7/5/2023 0 Comments Epilepsy sleep monitor![]() ![]() The MP5V2 uses new sensor technology combined with computer analytical software to determine if a person is having a seizure on their bed. Medpage has recently (April 2013) introduced two new members to the Medpage seizure alarm family. We continually research new technologies and developments in research into epilepsy and work closely with a large number of epilepsy specialists. The Medpage (MP5) Epilepsy alarm for more than 20 years has provided a reliable method of detecting Tonic/Clonic (Grand Mal) epileptic seizures and has helped thousands of families manage epilepsy. ![]() I have also heard stories of a length of string attached to someone’s toe linked to another person. When the person experienced a seizure, the swinging action of the pendulum made contact with a switch making the buzzer sound. Another one, a little more advanced (slightly) used a swinging pendulum suspended from the bed connected to a mechanical buzzer. When the person had a seizure the rocking motion of the bed swung the bell making it ring. With the old type sprung bed base, a hand bell was suspended from the bed springs by a length of cord. Some of them are quite comical, depending on your sense of humour. There had been some crude methods of detecting epileptic seizures, or epileptic fits as many referred to. The Medpage was certainly a revelation back in 1995. The epilepsy nurse informed us that this new technology could help thousands of families and that she had told the Epilepsy organisations about our new invention. Sure enough the monitor detected her seizures and alerted the parents. They had then trusted the monitor enough, as it did detect her seizures, to try it out for real with our monitor, their daughter, in her own bed, without supervision. Out of the blue the nurse telephoned us to say the family had tested the alarm for a week, with mum and dad taking turns watching their daughter in her own bed, in her own room, throughout the night. We had begun to think our box of tricks had ended up in a box never to be mentioned again. Several weeks went by without hearing anything from the nurse. The prototype was duly packed up and sent to the specialist nurse with a note saying, we do not expect this will be perfect first time so we expect there may be some to-ing and fro-ing until we get it right. After some serious tweaking and tests, a prototype emerged. The baby alarm detected sound only then transmitted an alarm signal to a vibrating pager. ![]() After some major head scratching and team brainstorming, an idea came forth using our baby alarm for deaf people as the basis for design. With the internet in its infancy and limited options where to obtain information from, the epilepsy nurse provided a detailed description of how seizures happen, what happens, and what would be required to detect them. Not having much knowledge or experience of people having epilepsy, some major research was required. The Shake Awake helped millions of deaf people live a more independent life as they had a means of reliably waking up in the morning for work. The product, first called Travel Mate was later branded as Shake Awake and was sold worldwide, at a price people could afford. With RS components only down the road, it did not take long to design and make a prototype that actually worked. With all the wires, connectors and obvious discomfort of having this huge disk under her a pillow, I realised that a modern LCD clock could be constructed that contained everything needed to replicate her antiquated alarm. The product consisted of a mains powered alarm clock, modified to produce an output at alarm time to switch power to a huge vibrating disk, positioned under her pillow. After an introduction to a deaf lady in a residential home who proudly demonstrated her alarm clock, I realised that not only was it cumbersome and potentially dangerous, it was also potentially unreliable. Medpage Limited T/A Easylink UK began trading in 1984 after the invention of an alarm clock to wake deaf people. ![]() Ketogenic Diet/ BBC Good Food Show NEC 2021.AMIGO Public & Patient Involvement & Engagement Day. ![]()
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