ADVANCING NONINVASIVE PATIENT MONITORING

Medical devices for the determination of oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, the concentration of hydrogen ions, the rate of metabolites and partial pressures of gaseous substances present in blood and exhalation air; medical measuring apparatus, instruments and sensors, namely, medical sensors and instruments and their component parts for measuring and determining the properties of a patient's blood and exhalation air; medical diagnosis and therapy apparatus for monitoring the breathing condition of a patient; sensors for medical use; non-invasive and transdermal and transcutaneous measuring apparatus for determining the pressure and chemical properties of a patient's blood and exhalation air; medical sensors and probes for measuring oxygen partial pressure, carbon dioxide partial pressure, frequency of pulsations and other parameters of blood as well as the hematocrit; electrodes and sensors for medical use, namely, electrochemical electrodes, microelectrodes, optical sensors, electronic micro-optical and micro-electrochemical sensors for evaluation, and reference electrodes; medical monitoring apparatus, namely, digital monitoring systems (SDMS), digital monitors (SDM), and sensors for the monitoring of patient's ventilation, oxygenation, and adverse breathing events; medical apparatus for monitoring patients' sleep and artificial sleep