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Title:
【発明の名称】ガスの分配を改良するための装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2002506684
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
When treating patients with severely injured or sick lungs, there is often the problem of providing a life sustaining treatment without risking further damage to the lungs as a result of the treatment itself. An apparatus for improving the distribution of gas in the lungs of a patient to alleviate this problem directs a controllable pressure to one or several selected positions on the patient's thorax. In one embodiment of the apparatus, the apparatus includes a vest which includes compartments which can be filled with a fluid under pressure from a pressure source via tubes.

Inventors:
Luciano Gattinoni
Application Number:
JP2000536338A
Publication Date:
March 05, 2002
Filing Date:
March 11, 1999
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Siemens-Elema Activola Get
International Classes:
A61H31/02; A61H23/04; A61H31/00; (IPC1-7): A61H31/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Toshio Yano (3 outside)