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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2018
Thornhill Scientific Inc., Toronto, CA;
Michael Klein, Toronto, CA;
Joseph Fisher, Thornhill, CA;
James Duffin, Toronto, CA;
Marat Slessarev, Toronto, CA;
Cathie Kessler, Toronto, CA;
Shoji Ito, Toronto, CA;
Olivia Sobczyk, Etobicoke, CA;
Anne Battisti-Charbonney, Trois-Rivieres, CA;
Daniel Michael Mandell, Toronto, CA;
THORNHILL SCIENTIFIC INC., Toronto, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for controlling the end tidal partial pressure of a gas X in a subject's lung, and to the use of such an apparatus and method for research, diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, wherein the method consists of: —obtaining input of a series of logistically attainable PetX values for a series of respective breaths: —determining an amount of gas X required to be inspired by the subject in an inspired gas to target the PetX for each of said respective breaths: and—controlling a gas delivery device to deliver the amount of gas in a volume of gas delivered to the subject in each of said respective breaths to target the respective PetX for that breath.