Patent ID: 7824366

Claim:
A ventilation bypass system to assist exit of air from a lung of a subject through a wall of a chest of the subject wherein the ventilation bypass system comprises: a ventilation control device adapted to be located on the chest of the subject; the ventilation control device having a generally-planar surface adapted to contact skin of a chest of a patient; a conduit which protrudes from the generally-planar surface of the ventilation control device said conduit having a distal end adapted to be passed through the wall of the chest of the subject wherein the length of the conduit is such that when the generally-planar surface of the ventilation control device is in contact with the skin of the chest of the patient, the distal end of the conduit is positioned within the parenchymal tissue of the lung; and a chest tube adapted to evacuate air from a pleural space around the lung wherein the chest tube is associated with the conduit and oriented so that when the distal end of the conduit is positioned within the parenchymal tissue of the lung an open end of the chest tube is positioned in the pleural space of the subject.