A - Human Necessities – 61 – M
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
M
A61M 1/02 (2006.01) A61M 1/36 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2174806
The instant invention provides a method and apparatus for enabling withdrawal and extracorporeal therapeutic treatment of the substantially entire internal blood supply of a living patient whose blood contains a harmful agent, during a single continuous time interval. The instant method in its broadest expression contemplates the steps of: (a) cooling the body temperature of the patient to about a hypothermic state; (b) withdrawing substantially all blood from the patient; (c) optionally, transfusing into and recirculating within the patient, a fluid comprising other blood or an oxygenated blood substitute and at least one component having qualities for enabling it to render the harmful agents harmless to the patient, and which is at about hypothermic temperature; (d) therapeutically treating the patient's withdrawn blood so as to disable and/or remove the harmful agents and/or their by-products therefrom (e) recooling the patient's withdrawn blood again to about a state of hypothermia if and as required; (f) withdrawing the fluid of optional step (g), if that step is elected; and (h) re-transfusing the patient's therapeutically treated blood back into the patient. Although the invention has special application to a patient whose blood is contaminated by substantially any one or combination of blood born harmful agents such as viruses, organic toxins, inorganic toxins, parasites, pathogens, and the like, with particular application to the HIV virus. As noted above the invention also optionally contemplates treatment of the internal blood wetted surfaces of the patient's blood circulatory system during and within the aforementioned single continuous time interval.
Sever Frank Jr.
Adams Patent & Trademark Agency
Sever Frank Jr.
LandOfFree
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