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7615674 Battlefield chest dressing  
Embodiments of a chest dressing assembly having a rigid body defining an inner chamber accessible by an opening for placement over a chest wound and one or more protected check valves on the rigid...
7615033 Flashback blood collection needle  
A needle assembly includes a transparent or translucent housing with a fluid inlet end, a fluid outlet end, a flashback chamber and a venting mechanism therebetween. Substantially axially aligned...
7604618 High pressure injection syringe  
A pressure injection syringe with an actuator that includes a plunger for pressurizing viscous fluid material within a chamber. The plunger distal tip includes a high pressure seal defined by a...
7604615 Surgical cassette with bubble separating structure  
A surgical cassette having an aspiration chamber with a bubble separating structure. The bubble separating structure facilitates accurate, reliable measurement of the fluid level in the chamber.
7563248 Infusion fluid heat exchanger and cartridge  
The present invention relates to a system for increasing the temperature of a fluid being infused into a patient's body while the infusion is taking place. The present invention also provides for...
7547295 Gas removal in an intravenous fluid delivery system  
An active gas removal system is provided to remove air or gas bubbles from an intravenous fluid prior to infusion into the patient. The system detects the level of liquid in a drip chamber and...
7534225 Degassing method and system  
A system and method for degassing a fluid in a syringe comprising and inserting the fluid into a negative pressure device. The system may include a holder for holding the syringe; a guide affixed...
7530967 Porous multiple sample sleeve and blood drawing device for flash detection  
A device for drawing fluid from a lumen, and particularly blood from a blood vessel, is disclosed. The device may provide indication of the entry of an intravenous cannula into the lumen. The...
7517387 Gas separation devices  
A description is given of a gas separation device for a physiological fluid, comprising a containing body ( 6 ) having at least a first inlet aperture ( 7 ) for a physiological fluid, positioned...
7504549 Chest wound seal for preventing pneumothorax and including means for relieving a tension pheumothorax  
A flexible sheet having an adhesive layer carried on a bottom side. A collection chamber formed in the adhesive layer by the exclusion of adhesive from a central area of the sheet for receiving...
7503905 Venting syringe plunger  
A venting syringe plunger assembly for use with a syringe system allows for venting of gas from the syringe system during use. The plunger assembly includes a hollow outer sleeve having an interior...
7429687 Medical dressing for open chest wounds  
An adhesively attachable bandage for an open wound. A one-way valve permits air or other fluids to move through the bandage in one direction, as to escape from a body cavity, but prevents fluids...
7361164 Multi-outlet medical dispensing device  
A medical delivery device comprising an elongate body having a plunger slidably and sealingly engaged to form a cavity to receive fluid materials and a first outlet disposed at an end of said body...
7338470 Air-bubble-monitoring medication assembly, medical system and method  
An air-bubble-monitoring medication assembly includes a drug infusion subassembly having a tube for administering therein a liquid to a patient, a bubble-size determinator which is positioned to...
7311693 Drug delivery device and method  
A drug delivery device includes a pressurized reservoir in communication with a flow path to an outlet. The flow path includes two normally-closed valves and a flow restriction. A pressure...
7226432 Blood drawing device  
A device for drawing fluid from a lumen, and particularly blood from a blood vessel, is disclosed. The device may provide indication of the entry of an intravenous cannula into the lumen. The...
7160267 Blood drawing device with flash detection  
A device for drawing fluid from a lumen, and particularly blood from a blood vessel, is disclosed. The device may provide indication of the entry of an intravenous cannula into the lumen. The...
7141037 Apparatus and method for air-in-line detection  
The concentration of air in a fluid delivery line is determined by monitoring output signals corresponding to the amount of air detected in the fluid and processing those signals along with...
7097690 Apparatus and method for removing gasses from a liquid  
Medical devices for removing gasses, such as gas bubbles and/or dissolved gasses, from a liquid to be delivered to a patient, and methods of use and making of such devices. In at least some...
7048721 Needleless syringe  
A needleless syringe that provides the necessary high pressure, is easily generated despite the utilization of relatively thin-walled glass ampules for storing an injectable medicine. A plastic...
6972000 Manual/auto-prime air eliminator  
A vent system for an infusion drip chamber is provided according to the invention. The vent system includes an automatic air eliminator communicating with an interior and an exterior of the...
6916308 High pressure injection syringe  
A pressure injection syringe ( 10 ) with an actuator ( 100 ) that includes a plunger ( 102 ) for pressurizing viscous fluid material within a chamber ( 14 ). The plunger distal tip ( 112 ) includes...
6875194 Reduction or elimination of the introduction of air within fluid introduced into a surgical field  
Air bubbles can be reduced or eliminated from the infusion source used during surgical procedures which require the delivery of irrigating fluid to the operating field. This is particularly a...
6868720 Testing of pressure sensor in surgical cassette  
A method of determining the accuracy of a pressure sensor in a surgical cassette is disclosed. The method involves displacing a diaphragm of the sensor a pre-defined amount of displacement, and...
6641558 Method and apparatus for preventing air embolisms  
Method and apparatus for preventing air embolisms during surgical procedures which involves providing a fluid source in communication with an aperture extending into an anatomical cavity such that...
6529751 Optical detection and quantification of microair in blood  
Both the number and the size of microair bubbles in a bloodstream are accurately determined optically, independently of oxygen saturation, by monitoring the intensity of light transmission in the...
6511459 Syringe plunger having an improved sealing ability  
A plunger is provided for a syringe that includes a pressure relief mechanism that exhausts any fluid trapped in the chamber between sealing flanges carried by the plunger when the plunger is...
6511457 Airless syringe  
A syringe having an air release assembly slidingly clamped to a syringe barrel, the air release assembly having a lower portion with a slider valve insert and an upper portion with a rearward...
6440101 Syringe systems for lyophilized drugs and methods for making the same  
A syringe system requires a decreased vertical travel for sealing during a lyophilization process and therefore provides for increased utilization of space in a lyophilization chamber. The syringe...
6270478 Infusion pump system and an infusion pump unit  
An infusion pump system comprises one or more infusion pump units and a stationary receptor system. Each unit comprises a housing of a size allowing the unit to be carried by a user as a portable...
6235002 Syringe for use in fluid-handling apparatus  
An improved displacement-type syringe has a housing, a substantially fixed seal, a solid or closed-tip plunger, an internal passageway formed between the housing and the plunger, and at least two...
6193689 Intravenous liquid flow regulator  
An I.V. bag is connected to a drip chamber, then to a conventional tube clamp and a regulating tube containing a wick or other material that breaks surface tension of the liquid in the tube, which...
6171484 Bubble trap having inlet/outlet tube and docking port  
A flow through bubble trap for fluid flow lines comprises a chamber-defining wall and a flow inlet/outlet tube at least substantially extending through the chamber and open at opposed tube ends to...
6142008 Air bubble sensor  
A system and a method for detecting the presence of air bubbles in an intravenous (IV) line supplying a medicinal liquid to a patient. An air bubble sensor includes an ultrasonic transmitter...
6117342 Bubble trap with directed horizontal flow and method of using  
An extracorporeal, flow-through bubble trap for blood lines having improved capabilities at high flow rates and with smaller bubbles. The bubble trap comprises a chamber-defining wall, plus a blood...
6106504 Drip chamber for medical fluid delivery system  
A drip chamber for a medical fluid delivery system includes a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, and defining a chamber between the inlet and outlet ports, the housing configured to...
6106497 System and method for preventing an air embolism in a surgical procedure  
A system and method is provided for preventing the development of an air embolism in an animal during and after a cardiovascular surgical procedure. Also provided is a device that can accurately...
6068612 Air detector  
The present invention provides an apparatus for detecting excessive air in a liquid flow-through tube. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmitter for transmitting ultrasonic signals and an...
6051134 Bubble trap having common inlet/outlet tube  
A flow through bubble trap comprises a chamber-defining wall having a flow inlet/outlet tube extending through the chamber and open at opposed tube ends. The tube has its bore closed with a...
6010623 Bubble trap with flat side  
A flow through bubble trap for fluid flow lines comprises a chamber having a substantially flat, lateral side, a first port tube, and a second, opposed port tube. A flow directing baffle system is...
5989438 Active blood filter and method for active blood filtration  
A blood filter is disclosed which actively removes unwanted particles from the blood without using passive elements such as a cartridge. The blood filter includes a housing having a blood inlet...
5980741 Bubble trap with flat side having multipurpose supplemental ports  
A flow through bubble trap for fluid flow lines comprises a chamber having a substantially flat, lateral side, a first port tube, and a second, opposed port tube. A flow directing baffle system is...
5865803 Syringe device having a vented piston  
A syringe assembly specifically designed to dispense high viscosity material. The syringe assembly includes a syringe barrel into which the high viscosity material is placed. A piston assembly is...
5843035 Air detector for intravenous infusion system  
The present invention provides an apparatus for detecting excessive air in a liquid flow-through tube. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmitter for transmitting ultrasonic signals and an...
5830185 Position-independent fluid trap  
A position-independent fluid trap for separating at least a portion of a first fluid of a first density entrained within a flow stream of a second fluid of a second density flowing through a fluid...
5824001 Radially vented flashback chamber and plug assembly  
A radially vented flashback chamber and plug assembly includes a plug seated in the proximal end of a flashback chamber. In one embodiment of this invention, the flashback chamber has an open...
5814025 Self-venting fluid system  
A system and method is provided which substantially eliminates the effect of air entrapped in tubing for delivering a liquid from a container. The inner diameter of the tubing is selected such that...
5814012 Method and apparatus for relieving excess insufflation pressure  
A method and apparatus for relieving insufflation pressure in a body cavity (18) in excess of a predetermined value are provided. A conduit assembly (24) extends from the body cavity (18) through...
5800721 Combined cardiotomy fluid and venous blood reservoir  
A combined cardiotomy and venous blood reservoir according to a preferred embodiment of the invention provides a separate in-flow path for both cardiotomy fluid and for venous blood, and includes a...
5779674 Fluid gas removal drip chamber  
A fluid gas removal drip chamber for use for parenteral administration of fluids is disclosed. The drip chamber has a hydrophobic barrier which extends into the interior of the drip chamber. The...
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