Disposable cartridge for producing gas-enriched fluids
US6613280B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 20, 2001 |
| Grant date | Sep 2, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 20, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61M2202/0476
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A device generates a gas-enriched physiologic fluid and combines it with a bodily fluid to create a gas-enriched bodily fluid. The device may take the form of a disposable cartridge. The cartridge may include a fluid supply chamber for delivering physiologic fluid under pressure to an atomizer. The atomizer delivers fluid droplets into a gas-pressurized atomization chamber to enrich the physiologic fluid with the gas. The gas-enriched physiologic fluid is delivered to a mixing chamber in the cartridge where the gas-enriched physiologic fluid is mixed with a bodily fluid, such as blood, to create a gas-enriched bodily fluid.
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