Method and apparatus for maintaining airway patency
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Jul 22, 2003
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Apr 17, 2000
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A method is provided for effecting improved airway ventilation of a patient during sleep which involves delivering a burst or pulse of pressurized air through the patient's nose and into the patient's airway upon the termination of each breath exhalation. The apparatus of the invention includes an expandable-contractible chamber for collecting and then delivering a bolus of air through a nasal device providing sealed entry of the patient's airway, and means responsive to the exhaled breath of the patient that triggers delivery of the bolus of air, all of the foregoing preferably being contained in a compact housing that is positionable near the head of the patient.
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