This application further incorporates by reference in their entireties: U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 10/771,803 (U.S. Printed Publication 2005/0034721), filed Feb. 4, 2004, U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 10/870,849 (U.S. Printed Publication 2005/0005936), filed Jun. 17, 2004, and U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 12/239,723 (U.S. Printed Publication 2009/0151724), filed Sep. 26, 2008.
The present invention relates to ventilation therapy for persons suffering from respiratory impairment and breathing disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary fibrosis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), neuromuscular impairment, sleep apnea, influenza, various forms of mass casualty, and military use, and/or other breathing and airway impairments. More specifically, the present invention relates to providing mechanical respiratory support to a patient in an open airway ventilation system.
There are two general types of mechanical ventilation control modes. A first type delivers gas to a patient based on a frequency selected by the clinician which is independent of patient activity. This type of ventilation, known as controlled mechanical ventilation, is used when the ventilator is needed to breathe for the patient such as when the patient is non-alert, sedated, unresponsive or paralyzed. A second type of ventilation, known as assisted mechanical ventilation, or assisted ventilation, or augmented ventilation, delivers gas to the patient in response to an inspiratory effort generated by the patient. This type of ventilation helps the patient breathe, such as when the patient has respiratory insufficiency such as COPD. There are also ventilators and modes of ventilation that combine the two modes of ventilation described above.
In the use of all ventilators a gas delivery circuit is required to deliver the gas from the ventilator to the patient. Also required is a ventilation patient interface which is in communication with the patient's airway. The gas delivery circuit connects to the patient interface so that the ventilator can deliver air into the patient's airway through the gas delivery circuit and through the patient interface. These interfaces can be non-invasive such as a mask over the nose and/or mouth or a nasal cannula, or can be invasive, such as an endotracheal tube, tracheostomy tube, or transtracheal catheter which is placed into the airway of the patient.
In a more specific case of respiratory support ventilation, the patient receives gas from the ventilator with a patient interface configuration known as an “open airway” system, meaning the patient's respiratory tract is open to atmosphere through their normal upper airway breathing routes (mouth and nose). Open airway ventilation (OAV) when used is typically used with spontaneously breathing patients who need respiratory support; however, OAV can also be used for ventilator dependent patients who cannot breathe. In the former case, the patient may be breathing “spontaneously” or naturally through their upper airway but their breathing is augmented by receiving additional gas from the ventilator through the “open” patient interface. The goal of this therapy is to help the patient's work of breathing with an OAV system, such that the patient is not encumbered with the various problems, limitations, obtrusiveness and side effects of closed airway positive pressure ventilation. This system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,487,778 (Freitag) and US Printed Publication 2005/0005936 (Wondka). The ventilation interface described in this prior art is typically a transtracheal ventilation catheter that is placed percutaneously through the patient's neck into the tracheal lumen, or a catheter placed into an existing airway tube, such as an uncuffed tracheostomy tube. Alternatively, the ventilation catheter is placed into a stent or stoma guide, such as a Montgomery T-Tube, or an endotracheal tube, or an airway prosthesis. In OAV, providing mechanical ventilation support to the lungs is not obviously possible, because air delivered from the ventilator has the potential of leaking out of the upper airway if the airway is open, thus rendering the system ineffective and limiting the additive volume that can be delivered to the lung. Therefore, special airflow delivery fluid dynamics are required to make the system efficacious and efficient, and special delivery systems and interface designs are required to accomplish these dynamics.
The present invention may be directed to methods and systems for providing ventilation mechanical support in an open airway ventilation system. In an embodiment of the present invention, a ventilation system may include a ventilator for supplying ventilation gas. A patient interface may include distal end in communication with a patient airway, a proximal end in communication with ambient air, and an airflow channel between the distal end and the proximal end. A gas delivery circuit may be adapted to attach to the patient interface without occluding the patient interface to allow ambient air to flow from outside the patient interface to the patient airway. The ventilation gas may entrain air from ambient and from the patient airway.
In another embodiment of the present invention, a ventilation system may include a ventilator for supplying ventilation gas. A patient interface may include distal end in communication with a patient airway, a proximal end in communication with ambient air, and an airflow channel between the distal end and the proximal end. A gas delivery circuit may be adapted to attach to the patient interface without occluding the patient interface to allow ambient air to flow from outside the patient interface to the patient airway. The gas delivery circuit may include a nozzle on a distal end of the gas delivery circuit, and wherein the nozzle is positioned outside the patient interface when supplying ventilation gas.
In another embodiment of the present invention, a ventilation system may include a ventilator for supplying ventilation gas. A patient interface may include distal end in communication with a patient airway, a proximal end in communication with ambient air, and an airflow channel between the distal end and the proximal end. The distal end may include one or more fenestrations. A gas delivery circuit may be adapted to attach to the patient interface without occluding the patient interface to allow ambient air to flow from outside the patient interface to the patient airway. The gas delivery circuit may include a nozzle located within the patient interface where the nozzle is positioned in proximity to the one or more fenestrations when supplying ventilation gas.
Embodiments of the present invention may include a ventilation system including a ventilator, a gas delivery circuit and a patient interface, the patient interface including a distal end in communication with a patient airway and a proximal end in communication with ambient air, wherein the gas delivery circuit is adapted to attach to the patient interface without occluding the patient interface to allow ambient air to flow from outside the interface into the patient airway, and wherein the gas delivery circuit is adapted to deliver the ventilator gas into the patient airway through the patient interface. Embodiments of the present invention may also include a ventilation system including a ventilator, a gas delivery circuit, and a patient interface, wherein the patient interface includes a distal end and a proximal end and an airflow channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end, wherein the distal end is in communication with a patient airway, and wherein the proximal end is in communication with ambient air, and wherein: (a) the gas delivery circuit includes a first end connected to the ventilator and a second end connected to the patient interface, and wherein the second end connection to the patient interface does not occlude the airflow channel such that ambient air can flow through the airflow channel into the airway; and (b) wherein the gas delivery circuit delivers gas from the ventilator to the patient airway. Embodiments of the present invention may also include a ventilation system including a ventilator, a gas delivery circuit, and a patient interface, wherein the patient interface includes a distal end and a proximal end and a airflow channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end, wherein the distal end is in communication with a patient airway, and wherein the proximal end is in communication with ambient air, and wherein: (a) the gas delivery circuit includes a first end connected to the ventilator and a second end connected to the patient interface, and wherein the second end connection to the patient interface does not occlude the airflow channel such that ambient air can flow through the airflow channel into the airway, and lung air can flow out of the airflow channel to ambient air; and (b) wherein the gas delivery circuit delivers gas from the ventilator to the patient airway. Embodiments of the present invention may also include a ventilation system including a ventilator and a gas delivery circuit, wherein the gas delivery circuit includes a first end adapted to connect to the ventilator and a second end including a connector adapted to connect to a ventilation patient interface, wherein the second end connector is adapted to connect to the ventilation patient interface so the ventilation patient interface maintains an open channel such that the open channel allows ambient air to flow from ambient through the patient interface into an airway.
Embodiments of the present invention may also include that the ventilator gas is delivered as a volume synchronized with the patient's inspiratory cycle, in which the volume is selected by the user. The ventilator gas may be delivered continuously, cyclically at a rate determined by the ventilator, as a volume cyclically synchronized with the patients breathing, and with a back up rate to deliver a mandatory number of breaths over a period of time, or as a volume cyclically during an inspiratory cycle to reduce the work of breathing, and during an expiratory cycle to create PEEP. The system may be used to treat a lung disease, a breathing disorder, or a neuromuscular disorder. The system may be used with a portable gas supply and used to enhance mobility. The patient interface may be an airway tube, tracheostomy tube, a T-tube, and stomal stent, a stoma, an endotracheal tube, a trans-cricothryoid tube, a trans-laryngectomy tube, a mask, a nasal mask, an oral mask, a nasal-oral mask, a cannula, a transtracheal cannula, a nasal cannula, an oral cannula, or a nasal-pharyngeal cannula.
Embodiments of the present invention may include those where the second end of the gas delivery circuit includes two gas delivery exit ports, and wherein the ventilation patient interface includes a left and right nasal cannula; where the second end of the gas delivery circuit includes a distal tip, wherein the distal tip includes a gas delivery nozzle and is adapted to locate the gas delivery nozzle between a distal end and proximal end of the ventilation patient interface; where the gas delivery circuit distal tip coplanar with entrance of the airway tube; where the gas delivery circuit distal tip is outside of entrance to airway tube; where the gas delivery circuit distal tip is coplanar with transition from straight section to curved section; where the gas delivery circuit connection to the patient interface includes an adjustment to adjust the position of the distal tip of the nozzle.
In certain embodiments, the patient interface may be an airway tube and the airway tube includes a fenestration and the gas delivery circuit distal tip is located near the fenestration; the gas delivery circuit distal tip is low profile, nozzle is side port in gas delivery circuit distal tip; the gas delivery circuit distal tip is angled to point toward distal end opening of airway tube; the gas delivery circuit distal end attaches to patient interface with an elbow connector; the gas delivery circuit distal end attaches to patient interface with an T-shaped connector; the gas delivery circuit distal end attaches to patient interface with an L-shaped connector; the gas delivery circuit distal end attaches to patient interface with an swivel connector; the gas delivery circuit distal attaches to patient interface with a connector which includes a one-way inspiratory valve allowing air flow in the inspired direction; the gas delivery circuit distal end attaches to patient interface with a connector which includes a one-way expiratory valve allowing air flow in the exhaled direction; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a PEEP valve; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a PEEP valve wherein the PEEP valve includes an adjustment; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a PEEP valve wherein the PEEP valve setting is controlled by a pressure signal provided by the ventilator; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes an Inspiratory and Expiratory valve; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes an Inspiratory and PEEP valve; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a baffle connection; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a Heat moisture exchanger; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a connector with a HME, inspiratory valve, and PEEP valve; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a connector with a side connector; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection to the patient interface includes a connector with two side connectors; the gas delivery circuit distal end connection connects to the inside of the patient interface; or the gas delivery circuit distal end nozzle includes a tapered ID where the tapered ID restricts the ID from a larger dimension to a smaller dimension at the nozzle distal tip.
In certain embodiments, the ventilator gas exits the gas delivery circuit distal end as a Jet, with an exit speed of 50-350 meters per second; the ventilator gas exits the gas delivery circuit distal end as a jet, which entrains ambient air from outside the connector, where the entrainment is 25-300% of the ventilator gas.
In certain embodiments, the system includes sensors to measure the amount of air entrainment, and a control unit to adjust and regulating the amount of entrainment. The system may include humidity delivery, a humidification lumen, or a humidified gas delivery attachment. The gas delivery circuit distal end may include a breath sensor, which may be a breath sensor is a pressure sensing line included of a sensing lumen and sensing port; a sensing port orthogonal to air flow path facing distal direction; a sensing port orthogonal to air flow path facing proximal direction; sensing port parallel with gas flow path; a thermal flow sensor; an airway pressure sensing extension line adapted to extend a distance into the airway tube; an airway pressure sensing channel, and wherein the gas delivery circuit includes sensing connector to connect to the patient interface sensing channel; or a ventilation gas delivery channel, a pressure sensing channel, a humidification delivery channel, an oxygen bleed delivery channel, an oxygen and CO2 sensing channel, and a thermal sensor wire channel.
Embodiments may include those where the ventilation gas is air and oxygen is bled into the airway tube; the ventilation gas is oxygen; the ventilation gas is blended air and oxygen; or an oxygen sensing mechanism; a CO2 sensing mechanism. In certain embodiments the ventilator is adapted to vary the gas output parameters to achieve a desired FIO2; the ventilator is adapted to vary the gas output parameters to achieve a desired airway pressure; the ventilator is adapted to vary the gas output parameters to achieve a desired lung volume; the ventilator is adapted to vary the gas output parameters to achieve a desired inspiratory flow rate; a therapeutic gas is bled into the patient interface, such as helium, NO, HeliOx; output titration algorithms, to adjust the delivery of volume based on patient activity level using biofeedback, such as respiratory rate, inspiratory strength, I:E ratio, exhaled gas composition; output triggering algorithms, to adjust the timing of the delivery of volume based on patient comfort and activity level using biofeedback, such as respiratory rate, inspiratory strength, I:E ratio, exhaled gas composition; delivering blended air and oxygen and wherein the ventilator includes a blender, an external oxygen and air supply, and an external compressor; delivering blended air and oxygen and wherein the ventilator includes a blender, an external oxygen and air supply, and an internal compressor; or delivering blended air and oxygen and wherein the ventilator includes a blender, an external oxygen supply wherein the external oxygen supply is selected from the group of compressed oxygen gas, liquid oxygen or an oxygen concentrator, and an internal compressor, a gas analyzer, a humidifier unit, a microprocessor control system, and a lung volume sensor.
Additional features, advantages, and embodiments of the invention are set forth or apparent from consideration of the following detailed description, drawings and claims. Moreover, it is to be understood that both the foregoing summary of the invention and the following detailed description are exemplary and intended to provide further explanation without limiting the scope of the invention as claimed.
The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention and together with the detailed description serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:
In some cases, special airflow delivery fluid dynamics can be created by special drive pressures and escape velocities of the ventilation gas, and in other cases the special airflow delivery fluid dynamics can be created by special patient interface configurations. Embodiments of the present invention may include special patient interface configurations and geometries that optimize the efficacy of open system augmented ventilation.
An open ventilation system is described by Freitag in US Patent Application No. 2005/0003472 and by Wondka in US Patent Application No. 2005/0005936. In these references, the breathing circuit is small for reasons of un-obtrusiveness and convenience to the user, or because of other performance factors such as gas delivery dynamics, and hence the patient exhales completely through their natural breathing route (upper airway), and only receives augmented ventilation through the breathing circuit. Due to special ventilator driving pressures and gas exit fluid dynamics out of the catheter, the ventilator has the potential of increasing lung volume or pressure despite the fact that it is an open upper airway system. Standard gas delivery techniques, such as with oxygen therapy, the lung volume and pressure would not be affected.
Embodiments of the present invention may impact efficacy. The location of the tip of the ventilation catheter relative to the tracheostomy tube, or more generically an airway tube, is a key primary contributor to the amount of air entrained, and, therefore, the physical efficiency of the system, and to the amount of volume and pressure that the ventilation system can create in the patient's lung. Increasing pressure or volume in the patient's lung is necessary for the system to be clinically efficacious. For example, an increase of inspiratory lung pressure from an unassisted value of −5 cmH2O to an assisted value of −1 cmH2O may reduce the inspiratory muscle work and provide relief and support to the patient. Or, an increase of lung pressure from an unassisted value of −5 cmH2O to an assisted value of +5 cmH2O may provide relief and even more support to the patient. In a spontaneously breathing patient, these pressure increases can be considered potential increases, as the patient effort may compensate by expending more or less breathing effort based on the sensation of the ventilation support. In a ventilator dependent patient or controlled breath, the pressure increases may apply. The higher the increase in lung pressure caused by the ventilator system, the higher the potential increase in lung volume, which is also efficacious in improving gas exchange. Also, for obstructive lung disease patients, the added support from the ventilation system may shorten inspiratory time, which may provide a longer time for exhalation and reduce dynamic hyperinflation. The work of breathing assistance provided by the potential of increased lung pressure may unload and rest the respiratory muscles, so that they have more strength and reserve which may help re-model the lung mechanics and potentially reduce static hyperinflation. In restrictive lung disease patients the potential for increased lung pressures and lung volumes may help compensate for the restrictive airways and stiff lung, giving the sensation that it is easier to breathe. For neuromuscular patients, the increased lung pressures and volume help compensate for the body's inability to neurologically or mechanically breathe adequately. Other contributors to the physically efficiency and clinical efficacy of the ventilation system include the exit velocity of gas exiting the ventilation catheter, the alignment of the velocity of the gas relative to the tip of the airway tube or the airway lumen, the gas volume surrounding and in the immediate vicinity of the ventilation catheter nozzle.
Three cases may be considered for the location of the tip of the ventilation catheter with respect to the airway tube. In Case A (
In Case A, the jet has the opportunity to entrain gas in the airway. In the case that the airway is the trachea or another large airway, this volume of gas in the airway column is substantial. One skilled in the art of jet pump design might expect therefore that the Case A tip position would be the optimal configuration to optimize entrainment, compared to Case B and Case C. However, empirical examination reveals that Case B and Case C result in superior entrainment efficiency over Case A. In Case B, the jet entrains some air from outside the proximal end of the airway tube and this entrainment can exceed the entrainment of Case A. Case C provides the best entrainment efficiency, which may not be intuitive. One skilled in the art may think that the gas exiting the catheter tip outside of the airway tube would create turbulence at the entrance to the airway tube, and significantly degrade performance. However, empirical evaluation reveals that this is not the case and rather, the velocity flow profile is well organized as it enters the entrance to the airway tube, along with the entrained ambient air. Referring back to Case B, where the airway tube has an aperture near the position of the catheter tip, for example, the fenestration in a trach tube, the system has two potential sources of entrainment: (1) ambient air from outside the airway, and (2) airway air through the fenestration. This case can improve the efficiency of Case B, however, is still not as efficient as Case C. Another advantage of Case C is that it is less prone to performance degradation based on misalignment between the catheter tip and the airway tube tip.
Note, however, that Case A and Case B are advantageous over Case C in terms of delivering humidified gas to the lung. Case C delivers the most un-humidified gas because of the high amount of ambient air entrained verses Case A, which delivers the most humidified gas because the entrained gas is from the upper airway which is humidified by the nasal passage. Case B and Case C, however, can be modified by introducing artificial humidification with the ventilation and entrained gas, or by using a heat moisture exchanger. Some exemplary values of Case A, B and C are listed below in Table 1.
The values above are based on a ventilator gas delivery of 15 lpm, which is near the low end of the range of ventilator flow rate in this invention. Typically the ventilator flow rate in this invention may be 15-40 lpm average flow rate, and 20-60 lpm peak flow rate. As the flow rate increases, the entrainment percentage increases in a linear relationship, and the pressure potential increase, increases in a squared relationship. Non-intuitively, the amount of air entrained from the upper airway in Case A is less than the ambient air entrained through the proximal end of the airway tube. Referring back to Case B, it may be beneficial if the axial centerline of the distal tip of the catheter is aligned with the axial centerline of the distal tip of the airway tube, so that the jet exiting the tip of the catheter does not collide with the inner wall of the airway tube. This alignment may preferably be within approximately 10 degrees of perfectly aligned. Entrainment performance may degrade due to turbulence and disorganized air flow velocity profiles occurring between the catheter tip and the airway tube tip.
Previous examples of the open airway interface describe connections to the patient interface that protrude away from the patient.
In the various embodiments of the present invention, the therapy can include a ventilator gas output of 21-100% oxygen. Or, supplemental oxygen gas can be delivered at various alternative locations, and at various points within the breath cycle (inspiration, expiration, cyclically and continuously). The ventilator output can be synchronized with all possible alternatives of the inspiratory cycle, such as early delivered early in inspiration, delivered after a delay, at the middle of inspiration, at the end of inspiration, or overlapping with inspiratory/expiratory phase transition.
Embodiments of the present invention may include various patterns and configurations of fenestrations in the airway tube to allow gas from the airway to also be entrained into the airway tube and out the airway tube distal end toward the lungs. The shape of fenestrations may be circular, oval, or any other reasonable shape, and the fenestrations may be located at any location on the airway tube.
The breathing sensors may be part of the ventilation catheter as is typically shown, or may be part of the airway tube, or maybe inside or outside of the airway, or may be a sensor not associated with the catheter or airway tube. These sensors can measure the patient's respiration pattern for synchronization of the ventilator as desired, and can also measure the entrainment, so the system intelligently knows what the entrainment levels are. This later information can be used to alter the configuration to adjust the source and amplitude of the entrainment. One or more pressure taps may be used to measure gas flow through the airway tube.
Although the foregoing description is directed to the preferred embodiments of the invention, it is noted that other variations and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Moreover, features described in connection with one embodiment of the invention may be used in conjunction with other embodiments, even if not explicitly stated above.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/091,198, filed Aug. 22, 2008 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/136,269, filed Aug. 22, 2008; the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
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