Patent Application: US-55353500-A

Abstract:
a hyperbaric resuscitation system includes a hyperbaric chamber having a volume sufficient to enclose a human patient and at least two operating personnel . the system also includes a device for pressurizing the hyperbaric chamber to at least 1 . 5 atmospheres with air . the concentration of oxygen in high pressure , oxygen - rich gas to be breathed by the patient provided by an independent system at chamber pressure is automatically regulated by a regulating system which receives information about the amount of oxygen in cerebral tissue of the patient from a spectrophotometer . although devices for measuring the exact amount of oxygen in cerebral tissue do not yet exist , the presently available devices can show trends in the amount of oxygen in the tissue . since the physician working on a patient in a hyperbaric resuscitation system is more concerned about trending than exact values , the present system can still be of great benefit in resuscitating patients .

Description:
in fig9 and 10 , the preferred embodiment of the hyperbaric resuscitation system of the present invention is designated by the numeral 10 . the system is preferably composed of a hyperbaric chamber 20 with minimum dimensions of 96 ″ ( 2 . 44 m ) in diameter with a 14 ′( 4 . 27 m ) usable length , capable of being pressurized to four atm abs , and built to pressure vessel human occupancy ( pvho ) standards . access to the chamber 20 can be through doors 81 and 82 large enough to roll equipment and patient 1 in and out ( e . g ., 34 ″× 54 ″— 86 cm × 137 cm ). access is preferably also provided by a quick - opening closure 22 with an opening diameter equal to the diameter of the chamber 20 . the entire resuscitation cart 21 will roll in and out of the chamber . the resuscitation cart comprises the patient gurney 27 , floor space around the gurney 27 for two to five emergency personnel 60 , a capnometer ( monitor of co2 in exhaled gas — not shown ), a defibrillator / cardiac monitor 31 with intravascular pressure monitoring capability , suction equipment 32 , volume cycled patient regulator / ventilator 33 , american heart association approved code cart 34 , a blood gas monitor 35 , an arterial line blood pressure manometer 36 , continuous ekg cardiac monitor with recorder 37 , rectal core thermistor 38 , x - ray equipment ( not shown ) for anterior / posterior neck , chest , and abdomen conventional views by portable x - ray equipment , a pulse oximeter ( not shown ) and a niroscope 51 capable of rapidly and continuously measuring cytochrome oxidase redox ratio in the cerebral cortex of the patient 1 . if one is willing to forego the quick - opening closure 22 , one could use a standard hospital hyperbaric chamber commercially available from perry oceonographics company . all niroscope - related equipment on the resuscitation cart 21 must be checked for suitability for operation in an hyperbaric atmosphere and , if necessary , the requisite modifications must be made . all above equipment is installed on a cart capable of being moved in and out of the entrance doors 81 / 82 of hyperbaric chamber 20 . the method of the present invention comprises placing a patient 1 with endotracheal tube 42 in place into hyperbaric chamber 20 having a volume sufficient to enclose a human patient 1 and at least two operating personnel 60 , pressurizing the hyperbaric chamber 20 to greater than existing barometric pressure ( preferably to at least 1 . 5 atmospheres ), providing oxygen - rich gas to be breathed by the patient 1 through endotracheal tube 42 , pressurizing the oxygen - rich gas to a pressure similar to that of the hyperbaric chamber 20 , and monitoring oxygen in cerebral tissue of the patient 1 with a non - invasive monitoring means ( such as niroscope 51 , 52 ). the method preferably also includes the step of automatically regulating the concentration of oxygen in the oxygen - rich gas in response to readings of the non - invasive monitoring means . at the option of the emergency center / attending emergency physician , a monoplace chamber 520 can house the patient 1 and all acls procedures conducted from the outside of the chamber 520 by robotic design ( see fig1 ). chamber 520 is provided with a connecting tunnel 43 to chamber 620 in case patient access is needed by medical personnel 560 . in such a case , medical personnel 560 would enter chamber 620 , chamber 620 would be pressurized to the same pressure as chamber 520 , then the personnel 560 would enter chamber 520 to work with patient 1 . description of present niroscope algorithm technology — multi - component analysis ( mca ) niroscopy is the application of absorption spectroscopy in the near infrared range for measuring the change in concentration of specific chromophores . the primary chromophores that are designated for measurement are oxidized and reduced cytochrome oxidase and oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin . currently , measuring the change of the concentration of these chromophores by niroscopy is based on the following considerations and procedures . given an absorption curve over a range of wave lengths in the near infrared region ( 700 - 950 nm ) and assuming beer &# 39 ; s law is applicable , a set of simultaneous equations can be generated which , when solved , will result in concrete values for the relative concentrations of each of the chromophores . the number of equations is equal to the number of chromophores whose concentrations are to be determined . for example , in the brain , for the near infrared spectral region , there are the four aforementioned chromophores . if any four different near infrared wave lengths are selected for making total absorption measurements , four total absorption values will be obtained . using beer &# 39 ; s law , it is possible to solve for the concentration of each of the chromophores . the equations that are generated will contain the following variables : total absorption , chromophore extinction coefficients , concentration of each chromophore , and path length . total absorption is obtained by direct measurement . chromophore extinction coefficients are determined experimentally . total path length involves a complex series of events which may be considered constant for the system and therefore can be assumed to be unity . by solving these simultaneous equations by matrix operations it is possible to calculate the relative concentrations of each of the chromophores . the ratio of oxidized and reduced cytochrome is then calculated from the values obtained from the solution of the equations . the present method has certain errors inherent in its application . these are : 1 . the method assumes beer &# 39 ; s law is linear . however , beer &# 39 ; s law is not linear in a scattered media or in the presence of large absorbance changes of other chromophores . 2 . the extinction coefficients of cytochrome have been measured in bloodless rats where cytochrome oxidase was assumed to exist either entirely in the oxidized or completely reduced state . experimental evidence has shown that a condition of total oxidation or reduction of cytochrome oxidase does not exist . also a slight hemoglobin contamination was present during these measurements for which no correction was made . therefore , the relative concentrations of the cytochromes that were calculated were not accurate . 3 . the effects of water absorption overtones cannot be taken into account by modeling with beer &# 39 ; s law . 4 . because of the limitations associated with items 1 and 2 , current niroscopic techniques do not permit consistent measurements in adult humans . the signal obtained in adult humans is extremely faint since it is being masked by the high hemoglobin concentration . the present inventors perceived a need to develop niroscopic techniques that would obviate these limitations . the following is the theoretical description of the bases of the innovation of the present invention . it is the contention of the present inventors that the aforementioned limitations of the niroscopic techniques can be overcome by the use of a specific range of near infrared waves ( 600 - 1100 nm ) from which the change of a single absorption curve is obtained and used directly or corrected and from which the relevant data can be extracted via model - free mathematical operations , i . e . fourier transform / deconvolution analyses ( fta / fda ). fourier transforms are commonly used for infrared analysis and in digital signal filtering techniques , but are not so used in analyses of near infrared data . there is no obvious theoretical reason why such analyses could not be performed on data obtained from near infrared analyses . therefore , the present inventors decided to incorporate such analyses in theoretical models . the data used to demonstrate our proposed fourier transform operations are derived from a theoretical construct . a family of spectra is generated using beer &# 39 ; s law , and a set of measured extinction coefficients for each of the chromophores ( nioka 1991 ), and assuming a certain published physiological concentration of each chromophore obtained from cope ( 1988 ) and miyake ( 1991 ). after assuming hemoglobin is 100 % oxygenated , each calculated spectrum for a specific cytochrome oxidase ( cyt - aa 3 ) redox ratio ( i . e . varying from reduced to oxidized in steps of 10 % is plotted as optical density versus the wave length range of 700 to 950 mn ( fig1 )). the cyt - aa 3 absorbance extraction is as follows . each spectrum in the resultant family of spectra ( fig1 ) is subjected to removal of the dc component by subtraction of the average ( i . e . total area under each curve divided by the wave length interval ), resulting in the curves shown in fig3 . the curves in fig3 are then subjected to fourier transform procedures . form the results of fourier transforms , it is observed that the only value that changes as a function of the cytochrome redox ratio is the real component in the fundamental frequency . fig2 shows the amplitude of this real component of the fundamental frequency is linearly proportional to the percent oxidized cytochrome oxidase ( i . e . redox ratio ) to the fifth significant figure ( i . e . 0 . 04212 div ./ redox ratio of cyt - aa 3 ). the theory of fourier transforms ( brighan 1988 ) explains the reason for linearity . fig2 displays the absorbance for each chromophore in the 700 - 1100 nm wave length range . notice that the oxidized cyt - aa 3 spectrum 454 completes one cycle ( i . e . the fundamental frequency in the 700 - 950 nm wave length interval ). none of the other chromophores have this feature . fourier transform operator separates out the contribution of each component harmonic . the only spectrum completing one cycle in the chosen wave length interval is oxidized cyt - aa 3 . the effect is to extract the cyt - aa 3 while filtering out all other absorbance bands . signal extraction is improved by another fourier transform feature . when a fourier transform is performed on a function ( i . e . absorbance spectra ), one real value and one imaginary value will be determined for each component frequency . the real value represents the symmetrical portion of the component frequency , and the imaginary represents the asymmetrical portion of the component frequency . for a wave length interval of 700 - 950 nm , cyt - aa 3 is symmetrical ( i . e . only the real component is representative ) which once again extracts the cyt - aa 3 absorbance peak and filters out all others . this is the reason why the real component of the fundamental frequency is significantly linearly proportional to cyt - aa 3 redox ratio . the extraction technique is also quite robust with respect to signal to noise ratios ( s / n ). calculations have shown , when reducing the s / n ratios from 45 to 1 . 39 , the fundamental real component 468 does not change appreciably (± 2 %). even when considering inexpensive , noisy spectrophotometers which have a low s / n ratio , the s / n , although low , usually remains relatively constant . it will be removed with the dc portion of absorbance spectra . this implies that as long as the signal can be extracted ( i . e . not completely buried ) noise will have little effect . removing the dc component and the fourier transform also reduces the effect of noise due to scattering . the effects of large variations in hb and water were studied by generating another theoretical construct of spectra ( i . e ., high and low concentrations for hb and water ). these spectra were processed , and the resultant real component of fourier transfer change approximately 2 %. because our goal is to have hb or water affect the signal by 1 % or less , a second fourier transfer tool may be required . this second tool , fourier deconvolution analysis ( fda ) has been explained in detail by blass ( 1981 ). the expected nir total absorbance spectra is a combination of the major absorbance curves shown in fig2 . both de - oxygenated hb 452 and reduced cytochrome oxidase 456 have spectra resembling exponential decay , except de - oxygenated hb has a narrow peak 469 with a half width of 30 nm , centered at approximately 760 nm . the oxygenated form of hemoglobin 450 and the oxidized state of cytochrome oxidase 454 have broad peaks , with cytochrome oxidase having a half width of 175 nm ( 725 - 900 nm ) centered at 830 nm and deoxygenated hemoglobin having a halfwidth of 400 nm centered at 812 nm . because both water and de - oxygenated hb have distinct peaks , fourier self - deconvolution can be applied ( blass 1981 ). it is a method for resolving intrinsically overlapping absorbency bands ( an nir total absorbance spectrum ) into each component absorption curve of interest ( de - oxygenated hemoglobin and water ). it is , however , noise sensitive ( i . e ., will resolve noise if s / n ratios are large enough ) and therefor requires an expensive ( noise free ) ccd spectrophotometer . if a noise free ( i . e ., s / n greater than 1000 ) spectrophotometer is used , fda allows monitoring deoxygenated hemoglobin , and water separately . if there is a change in cyt - aa 3 absorbance inflicted by hb or water overtones , a corresponding correction can be made to the cyt - aa 3 result . the ability to monitor cerebral edema or de - hydration ( changing water content ) will also be useful information and could be easily displayed separately . a third tool called differential absorption spectroscopy may also be utilized to enhance the extraction of the cyt - aa 3 absorbance contribution . rather than use an arbitrary reference ( water for transparent spectroscopy or water plus microspheres for diffuse spectroscopy ) a reference spectra is taken in vivo either at a certain time ( admission of the patient ) or tissue location ( lower distance from light source than sample — see fig1 , 14 , or 15 , probe 203 ). using these spectra as reference will allow sensitivity to be increased by measuring change in absorbance rather than the actual value of absorbance . in summary , increasing the sensitivity of measurement with differential absorption spectroscopy and by combining the accurate measurement of fta with the possible correction to the cyt - aa 3 measurement made by fda , we can non - invasively measure the change in the cyt - aa 3 redox ratio with a model - free analysis using standard digital signal conditioning techniques . this should result in improved accuracy in adolescent swine and ultimately in the adult human head . the preferred equipment ( see fig5 ) comprises a near infra - red light source 100 , an optical pickup unit 211 , and dual wave interval spectrophotometer 300 , and computational equipment 316 . near infra - red light source 100 ( see fig1 ) is preferably a 100 watt power light source 101 in a steady or pulsating mode ( frequency range 0 . 5 - 2 hz ). an example of a suitable unit would be oriel 100 watt quartz halogen light source with dc stabilized radiometric power supply , including photofeedback system , water filter , multiple filter holder / fiber optic adaptor ( oriel model numbers 66195 , 68850 , 61940 , 62020 and 77797 ). optical pickup unit 200 / 211 ( see fig1 , 14 , 15 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) consists of fiber optics light conduit 23 connected to a single or ring of collimating beam probes 202 which inputs the light . the background light receivers are recessed single or ring collimated beam probes 203 adjusted at the proper angle to received background light . the sample light is again a recessed single collimated beam probe 202 either at the center of the rings ( fig1 and 16 ) or in single operation adjusted at the proper angle to receive light input ( fig1 ) ( oriel model 77545 and 77645 ). it should be noted that if the signal separation is satisfactorily accurate , subtraction of the background signal will not be necessary thereby eliminating the need for 16 each background pickup optodes 203 , optical chopper 301 , and bifurcated fiber optics bundle 302 . the preferred alternate equipment schematic is shown in fig8 . dual wave interval spectrophotometer 300 consists of an optical chopper 301 , bifurcated bundle 302 , and ccd spectrophotometer with sensitivity adequate to measure 0 . 005 o . d . absorbance and a dynamic range capable of measuring 4 o . d . in a wave length range of 600 - 1150 nm . an example of a suitable unit would be oriel insta iv ccd system 1024 × 128 with instaspec wedge flange , multispec spectrograph and grating assembly ( oriel model numbers 77118 , 77439 , 77400 , 77415 ). computational equipment preferably comprises a computer 311 with at least the speed and storage capability of an ibm personal computer , pentium with math co - processor , 10 gigabyte hard disk with tape back up drive , a national instruments a / d converter card , labview software for control , and galatic grams 32 / igor software for analysis . all data storage will preferably be done on a 105 megabyte removable cartridge type hard disk 312 ( i . e . sydos ). the present inventors have access to a pre - existing swine model for acute resuscitation under hyperbaric oxygen conditions using external cardiac massage . measured parameters include ekg ; eeg ; arterial , mixed venous , and sagittal sinus blood gases ; arterial , pulmonary arterial , pulmonary arterial wedge , mixed venous , and sagittal sinus pressures ; mixed venous and sagittal sinus hemoglobin saturation by direct oximetry ; cardiac output ; core temperature ; and expired gas . presently , the animal is maintained for two hours after resuscitation during which time normal pressures and blood gases are maintained . the model will require modification to include validation by niroscope measurements against cerebral po 2 measurements taken by inserting an oxygen sensing electrode through a burr hole drilled in the skull . the model should also be extended to include a 72 hour chronic model . 4 . serial improvement in single photon emission computerized tomography ( spect ) brain scan by ceretec ® ( technetium hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime ( hmpao )). case work on injured and resuscitated divers indicates that ceretec spect brain scanning elucidates perfusion / metabolism defects in the brain . ( 19 ). to test the system and method of the present inventions , the following human studies will be conducted with proper informed consent from immediate family or custodial person with power of attorney . two groups of 20 human patients arriving in cardiopulmonary arrest at emergency departments with ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and acls will be stabilized by an emergency department hyperbaric acls team . the patients will be randomized into two groups . both groups will have the advantage of having hyperbaric environment modified michigan instrument automatic thumper ® and conventional acls pharmacology and acls algorithmic american heart association protocol . the subjects will be connected to a hyperbarically adapted volume cycled ventilator ( 10 mg / kg for tidal volume ) by endotracheal tube . partial arterial pressure of carbon dioxide ( paco 2 ) will be maintained at 40 mm hg by the rate of ventilation . the control group will be brought to pressure of 4 fsw ( 1 . 22 msw — meters of sea water ) and administered 100 % o 2 by the endotracheal tube . the niroscope will record the cerebral cortex redox ratio of cytochrome aa 3 . the treatment group will be initially administered 100 % o 2 , pressurized to minimum depths 60 fsw ( 18 . 3 msw ). once at 60 fsw ( 18 . 3 msw ), both breathing gas mixture and chamber pressure will be controlled by the attending emergency physician using the output of the niroscope as a guide . both groups will have cardiac monitoring by ekg and arterial continuous manometry by chart recorder . the patients post resuscitation , if successful , would have spect brain scan by ceretec ® hmpao utilizing a dedicated siemens triple head high resolution radionuclide camera with three - dimensional computer reconstructed brain images to determine the extent of ischemia - induced brain damage and the presence of potentially recoverable brain tissue . post - resuscitation treatment will include hbot at 1 . 5 ata ( atmospheres absolute ) twice a day for three days and once a day for four days . outcome indicators will include numbers 1 through 4 used in the animal experiment above , as well as percentage of improvement in hbot resuscitated patients . in addition , neurological function will be evaluated by a to - be - determined method . the development of superior mathematical separation techniques was necessary because although the technology for small animals and neonates has been available , it has not successfully been applied to adults . the niroscope is considered necessary for hbot resuscitation . it would also be considered an invaluable tool for routine acls resuscitations at one atmosphere . niroscopy will help to optimize treatments thereby limiting the exposure of patients and attending medical personnel to pressure environments greater than that which is necessary . thus , it helps prevent patients from being exposed unnecessarily to too high pressures of oxygen while simultaneously helping to reduce the possibility of dysbaric incidents in the attending personnel . any technology that informs physicians as to the efficacy of their resuscitation efforts would be extremely helpful . three different authors are proposing to use tissue or blood oxygen content for helping to evaluate success of resuscitative efforts by physicians . the niroscope 51 and 52 is shown in fig1 through 21 with the total niroscopic system shown in fig2 and 22 . the system is composed of a stabilized near infrared ( nir ) light source 100 ( fig1 ) which includes a stabilized power supply 110 , quartz tungsten halogen light element 102 , a parabolic light collector 111 , a hot mirror 105 which eliminates visible and far infrared , and fiber optics light conduit 107 . a band pass ( 600 - 1100 nm ) optical ( special order from oriel ) filter can also be used . nir light is transported via a fiber optics light conduit 216 and introduced into the patient &# 39 ; s cranium by the pickup unit 200 , 211 . the pickup unit 200 , 211 can be arranged in a single point mode ( fig1 ) or for maximum nir light delivery , a ring arrangement ( fig1 , 15 , and 16 ) or without background correction ( fig1 , 18 , or 19 ). referring back again to fig2 , nir light is delivered to the pickup unit 211 / 230 / 250 by fiber optics light conduit 216 through the wall 24 of the chamber 20 to the light input optode 202 , traverses through the scalp 205 ( see fig1 ), skull 206 , dura matter 207 , pia 208 , arachnoid 209 and cerebral cortex 210 , and back out again in reverse order via the nir diffuse light path 212 , 213 . it has been theoretically predicted by bonner and experimentally validated by mccormick that the depth of light penetration into the cranium is a function of optode spacing . an optode spacing of 5 cm has been found to be necessary to reach the cerebral cortex . background pickup optode / ring 203 is located at a distance of approximately 3 cm . this distance is adequate to receive photons that have traversed the scalp and skull but not deep enough to reach the cerebral cortex . the sample pickup optode 204 is positioned to receive photons that have traversed the scalp , skull dura matter , and pia . subtraction of the background signal from the sample signal results in only the signal representing the cerebral cortex . absorption spectroscopy requires that the initial light source spectrum be subtracted from the measured light spectrum after traversing through the tissue . the source absorbance spectrum emanating from the cerebral cortex can be highlighted by subtracting any absorbance due to the overlying tissues ( i . e ., scalp , skull , etc . ), from the spectrum measured at pickup optode 204 . the spectrum from the signal pickup optode 204 and the background pickup optode 203 are routed to the dual wave interval spectrophotometer 300 by fiber optic conduits 218 , 220 ( fig2 ). both signals are received by a optical chopper 301 where they are presented to the charge - coupled device 307 in sequence via an aperture 304 and optical grading 306 . it should be noted that electronic shutters ( made by newport model 845 hp ) could replace the optical chopper of low light level applications where needed . the optical grading 306 spreads the spectrum out over the ccd in such a manner that the photon spectra is converted into an electronic spectra which is amplified by amplifier 308 and converted into a digital signal by a / d converter 309 and digitally stored by digital data storage unit 312 . proper sequencing and timing is performed by clock driver 315 . in memory digital data storage unit 312 , two data streams are stored ( i . e . sample and background spectra ) ( see fig2 ). data storage unit 312 has available real time alternating background spectra 402 and real time alternating sample spectra 403 . all noise pixels are corrected in all spectra 412 and smoothed by sav - golay smoothing function ( 2 nd degree polynomial with 51 points ) 405 . a difference absorption spectrum is then calculated 413 using each pair of background 402 and sample 403 spectrum . an example of calculated difference absorption spectrum 3 is shown in fig1 . next , the dc component of the difference spectrum 3 is removed by integrating the spectrum 3 over the wave length span 400 to 1100 nm , calculating the average wavelength adjustment by dividing the result of the integral by the wave length span interval , and then subtracting the resultant from each wave length absorbance value in the wave length span . an example of absorbance spectrum with dc component removed 5 is in fig2 . at this point the fourier window 406 will be established . the fourier window is the wave length interval about which the fourier transform will be taken . it can be a general window which will separate each chromophore ( i . e . oxidized and reduced cytochrome oxidase , oxyhemoglobin , deoxyhemoglobin , and water ) into specific harmonic components , or a window for each chromophore can be established . at this point a fourier transform 408 of the spectrum is computed resulting in values for each chromophore . as an alternate , fourier deconvolution analysis 409 may be used if a more accurate indices of chromophore change is resulted . the resulting indices ( for change in oxidized and reduced cytochrome oxidase , oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin , and water ) are stored 410 in data storage unit 312 . these values may be displayed directly on monitor 313 as a function of time start of data acquisition or summed 411 and applied 460 to correct the cytochrome oxidase indices if the absorbance peaks are found to be interdependent . an alternate simplified method shown in fig2 is as follows . rather than taking background spectra alternately with sample spectra , a single background spectrum is established before any sample spectrum is taken . immediately after setup , a series of twenty spectra 418 are taken ( for example with 6 second exposure and 4 second interval ) and stored in data storage unit 312 . individual noise pixels are corrected 412 . these twenty spectra are averaged 404 resulting in one average spectrum . the average spectrum is used as a constant background spectrum for the absorbance calculation of all subsequent sample spectra . all other steps remain the same as in fig2 . this technique allow a less complicated arrangement as shown in fig8 verses the more complex arrangement shown in fig7 . all processing is preferably done in pentium computer 311 , with galatic - gram 32 software . all of this equipment is commercially available in the form of a personal computer and a ccd spectrophotometer made by oriel inc . all optical equipment used with the present invention is preferably from oriel inc . all control software is preferably from national instrument and analytical software is preferably grams 32 from galatic and igor . the computer is preferably a standard pentium . all measurements disclosed herein are at standard temperature and pressure , at sea level on earth , unless indicated otherwise . all materials used or intended to be used in a human being are biocompatible , unless indicated otherwise . 1 . virtis , m . cost / benefit analysis of cardiopulmonary resuscitation : a comprehensive study - part ii . nursing management 23 ( 4 ): 50 - 54 , 1992 . 2 . ebell , m . & amp ; kruse , j . a proposed model for the cost of cardiopulmonary resuscitation . medical care 32 ( 6 ): 640 - 649 , 1994 . 3 . safar , p . cerebral resuscitation after cardiac arrest : research initiatives and future directions . ann of emerg med 22 ( 2 ): 2324 - 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155 . incorporated herein by reference is the paper entitled “ cytochrome oxidase reduction / oxidation charge coupled monitor with large area pickup optode ”, which describes results of the invention of the present inventors applied to a swine model . the foregoing embodiments are presented by way of example only ; the scope of the present invention is to be limited only by the following claims .