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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Warren M. Zapol, Cambridge, MA (US);
Binglan Yu, Lexington, MA (US);
Paul Hardin, Lowell, MA (US);
Matthew Hickcox, Groton, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for generating nitric oxide can include an apparatus positioned in a trachea of a mammal, the apparatus including a respiration sensor for collecting information related to one or more triggering events associated with the trachea, an oxygen sensor for collecting information related to a concentration of oxygen in a gas, and one or more pairs of electrodes for initiating a series of electric arcs to generate nitric oxide, and the system for generating nitric oxide can also include a controller for determining one or more control parameters based on the information collected by the respiration sensor and the oxygen sensor, wherein the series of electric arcs is initiated based on the control parameters determined by the controller.