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US 11,229,755 B2Granted
Hydration system
AssigneeLexion Medical, LLC
InventorsDouglas E. Ott, Nathanial Tran
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Abstract
A medical gas condition system for supplying a liquid hydration fluid to a hydrator before or during an ongoing medical procedure by coupling the flow of liquid hydration fluid into the hydrator to either the absence of flow of medical insufflation gas into the hydrator or to a condition where the liquid hydration fluid can be absorbed by a hydrator without being forced through the hydrator in liquid form.
Claims8
A method of automatically hydrating a medical insufflation gas during a medical procedure comprising:
- measuring a volume flow of the medical insufflation gas through a flow meter;
- sending a signal from the flow meter to a controller in response to the volume flow of the medical insufflation gas through the flow meter;
- activating an electrically powered hydration fluid pump in response to the signal from the controller that is in electrical communication with the electrically powered hydration fluid pump;
- and determining a first condition when there is no flow of the volume flow of the medical insufflation gas or a second condition when the volume flow of the medical insufflation gas to a hydrator is sufficiently slow so that a liquid hydration fluid is absorbed by the medical insufflation gas which is determined through an observing of the volume flow of the medical insufflation gas through the hydrator;
- and pumping liquid hydration fluid into hydrator during the first condition or the second condition to hydrate the medical insufflation gas while allowing the liquid hydration fluid to be absorbed by the medical insufflation gas therein without forcing the liquid hydration fluid through the hydrator.
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