“I hope that this will help you”

     We are talking pillows. Yes, perhaps a hospitalized patient’s head may not comfortably fit the pillows on the hospital bed. Perhaps the pillow is too soft, too hard, too small or too large for the patient to be comfortable.

     The top quarter of the hospital bed mattress is adapted so that computer controlled microsized foam rubber or air can be injected into (or out of) this enlargeable mattress. The patient or the patient’s family members can tell the attending nurse which type of pillow material should be tried- microsized foam rubber or air. The patient (or family members) will tell the nurse when the proper softness or hardness of the pillow is reached and when the proper size of the pillow is reached. Once again, this pillow is computer controlled so the air or foam rubber can be added or removed from the top quarter of this biomedically altered hospital mattress. There are no contamination issues to be addressed because of the non porous, able to be sanitized mattress barrier separating the inside of this pillow from the patient.

“One of my ministry dreams”

        As you may know, amateur radio was a lifeline for overseas missionaries for decades. Internet and cellular telephone use have replaced amateur radio as this lifeline. However, I feel that there is still a great need to supply amateur radios and develop a worldwide missionary amateur radio network. This ministry is not currently available. My dream is to work to develop the missionary network and work to donate amateur radios to missionaries, along with working to help these people obtain their overseas amateur radio licenses.
      I hope that you will consider these advantages to developing this unique, not currently available ministry:
     

      1. Amateur radios are still valuable for emergency communications everywhere. Even in the Americas, where the utility and cell telephone network is much better than anywhere overseas, in a disaster- public service agency staff still rely on amateur radio operators to help them coordinate disaster response. The amateur radio service utilizes numerous frequencies- immune to overload and quickly deployed using emergency battery power and portable antennas. In a disaster, cell telephone networks becomed overloaded and unusable soon after the emergency. Public service frequencies also may develop this overload problem.
Consider the increased useability with amateur radio use in overseas emergencies by missionaries who may be accustomed to the poor utility and cellular telephone service.
These missionaries should have amateur radios available for possible use in their local communities if the needs arise. Through the years, amateur radio has saved many lives.
    

       2. Missionaries have families who may be homesick for their american friends, american shopping availabilities and american society. These family members can use internet managed methods such as Skype and email messages and internet messenger to communicate with american friends or family members. However, again, these services may be unreliable overseas and they are one on one communications, where “roundtable” communications are not available. “Roundtable” communications with several participants is possible via amateur radio. Missionaries could meet on a designated shortwave frequency,on a scheduled basis, to discuss with other missionaries and their families items of common concern. Missionary family members could talk other family members over the amateur radio bands.

      3. Amateur radio is loads of fun, it is useful to relieve the stress common to missionaries, it is wholesome- with the dangers common to internet use not a concern. It is fun to use.

      4. Amateur radio is favored by God because of its’ wholesome nature- a non-violent alternative to video game and television use and its’ lack of sexual paradigms. Computer virus acquisition and anonymous internet users are not problems with amateur radio use.

      5. Amateur radio use is free after the radios are obtained. There are no monthly fees in amateur radio. This may be valuable for financially challenged  missionaries and their families.

     My dream is to develop a ministry in which I and other volunteers would solicit amateur radios ( used and new) from amateur radio manufacturers and licensees to give to missionaries worldwide at no cost to them. The ministry members would help interested missionaries obtain their amateur radio licenses and develop a regularly scheduled frequency for amateur radio missionaries and their families to check in and have “roundtable” discussions.

” God answers prayer, sometimes in amazing ways”

     As mentioned elsewhere in this blog- I was a thin, shy adolescent. I was not good at sports (but I sure wanted to be).  This patentable idea is sports related, yet it still fits into the overall theme of improving patient care. The idea simply lowers the learning curve required to become outstanding in certain sports. It combines modern technology, professional coaching techniques with practice. With this idea developed, it is possible for a small, thin person to be on the “first team” in basketball, for example.  A “coach” would be available for the youngster while practicing.   Once again, if corporate staff will be willing to appropriate a small percentage of the profits from this idea directly to my three children- this idea is theirs. However, I am hoping that God will bring christian church leadership my way, so that they can benefit from the desires I give you here. I want God to be pleased- after all, they all come from Him. I asked God to take charge of my project and become it’s Leader when the project started years ago.

“Yes, today’s “Society” must require this”

      I wanted the readers of this blog to know that if you see “advertising” on this site- I receive no compensation for them. The advertising is placed there by WordPress managers in order to keep this blog available to me at no cost to me. I really do not care if the advertising is there as long as the advertising on my blog is in good taste, ethical, moral and attractive. I know that WordPress managers have to support their families also.

” At last- humanistic, patient centered care has reached the goal! “

     This post’s title is accurate. The details and design are safely inside my cerebral cortex. I can truly say that this idea is the most valuable, clinically relevant, innovative and safety oriented of any of these patient care ideas.

     I am not giving you the details at this time as I am searching for a technical partner to help me patent this idea. I am not seeking personal financial relief; I am simply seeking lifetime financial relief for my three children. Contact information is given to you in the “Imagine!” posting.

” Don’t wake him, he needs the rest- your Olfan worked it’s magic.”

       This old man still remembers fondly the smells of his youth- freshly cut hay, equestrian sweat, cleaning out the horse and cattle barns  and the peculiar smell of freshly shorn wool.

       He is now old, with only the memories and in the hospital confinement. Luckily, he is fortunate enough to have the progressive, caring, ” thinking outside the box” hospital management prescribing the “Recovery Radio” distraction curtain  to surround this patient and the “olfan” olfactory management. He is also fortunate enough to have the caring family members familiar with the fond smells of his youth.

     The “Olfan” is simply a small fan with the custom prescribed activated olfactory cartridges inserted in the cavity in front of this fan. Tbe family members had the choice  of the smells of freshly oiled equestrian saddles,  the faint but peculiar odor from puppies and kittens, freshly cut alfalfa, the barnyard smells, the pine forest in the air, the smell after a soaking rain, the Oregon seacoast, the sweet smell from the bakery, etc. to choose from. 

    

“Thanks, Lord.” prays the nurse-phlebotomist

      This prayer will be commonly thought  after the newly developed intravenous catheter placement “smart-tool” is clinically marketed.

      Technology exists to combine nano-technology, Robotics, sonographic guidance technology, laser and infra-red positioning technology, biomedical and mechanical engineering technology with software engineering to ensure proper placement of intravenous catheters without mistakes.

      Perhaps this scenario is possible:   A microsized computer flat screen on top of the smart-tool gives the user a sonographic (or similar technology) image of the vein and it’s width. A cursor, corresponding to the position of the iv. catheter, is seen in this sonographic image. A steady LED light on top of this device and a steady tone tells the caregiver that the correct catheter insertion angle is reached. If the light starts to blink and the tone occurs intermittently, the caregiver knows  that the catheter angle is too shallow or too deep for proper placement. The robotic arms on this smart-tool will  push the catheter through the skin into the vein after the user pushes the button on the side of the device. This tool may save valuable time in emergency situations in which “collapsed veins” are seen.

      This innovative device would be capable of performing a “self check” of all electronic parameters to be certain that these parameters are within specifications prior to each use.

      The  nurse-phlebotomist would manage this  sterilizable hand held device to place the catheters in the veins first time-every time.

      This innovation is also useful in the veterinary paradigm. Perhaps this device would also be widely used in the paramedic arenas.

“Wyatt’s Theorem”

 

What is “Wyatt’s Theorem”?:
        1. CW (morse) communication is rare. It is so rare that many people live their lives without seeing morse operation. Many people who do view and listen to morse communication find it fascinating to watch. The majority of young adults who view morse communication are fascinated when they see it in operation.
     CW communication is historic. It has an exciting history. This quality makes cw communication appealing to young adults. It has the “secret language” aspect because it is so rarely used by the public.
      2. Young adults learn cw faster and easier than adults. The civil war leadership utilized this fact by using young adults as “telegraphers” in the civil war.
     3. CW communication is like any “foreign language”. It takes many hours of effort to learn it well. Many people attempt to learn cw, but fail because it is difficult to learn it well.
     4. CW communication, if learned well, is so much fun- it is “addicting”. I have often “talked” to other cw operators who are in the midst of their “cw fix” for the day. CW communication may not be as much fun until the CW is learned so well it can be “copied” at speeds in excess of thirty words per minute without taking written notes. The “work” aspect of cw communication then falls away and the pure enjoyment of it starts. Modern technology has removed the physical effort once required to send cw. Modern cw keys attached to “electronic keyers” have two vertical paddles. One paddle sends a string of “dots” as long as it is pressed. The other vertical paddle sends a string of “dashes” as long as it is pressed.
     5. CW communication is challenging. It is fun to send the right amount of dots and dashes and send cw with the goal of zero mistakes.
     6. CW communication solves the need for everyone to have social interaction. It is valuable for “introverts” who have difficulty finding the words to communicate “face-to-face” with other people. CW communication gives these people time to find the right words to say. It solves this social interaction need in a non-threatening, safe, self esteem building, fun, relaxing way. “Facebook” use by these at risk young adults could possibly lead to the new psychological syndrome called “Facebook depression”. The KID’S CLUB units can be used in some cases to treat this depression.
     I told a newspaper reporter that CW communication combines the fun, challenges and self esteem elevating properties of video game use with the utility of cell phone texting to communicate with other people.
     However, cell phone texting is not nearly as much fun as cw communication. Cell phone texting can also be done by nearly everyone.

     Video game use exposes young people to violence- killing imaginary people and monsters does not seem edifying. Responsible people can assume that this video game violence will continue to spiral downward. Once young adults become “addicted” to video games, their appetites will spiral into the “mature” themes and worse that are now available. It seems to me that video game addiction now teaches young people: 1. how to “kill” people in ever more creative ways and 2. How to have “sex” with women figures in revealing clothing.

     I read today (06/05/012) that the Norway killer who killed 77 people in Norway last summer played the video games “World of Warcraft” and “Modern Warfare” for several hours every day for several months prior to his killing spree.
      It seems to me that this is objective evidence that video game addiction can be very harmful to people and there is a need for wholesome, safe, non violent alternative sources of fun and stress diversion such as amateur radio,including morse communication.

      These qualities of cw communication make it ideal as a self esteem building, stress diverting, source of fun for young adults. I am especially thinking about its’ qualities as a motivating tool for stressed, at risk, “troubled” young adults who have few obvious redeeming qualities.
      Why couldn’t learning and using CW communication be used as an alternative to “punishment” for selected populations of juvenile offenders? This select group of troubled young adults would have the choice of learning and regularly using cw communication or being placed with their troubled peers in the self esteem destroying, isolated buildings- separate from the “normal” population of young adults. This CW communication ability would instead be the “carrot” that places young adult offenders above their peers. The judge or prosecutor in the case would then loan a KID’S CLUB unit to the young adult.

      These young novice CW operators would possibly feel compelled to study basic electronic theory, become proficient in reading and spelling and study FCC rules governing the amateur radio service. They could then pass the FCC supervised test required to obtain a federal amateur radio license. The amateur radio service contains the last remaining pool of accomplished cw operators worldwide. I do not believe that this theorem has been tested and would be an ideal topic for a research project by an advanced degree candidate. It is so frustrating to me that the people who can influence educational and public policy will not even let me demonstrate the qualities of cw communication. I have the equipment and ability to demonstrate this, but rarely receive any replies to my solicitations for help and chairpersonship of my project. My idea of nirvana is a job that allows me to demonstrate cw communication to other people.

     I read recently that the national student school drop-out rate is 25 percent. This seems high to me, but it must be accurate. Why is there a twenty five percent public school drop-out rate? It seems to me the answer is obvious- school is not fun. There are national academic standards that require students to attend and learn ever more rigorous knowledge. The school student may be a victim of the ever increasing peer bullying problem while at school. The slower learning, slightly less intelligent students may have problems learning the academic curriculum.

      Increasingly, single parent households do not have the energy, time or knowledge to help these students keep up with the increasingly mandated educational curriculum.

     I would consider dropping out of school myself if I were a high school student these days. I was thin, shy and had few friends in school. I would have been a top candidate for the social networking criticism and mean ” put downs” by my peers. The bullying situation is now worse, because disparaging comments can now be distributed through social media on the web to countless people.

     I believe that the daily pressure on individuals simply to make it to the end of the day, week or year has greatly increased. School administrators are pressured to teach students academic curriculum, but the social paradigm has now changed in modern times. School administrators now MUST also expose students to strategies that will help them simply SURVIVE adult LIFE. Hobby exposure is one way to do this. It is not now being done by school administrators.

     I am a veterinarian, not a PHD. academic. It seems to me that they cannot see the “forest through the trees”. What good are standardized academic daily rigors if the school student is not there to learn the information? Make school fun. Have an amateur radio station in each school, supervised by amateur radio operator professional teachers. Tell students that if they will attend school all day, at 2:30 pm, the amateur radio station operator-teacher will contact and you can ask questions of:

     1. Mondays: an astronaut on the US Space Station (also an amateur radio station enthusiast).

     2. Tuesdays : a “sea-faring” cruise ship captain in the Atlantic ocean ( also an amateur radio enthusiast ).

     3. Wednesdays: a veterinarian, MD, pacific oil rig supervisor, actor, etc. (also an amateur radio enthusiast).

     4. Thursdays: the pilot of a Boeing 747 airplane on a transatlantic flight ( also an amateur radio enthusiast).

     5. Fridays: a scientist at the McMurdo scientific station in the Antarctic ( also an amateur radio enthusiast).

     Once again, to participate in these exciting discussions at the end of the school day, the participants will have been in school all day.

      Of course, these exciting discussions can be accomplished by using “Skype” or other computer managed methods. However, these tasks are routine to students nowadays. Ham radio is a communication mode that is different and unseen to them- thus more exciting to them. Also, there is no nebulous, ephemeral “magic” involved with communicating via telephone, cell phone or other internet lines. Only by realizing that the voices are coming into the classroom via the “magic” of airwaves, is the “magic” maintained even after all these decades of use.

     Or- student excitement could be generated by the teacher-amateur radio operator promising to those students who attend school the whole day that the amateur radio operator-teachers would attempt contacts by using the school’s “moon bounce” amateur radio equipment. Signals are bounced off the moon to provide world wide radio contacts.

      The idea mentioned above does not appeal to academics? Well, perhaps one hour of each school day is spent in the “Hospital’s Hobby Haven” type school rooms, devoted to student perusing of all the fun, new, exciting, stress diverting and different hobbies that are available to help people cope in today’s increasingly “stressed-out”, performance measured lifestyle. Once again, entry to this school room with the hobby directory on CD or DVD would be restricted to students who have been in school all day or every day of that week. If a hobby is selected- the teacher would make every effort to solicit and provide all the materials and contacts needed for that student to work on his/her chosen hobby during the last hour of each school day. Once again, the student would not be able to work on this hobby in the “Hospital’s Hobby Haven” school room unless he/she attended school for the whole day or every day that week.

“Imagine!”

       Imagine hearing your individual amateur radio callsign coming back to you through the aether in morse code from a scientist working at the McMurdo station in the Antarctic.    

       Imagine your callsign in morse being sent by a Boeing 747 pilot on a transatlantic flight.      

      Imagine your callsign being returned from the Space Station by the United States Space Station astronaut who is conversant  in morse code.        

       Do you see and feel the thrill these moments would create in the minds of medically challenged young adults?   Do you understand the feelings of pride and accomplishment these moments would create in medically challenged young adults, who have formerly felt the pain of underachievment and low self esteem?  How wonderful the moments would be if recreated under the audience of the youngster’s important peers  (who cannot feel this pride because they have not worked to accomplish morse proficiency and worked to pass the exam needed to obtain an amateur radio license).  

      You will not know how much fun, stress diverting and self esteem elevating amateur radio, including morse communication, is unless you are exposed to this impressive mode of communication.  Morse communication combines the fun, challenges and self esteem elevating properties of video gaming with the utility of cell phone texting to communicate with other people. However, morse communication does not have the risk of addiction to video-gaming, including addiction  to the mature video game themes. Morse communication is so much more fun and faster than cell phone texting.  

      Thirteen years ago, KID’S CLUB was imprinted on the developer’s mind. This developer has been searching for help (chairpeople) to move KID’S CLUB into the nation’s medical institutions and Ronald McDonald Homes.  He is still searching for the influential people who can move this wonderful project into the medically challenged young population. In the hospital discharge process, the young patient’s parents would leave a refundable cash deposit with hospital personnel, take home the KID’S CLUB amateur radio and morse communication exposure unit, use this unit at home and then return the unit to the hospital personnel for a refund of this deposit.  The young patient could also purchase this unit by forfeiting this deposit. The chairpeople of KID’S CLUB will solicit unit funding for these hospital supplied KID’S CLUB units from local service club membership (Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Shriners Club, or Elks Club).

      The project cannot succeed unless you step forward and volunteer your time and influence to enable success.       E- communication is so boring and routine- again, mental ESCAPE from worry and depression is possible by using KID’S CLUB units. Thanks so much for being kind and caring enough to consider volunteering.      

      My motive is humanitarian, not financial. I am now a senior citizen and would like to be able to utilize my ideas when I have to enter the hospital or nursing home. Thus, I guess that I have a selfish motive. It would be so nice to have my choice of  “Recovery Radio” distraction curtains surrounding me while my choice of soothing music is played into my pillow and my choice of olfactory management is maintained. I would like to see intravenous catheters inserted into my veins first time, every time- even if a novice is giving me this care. I would like to be able to use my ComCage unit while I am in the nursing home and would love to be able to enter a hospital room devoted to the information management for all the wonderful, healthy hobbies that are now available. I would love to see the young patients exposed to the “Hospital’s Hobby Haven” room and also have a KID’S CLUB unit available for use by hospitalized young patients, their families  and the pediatric mentally ill.    I would love to see “Facebook Depression” as a now extinct diagnosis because of the availability of KID’S CLUB units and the “Hospital’s Hobby Haven” DVD’s. I would love to see the two to six year old patients in the hospital energized by the availability of “Holiday Hams”- an effort to tell these young patients that they are loved, important and will be thought of during their stay. The patients’ favorite storybook hero will “talk” directly to the youngster.  It would be so nice to be able to “talk my attending physician” into signing off on my request to utilize the “bathroom independence” facilities that I talk about here and are now routinely in use. I would like to see the allied health professionals using my “Crib Note” idea routinely.  I would love to see the patient concern about adverse drug events a “non-issue”. The safeguards I propose in this blog make such mistakes impossible.       

       I have a patentable idea that would be heavily used in the amateur radio and possibly also the military communities.  This idea is not seen at this time, in this project blog.  It would be reasonably priced, very unique, easily used and would have no similar product like it. I will give this idea to any corporate staff who will agree to earnestly work on and help develop the KID’S CLUB aspect of this project. I would hope also for a licensing agreement with this partner that will give partial revenues from this patentable idea directly to my three children and my personal friend, Pastor Wayde Kenneke- to lighten their economic load in life.      

       I hope that there are people perceptive enough to see the value of one or more of these ideas.   Please email me at: duanewyatt@hotmail.com if you are interested in helping me.   My cell phone telephone number is  916-677-9799.     My wife’s  (Sheryl)  cell phone number is: 916-677-6936.

“Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”

     Yes, this post can certainly be considered “certifiably Jules Verne”.  But, perhaps the technology exists to develop this idea.  Here goes:

     Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients are not able to move skeletal muscles in the later  stages of this disease. Thus, communication with the caregivers may be a problem.

     The Morse Code alphabet is a truly binary language. It consists of combinations of dots and dashes- short and long sounds, lights or, in this case- higher and lower  brain wave frequency  patterns. I know that there are differing brain wave patterns.  These brain wave patterns consist of differing frequencies. I know that it is possible to manipulate one’s own brain wave patterns.  Perhaps research can find out if one or more of these patterns can communicate in the binary morse code language.

     The ALS patient could learn the morse code language during the early months of the illness and would be conversant in the language when it is needed to communicate with the caregiver. I can talk to other morse users at speeds up to thirty words per minute. I copy the morse in my head, with minimal use of written notes. I find the morse code language fascinating and loads of fun.

     Would it be a possibility to forsee a communication method in which EEG sensors distinguish higher and lower frequency patterns of brain waves, consciously produced by an ALS patient conversant in morse code? The software of the computer attached to this EEG device would then translate the CW (morse code) that is sent by  the patient. Perhaps this EEG could be combined with computer software-developed only for this purpose and would be a new medical device, invented for this purpose.

     Perhaps this communication method would also be valuable as a communication tool for Muscular Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy and Cerebral Palsy patients?

    As an alternative or in cases where total muscle paralysis is not present, Toyota motor company’s “Touch Tracer” technology could possibly be applied here to provide an alphabetized and symbolized pressure touch flat screen. The caregiver would slowly move each letter on this tablet under the patient’s finger. The patient would slightly press each letter and/or symbol  he/she wants to use and this letter-symbol  would be displayed on the room’s television monitor for everyone to see.

      Once again, I do not know if this post is a possibility and it seems far fetched to me,  but it is worthy of thought and perhaps pursued further with research?   I have read about the research being done with “Brain-Computer Interfaces.”