Patents Assigned to Quiecor Heart Treatment Centers of America
  • Patent number: 8728016
    Abstract: A method for therapeutically affecting the circulation of blood in a person in combination with or with medication to treat a medical condition includes the steps of administering a composition for treating a circulatory condition, providing a source of high pressure air in fluid communication with a plurality of air pressure actuated valves, each of the valves mounted on, and in fluid communication with, an inflatable bladder disposed within a cuff removably attached about at least one of the feet, calves, thighs, buttocks of the person; providing a source of low pressure air in fluid communication with said plurality of valves, wherein a constant pressure is exerted against said valves; and controlling inflation of said bladders in a predetermined sequence, magnitude of inflation pressure and period of time during a cardiac cycle of the person and as a function of said person's physiological reaction to said composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Quiecor Heart Treatment Centers of America
    Inventors: Jonathan W. Reeves, William H. Reeves