Patent ID: 8535691
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: A61G

Abstract:
1. A process for treating a subject living organism, the process comprising: (a) confining at least a portion of the organism in a closed environment; (b) providing a circulating perfluorochemical fluid in the closed environment; (c) dissolving a selected gaseous material in the perfluorochemical fluid to provide perfluorochemical fluid containing the dissolved selected material; (d) providing a pressure differing from atmospheric pressure in the closed environment; (e) immersing the at least a portion of the organism in the perfluorochemical fluid containing the selected gaseous material; and (f) alternately pressurizing the closed environment to a first pressure and a second pressure, in a cycled manner, the pressure cycling employing cardiac gating, such that the variation of pressure is synchronized with cardiac rhythms.