US 12,128,004 B2
Systems and methods for treating fluid stasis
Mark Hernandez, Austin, TX (US); Mateusz Gierdalski, College Station, TX (US); Steven S. Golden, Menlo Park, CA (US); and James Lee, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to Slipstream Solutions, LLC., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Slipstream Solutions, LLC., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on May 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/665,969.
Application 18/665,969 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2023/073341, filed on Sep. 1, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/403,032, filed on Sep. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0299234 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. A61H 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 9/0071 (2013.01) [A61H 9/0057 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5056 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5082 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5092 (2013.01); A61H 2209/00 (2013.01); A61H 2230/655 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for treating fluid stasis, the system comprising:
an airstream nozzle comprising an airstream nozzle inlet configured to receive an airflow and an airstream nozzle outlet orifice configured to output an airstream generated from the airflow, wherein the airstream is configured to be directed onto a skin of a patient to induce shear-thinning of static fluid and/or movement of static fluid toward one or more natural drainage areas for static fluid, wherein the airstream nozzle outlet orifice has an airstream nozzle outlet orifice cross-sectional area;
an airflow hose configured for supplying the airflow to the airstream nozzle; and
an airflow generator operable to generate and output the airflow to the airflow hose at a flow rate in a range from 1.3 m3/min to 7.1 m3/min, wherein a ratio of the flow rate to the airstream nozzle outlet orifice cross-sectional area is in a range from 0.004 (m3/min)/mm2 to 0.020 (m3/min)/mm2, wherein the flow rate is at least 0.85 m3/min, and wherein the airflow has a pressure in a range from 10,000 Pa to 35,000 Pa within the airstream nozzle upstream of the airstream nozzle outlet orifice.