Devices and Methods for Making and Administering an Intravenous Liquid with Supersaturated Dissolved Gas

摘要

Methods and devices for treating patients using high partial pressures of dissolved gas in a liquid. Greater than hyperbaric partial pressures of gas may be dissolved and maintained in the liquid when mixing occurs at ambient pressure. Additional increases in dissolved gas partial pressure may be achieved when the temperature of the liquid is further decreased. The method further includes administering the liquid intravenously via a conventional catheter. Gas exchange occurs due to diffusion upon mixing of the liquid and blood within the vasculature of the patient.