors with embedded wireless links. AME completed on this phase II program the development of a set of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As the population ages, chronic care becomes increasingly important. The contrast to acute care is significant: a physician can often address acute problems with prescriptions and/or procedures, but this is often not the case for chronic problems that persist day after day, hour after hour. Since it is impractical for most people to hire a live-in nurse, those ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation (AME) proposes to develop a miniature portable electroencephalograph (EEG) recorder that can be easily used in the home to collect data for longitudinal surveys of the elderly. The device will be capable of using new dry electrode technology that promises to greatly simplify the attachment of EEG scalp electrodes. Dry el ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation (AME) proposes to develop a tool for pulmonologists and respiratory therapists specifically designed for the care of home ventilator-dependant pediatric patients. Following a critical illness, children require specialized care to facilitate recovery and rehabilitation that does not impede social and psychological develop ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This phase I SBIR seeks to establish the feasibility of using quantitative thermography to identify the clinical effects of spinal unloading in patients with radicular symptoms. Unloading therapy will be performed in patients with radicular symptoms and associated back pain while concurrently recording using infared (IR) images, surface temperatures and changes ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation proposes to develop a wireless wearable system to assess adherence to study protocols in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) mind-body interventions. The proposed system will utilize a suite of miniature wearable motion sensors to characterize limb and torso motion and compare it to stored reference profiles to ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation (AME) proposes to develop a 16 node wireless surface electro-myography (EMG) system, including a custom integrated circuit (IC), for research and clinical applications. The study of muscular activation patterns has been widely used for clinical purposes and has proven to be a useful tool for investigating neurological pa ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics (AME) proposes the development of an indoor way-finding device utilizing the unique magnetic anomaly patterns that exist in modern, man-made structures. The proposed system will record the magnitude of magnetic field strength from sensors in three orthogonal axes. The time history of these magnetic data points can be continuously co ...