Patent · US Expired

Apparatus and method for preventing hypoxic damage

US4813427A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Hellige GmbH · DE

Inventors

Marianne E. Schlaefke · Bochum, DE
Joachim Hopmeier · Freiburg im Breisgau, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 17, 1987
Grant date	Mar 21, 1989
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 17, 2007

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2503/06
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed are apparatus and method for preventing hypoxic damage, relieving respiratory difficulties and conditioning breathing reflexes in a living human body. More particularly, at least one sensory stimulus is imparted to the body in response to a deviation from at least one adjustable physiological variable followed sequentially by delivery of a respiration restoring gas to the vicinity of the nose and mouth of the body.

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