Patent ID: 7820102
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: A61M,B01F

Abstract:
1. A method of enriching a bodily fluid with a gas, the method comprising the acts of: (a) delivering a physiologic fluid under pressure from a fluid supply chamber of a housing to an atomizer disposed in an atomizing chamber of the housing; (b) atomizing the physiologic fluid using the atomizer and delivering droplets of the atomized physiologic fluid into a pressurized gas within the atomizing chamber to form a gas-enriched physiologic fluid; (c) delivering the gas-enriched physiologic fluid from the atomizing chamber into a pressurized mixing chamber of the housing by using the pressurized gas within the atomizing chamber; and (d) delivering a bodily fluid to the pressurized mixing chamber to mix with the gas-enriched physiologic fluid to form a gas-enriched bodily fluid, wherein said fluid supply chamber, atomizing chamber, and mixing chamber are housed within the same housing.