Patent ID: 6729327
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A61M,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for monitoring and administering an atomized liquid medication from a portable, compressed gas cartridge, comprising the steps of:providing a cartridge administer adapted for receiving a portable cartridge of a high pressure gas; providing a first medicine chamber, which is adapted to receive at least a first medicine; providing a second medicine chamber, which is adapted to receive at least a second medicine; providing a medicine delivery system that is adapted to selectively disperse at least one of said first medicine, said second medicine, and a mixture of said first medicine and said second medicines, to create a predetermined dose of prescribed medicine; reducing the pressure of the high pressure gas to a reduced pressure gas having a pressure no greater than about 50 psig; generating a plurality of aerosol sized particles from said reduced pressure gas which have a diameter no greater than about 3 microns; introducing said predetermined dose of prescribed medicine from said medicine delivery system into a stream of said aerosol sized particles to create a prescribed medicinal gas; and dispensing said prescribed medicinal gas to a patient at a predetermined rate of flow, wherein said prescribed medicinal gas is adapted to treat a medical condition.