Abstract: A method and apparatus for delivering a humidified stream of gas to an animal's respiratory tract. The gas is delivered at a dew point temperature greater than the ambient dew point temperature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 1989
Date of Patent:
September 11, 1990
Assignee:
Transpirator Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard H. Blackmer, Jonathan W. Hedman
Abstract: An method and apparatus for delivering a humidified stream of gas to a young animal's respiratory tract. The gas is delivered at a dew point temperature greater than the ambient dew point temperature. The apparatus is especially useful in the treatment of foal pneumonia.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 10, 1989
Date of Patent:
September 4, 1990
Assignee:
Transpirator Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard H. Blackmer, Jonathan W. Hedman
Abstract: A method and an apparatus are described which are useful for respiratory tract therapy. The method comprises contact of mucous membranes with vapor-phase water in the substantial absence of nucleating water-vapor condensation particulate, and includes the use of a heated delivery tube, unheated nasal cannula, for the delivery of a nasal cannula vapor/gas stream to a nasal passageway at delivery rates in excess of 8 liters per minute at dew point temperatures equal to or less than dry bulb temperatures and heating of a delivery tube vapor-gas stream to a temperature sufficiently greater than the canula nare dew point use temperature in order to cause a readily observable cannula condensation film to form near the exit use ports thereby signaling that the appropriate cannula delivery stream dew point-dry bulb temperature differential exists which insures that the dry bulb nare exit temperature is equal to or greater than the nare dew point use temperature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 25, 1987
Date of Patent:
September 27, 1988
Assignee:
Transpirator Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard H. Blackmer, Christopher C. Consaul
Abstract: A high humidity method and an apparatus are described which are useful for conditioning a pulmonary and/or a cardiovascular system in a large animal. The method broadly comprises delivering a humidified air stream at a dew point temperature greater than the environmental ambient dew point temperature to an animal's respiratory tract.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 16, 1985
Date of Patent:
February 2, 1988
Assignee:
Transpirator Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard H. Blackmer, Jonathan W. Hedman