Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Think of the many possibilities

Home transcranial stimulation
http://www.tdcs-kit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tDCS_guide-0914.pdf
 
The Smart Pill
Easy to Swallow: The Smart Pill
A tiny ingestible sensor by Proteus Digital Health "is a game changer for medication compliance," David Lee Scher, MD, told Medscape. "The sensor, which costs less than a penny, is placed on a pill. It gets activated by stomach juices when it's ingested. A digital signal is then sent to a Band-Aid®–like monitor worn on the patient's arm." The sensor records when the medication is ingested, as well as the patient's heart rate, body temperature and position, and rest and activity patterns. "You view these data in the context of how effective a given pill is," Dr Scher says. "For example, if someone is taking a heart medicine that you want to decrease their heart rate, you can tell whether the rate is slow with activity because the medication is working or because the patient is inactive." The data are wirelessly transmitted to a smartphone app, which then sends it to a provider, caregiver, or family member. "Patients receive text message reminders if they don't take their pills," Dr Scher adds.
 
BraiNet

A BraiNet® for every patient.
Anytime. Anywhere.

EEG needs to be available to patients 24 hours per day 7 days per week. Waiting until the next "work day" to do the EEG is not fast enough for good patient management. Often, EEG is not available around the clock, 7 days/week and even when there is an "on call tech" the time it takes to get to the hospital and perform the procedure can take several hours. The BraiNet® makes EEG set up possible for a healthcare professional "on site" to apply the electrodes.

The BraiNet® is designed to be used for any EEG – the "stat" EEG in the ICU or ER or other area of the hospital as well as for the routine EEG in the Neurodiagnostic Lab or Neurofeedback office. It is ideal for long-term monitoring and can stay on the patients head for several days – in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) – in any intensive care unit (ICU/NICU/PICU/NNCU) or for ambulatory EEG (AEEG). Our NEW Sleep BraiNet® is perfect for overnight polysomnography in the sleep lab or in the patient's home.

Fast.
All BraiNet® Templates slip on the head in seconds.

Imagine your patients having access to BraiNet for home use! Lots of viewable EEG for all those ambiguous episodes that never seem to happen in the monitoring unit.

A colleague wrote in response to the above: 
Hello Galen! Possibilities, indeed. Some of them perhaps even good or neutral.

I remember once a mentor paying rapt (but supposedly platonic) attention to an ambulatory EEG that happened to overlap a couple's intercourse. As I recall, that segment exhibited lots of muscle and movement artifact but no obvious alteration in the background rhythm, providing anecdotal support to our concept that sex may be largely a subcortical activity. Duh.



1 comment:

  1. Re home transcranial stimulation, see, courtesy of a colleague: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/gentle-electrical-jolt-can-focus-sluggish-mind/

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