Patent ID: 7235264

Claim:
In a method of treating a patient by administering a medicament to the patient wherein the medicament is inhaled by the patient during the treatment, the improvement being in that the medicament is a xenon preparation which is provided in a form of a combination medicament comprising a pharmacologically effective concentration of xenon selected from the group consisting of gaseous xenon and a xenon containing gas mixture, and a medicament that comprises a pharmacologically effective concentration of NO gas, NO-containing gas or gas mixture, administering the xenon to a patient in a subanesthetic amount wherein the gaseous xenon or the xenon containing gas mixture administered to the patient contains no more than 70% by volume of xenon and when the gaseous xenon or xenon containing gas mixture is metered into the patient's respiratory gas so that the combined gas supplied to the patient contains from 5 to 70% by volume xenon, administering the medicament that comprises an NO gas by inhalation and the combination medicament is administered to a patient for a treatment selected from the group consisting of (a) treatment of impairments of blood flow in the brain, (b) treatment of impairment of cerebral perfusion, (c) cerebral protection, (d) treatment of stroke, (e) improving the oxygen supply in the brain, (f) treatment of post-ischemia syndrome, (g) promoting blood flow in the brain, and (h) cerebral vasodilation, and selecting a patient in need of one of said treatment (a) to (h).