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8161967 |
Bougie device
A bougie device for guiding insertion of an endotracheal tube into an airway of a person, comprises an elongate body of shape memory and self-lubricating material, for example Teflon™. A...
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8151798 |
Multiple cannula systems and methods
The preferred embodiments provide, e.g., a high quality flexible tracheostomy tube assembly including an outer tracheostomy cannula and a disposable, flexible inner cannula. In preferred...
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8151791 |
Methods and devices for performing an emergency or non-emergency tracheotomy
Methods and devices for performing emergency and non-emergency tracheotomies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a device for performing an emergency tracheostomy includes a dilator having a...
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8007435 |
Tissue retraction device
A self-retaining retractor is described. The retractor can be sized for small patients, such as young children or infants or some animals. The retractor has two blades that are capable of holding...
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7975696 |
Voice prosthesis dilator/sizer
A voice prosthesis dilator and sizer device is provided including an elongated member having a first end with a tip and a flange and a second end with a stop portion. The elongated member includes...
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7771396 |
Intubation device for enteral feeding
An intubation device is provided for use with a guide apparatus having a track that is adapted to be associated with an endoscope such that bending of the track is substantially decoupled from...
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7681576 |
Multiple cannula systems and methods
The preferred embodiments provide, e.g., a high quality flexible tracheostomy tube assembly including an outer tracheostomy cannula and a disposable, flexible inner cannula. In preferred...
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7631642 |
Tracheostoma spacer, tracheotomy method, and device for inserting a tracheostoma spacer
The invention relates to a tracheostoma spacer with a tubular support framework. The support framework can be expand from an initial state to a supporting state of increased diameter and has a...
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7552732 |
Adult percutaneous emergency tracheotomy kit
A compact tool that easily fits into the pocket of an emergency responder, such as an emergency room technician, EMT or military medic, for emergency adult percutaneous tracheotomies that contains...
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7513256 |
Intra-airway ventilation
A tube (30) for inducing gases into critically ill patients, in which the distal end (20) is perforated, and covered with an inflatable-deflatable sleeve (36). Gas is pumped into the proximal end...
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7373939 |
Tracheotomy procedure with integrated tool
An integrated tool may be used to perform a tracheotomy. The integrated tool may include a trocar and a delivery mechanism, where the delivery mechanism may deploy a stoma stent. The trocar may be...
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7341061 |
Tracheostomy system
A tracheostomy system includes an outer multi-layered tube, which can be expanded or allowed to contract as necessary in order to receive various sizes of cannula tubes. A dilator is used to...
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7328702 |
Tracheostomy device
A tracheostomy device has a short tube terminating adjacent the internal end of an opening into the trachea. A flange secures the external end of the tube and a retainer secures the internal end of...
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7308896 |
Combination tracheal hook and scalpel device
A portable combination tracheal hook and scalpel device is provided for use in creating an emergency surgical airway in a patient. The device includes a handle and a scalpel portion attached to one...
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7305989 |
Medico-surgical instruments
An instrument for providing ventilation access to the trachea has a hollow needle with a sharp tip, a tube extending within the needle and a spring urging the tube to project a short distance from...
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RE39923 |
Flanged cylindrical implant and method of insertion
A device for insertion into a puncture in a tracheoesophageal wall includes a cylindrical body and a flexible first flange provided on an outside surface of the body. The flange has a use...
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7267124 |
Emergency tracheostomy kit
A kit that facilitates performance of a tracheostomy in emergency situations remote from an operating room. The kit includes a template guide for placement on a person on which the tracheostomy is...
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7169129 |
Apparatus and method for performing a tracheotomy
Apparatus and methods provide for a tracheotomy to be performed on a patient. The apparatus includes an applicator base with an aperture placed over the trachea. A firing mechanism is triggered by...
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7156090 |
Tracheostomy tube
A tracheostomy tube that enables speech. The tube is provided with an inside tube portion to be set in a trachea, an outside tube portion connected to a ventilator, and a balloon provided on the...
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7140369 |
Tracheotomy endotracheal tube
A flexible tracheotomy endotracheal tube comprises a short distal section of tubing, an intermediate section of tubing, a pre-formed obtuse-angle bend in the tube between the distal and...
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7093598 |
Applicator for trach drain sponge
The invention relates to a device and a method of use that will allow a medical professional to change a patient's Tracheostomy dressing in an efficient manner that will cut down both the...
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7036510 |
Percutaneous tracheostomy balloon apparatus
An apparatus and method for performing a percutaneous tracheostomy procedure utilizing dilatation means that do not require entry into the trachea by downward pressure, in order to minimize the...
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7021314 |
Stoma stent with integrated speech flap valve
A stoma stent with an internal, self-contained flap valve permitting speech. The one-way flap valve is part of the stent.
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7011094 |
Bronchial flow control devices and methods of use
A flow control device includes a sealing component that can be positioned within a bronchial lumen. The sealing component can comprise two or more overlapping segments that are movable relative to...
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6971382 |
Trachea tube method and device
Method and apparatus for a trachea tube 12 having an interiorly positioned retaining member 14 and a flange 16 forming an exteriorly positioned retaining member. The trachea tube 12 has means 14,...
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6915804 |
Tracheotomy surgical device
Disclosed herein is a novel surgical instrument, and method of using same, designed for performing tracheotomy. According to specific embodiments, the subject surgical instrument comprises a novel...
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6742519 |
Medico-surgical apparatus
A percutaneous tracheostomy assembly has a hollow needle carrying a cannula with a hub at its rear end abutting a hub on the needle. A channel-shape stop is clipped onto the cannula and needle so...
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6706017 |
Percutaneous ostomy device and method for creating a stoma and implanting a canula
An ostomy device and method for creating a stoma and implanting a canula. The ostomy device includes an elongate needle having a sharpened tip for percutaneous entry of a body forming a stoma. The...
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6698426 |
Face and tracheostomy neubulizing mask
A double-body therapeutics face and tracheostomy mask which functions as both a mask for the nose and mouth of a patient and a mask for the tracheostomy tube area of a patient is disclosed. The...
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6637435 |
Percutaneous dilational device
A dilator (10) for creating tracheostomies in one pass. Dilator (10) includes a generally linear shaft (12) extending from a proximal end (14) and beginning at a distance therefrom, gradually and...
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6612305 |
Integral balloon tracheostomy tube
The present invention relates to a tracheostomy device with an inflatable balloon (1) attached to a hollow tube (2) by means of two areas of adhesion (1a and 1b) whose ortogonal projections are not...
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6602219 |
Turbulent air cleaning method and apparatus for catheter assemblies
A method and apparatus are provided for cleaning a medical device tube, for example a catheter tube. The distal end portion of the tube has a distal opening and at least one side opening adjacent...
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6575158 |
Endotracheal tube guide and related tracheostomy surgical procedure
An ET guide is provided which is preferably made of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), also known as Teflon®. The distal end is of a reduced profile so that the guide can be left in place, with the ...
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6382209 |
Apparatus and method enabling location of trachea breathing tube in body viscus
An apparatus and method employing a syringe mounted splittable needle insertable through body tissue to provide a percutaneous passage through the body tissue and into a cavity such as a trachea....
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6330882 |
Emergency apparatus for evacuating air from the body cavity
An apparatus for evacuating air from the body cavity of the patient during a collapsed lung condition which includes, an air delivery tube portion which is inserted through the skin and into the...
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6298851 |
Emergency tracheotomy apparatus
An apparatus for performing emergency tracheotomies having a first cylinder having a distal end in a substantially cone shape and a threaded proximal end. An internal hollow cylinder has a distal...
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6269813 |
Tracheal gas insufflation bypass and phasic delivery system and method
Tracheal gas insufflation (TGI) therapy is performed by a bypass valve and a controller which control a flow of TGI gas to a TGI catheter inserted into an endotracheal tube in the tracheal of a...
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6203502 |
Respiratory function monitor
A respiratory function monitoring device comprising a flow sensor and a conversion device is herein disclosed. Also disclosed are structures for carrying out an auto-zero calibration, a purging...
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6135110 |
Tracheostomy tube
To ensure that the inner cannula is mated to the outer cannula of a tracheostomy tube, a pressure adjusting device is provided to the collar of the inner cannula so as to apply a biasing force...
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6109264 |
Apparatus for expanding body tissue
A surgical apparatus for manipulating body tissue including a hollow needle, a bulb connected to the needle for aspirating air through an end of the needle, a flexible guide wire extending through...
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6105573 |
Hook and pile retention system for anti-disconnect apparatus and method, for breathing systems
A method of connecting flexible first band structure to a tracheostomy neck plate, the neck plate having a first wing projecting laterally, the method including providing first anchoring structure...
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RE36611 |
Emergency tracheostomy apparatus
An apparatus for performing emergency tracheostomies, by inserting the apparatus into the trachea of a patient, the apparatus including an air delivery tube, having a body portion, a first upper...
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5996582 |
Tracheal assemblies
A tracheal assembly comprises an endotracheal tube and a tracheal shield. The tracheal shield has a stiff rod extending along the endotracheal tube, and a stop at the machine end of the shield...
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5988168 |
Method and apparatus for establishing a surgical airway
An apparatus and method for performing emergency cricothyrotomy on a patient. The apparatus includes a pair of handles with an arcuate tip connected to the distal end of each handle with both sets...
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5967143 |
Surgical instrument for emergency medicine
The invention relates to a surgical instrument, especially for emergency medicine, in particular a so-called coniotomy device with which access to the lung is created for supplying air to the lung...
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5666950 |
Filter device for a tracheostoma
A device for filtering air that is to be breathed through a tracheostoma, to simulate the role of the nose particularly in patients who have received a tracheostomy comprises a filter (20). The...
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5558081 |
Surgical method for inserting a transtracheal catheter
A surgical procedure for creating a saucerized tract for insertion of a transtracheal catheter allows early institution of transtracheal oxygen therapy, facilitates rapid tract maturation, and...
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5515844 |
Method and apparatus for weaning ventilator-dependent patients
A method and apparatus for weaning a ventilator-dependent patient employs a transtracheal catheter that is inserted through the patient's tracheostomy tube to continuously augment the flow of...
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5507279 |
Retrograde endotracheal intubation kit
A kit for performing a retrograde endotracheal intubation procedure including a tracheal puncture device for puncturing the trachea of a patient, and for facilitating the subsequent passage of an...
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5460176 |
Positive locking cannula
A positive locking device for connecting an inner cannula within an outer cannula to form a tracheostomy tube device. The tracheostomy device is provided with a connector head or connector body...
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