Johns Hopkins University

Vanessa C Pau

Soumyadipta Acharya

Myron L Weisfeldt

Girish Singhal

Hargun S Khanna

Yun Long

Nimra Taqi

Courtney C Haswell

Lu Zhao

Featured is an apparatus an apparatus including a monitoring and sensing means, an electrode patch and a control device operably coupled to each of the sensing means and the electrodes and outputs signals to the electrodes for purposes of stimulating the phrenic nerve to thereby cause breathing by natural contraction of the diaphragm. The control device is configured and arranged to initially localize the phrenic nerve with respect to a given set of electrodes that is effective, when appropriately energized, for stimulating the phrenic nerve to establish negative pressure induced respiration in the body, based on the output signal(s) from the monitoring and sensing means. After such initially localizing; the control device thereafter repetitively outputs stimulation signals via the given set of electrodes so as to thereby continuously stimulate negative pressure induced respiration. Also featured are methods related thereto.

Portable negative pressure ventilation device and methods and software related thereto

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Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Vanessa C Pau