In one embodiment, a method of rehabilitating a patients cardiac/pulmonary activity and achieving increased fluid distribution, includes placing one inflatable/deflatable chest cuff over the patients chest area and another inflatable/deflatable cuff over the patients abdominal area, the chest cuff, when inflated, being arranged to depress the chest and force air out of the patients lungs, the abdominal cuff being arranged, when inflated to apply pressure to the underlying vessels to direct blood into the patients chest area inflating and deflating the chest cuff and the abdominal cuff connecting an intravenous (IV) line to one of the patients blood vessels.In another embodiment, a patient interface kit for a system for providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation or circulatory support to a patient.
