Patent ID: 9393025
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: A61B,A61H

Claim Text:
1. A method for treating a subject experiencing, or likely to experience, hypovolemia caused by a traumatic injury to protect an organ of the subject from effects associated with hypovolemia, comprising: performing non-invasive, individual or repeated remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) regimens on a subject experiencing or likely to experience hypovolemia caused by a traumatic injury, before performance of resuscitation therapy, wherein the RIC regimens are performed on a limb of the subject remote from the organ, wherein each RIC regimen comprises two or more cycles of blood flow occlusion followed by reperfusion, wherein each cycle of blood flow occlusion has duration of one minute or more and wherein each subsequent cycle begins upon conclusion of reperfusion of a previous cycle.