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Respiratory ventilation apparatus

  • US 5,150,291 A
  • Filed: 10/01/1990
  • Issued: 09/22/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a respiratory ventilation apparatus having a ventilator and a primary means for producing a pressure or volume supported breath cycle alternatingly providing a patient breathing pathway with a relatively high positive ventilation pressure and a relatively low positive ventilation pressure, the improvement comprising:

  • means for detecting heart beats in a plurality of cardiac cycles of said patient;

    secondary means for producing said relatively low positive ventilation pressure in said patient breathing pathway commencing at a variable moment following a detected heart beat for a variable time interval during selected cardiac cycles; and

    means for determining said variable moment including means for determining a period of time between selected sequential heart beats of said patient, and means for multiplying a preselected multiplier value by said period of time between said selected sequential heart beats, said preselected multiplier value approximately corresponding to a computed fraction of said period of time between heart beats.

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