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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
May. 06, 2005
Joseph A. Orr, Park City, UT (US);
Joseph A. Orr, Park City, UT (US);
Anecare Laboratories, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for reversing inhaled anesthesia includes a filter for removing one or more anesthetic agents from gases passing therethrough, as well as a component for elevating COlevels in gases that are to be inhaled by a subject. The COlevel-elevating component facilitates an increase in the ventilation of the subject without resulting in a significant decrease in the subject's PCOlevel and, thus, a decrease in the rate at which blood flows through the subject's brain. A method of reversing the effects of inhaled anesthesia includes increasing the rate of ventilation of an anesthetized subject while causing the subject to inhale gases with elevated amounts of COand while filtering anesthetic agents from such gases.