Oxygen dispensing laryngoscope sleeve
AssigneeSharpMed, LLC.
InventorChris Salvino
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Abstract
Disclosed is a laryngoscope arrangement that channels gas, such as oxygen, through a passageway and out through an exhaust port near or at a blade distal end of a laryngoscope blade of the laryngoscope to infuse a patient with the gas during an intubation procedure. The laryngoscope arrangement can either be a gas channeling laryngoscope or gas channeling sleeve that fits over a significant portion of a standard, non-gas carrying laryngoscope. In either case, the passageway is formed along a manufacturing seam of either the gas channeling laryngoscope or gas channeling sleeve. The passageway is configured to be connected to a gas source, such as a tank or compressor.
Claims19
A laryngoscope sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve handle that extends between a laryngoscope receiving aperture and a sleeve blade, wherein the laryngoscope sleeve comprises a sleeve seam where a left side of the laryngoscope sleeve is bonded to a right side of the laryngoscope sleeve;
- a front seam located along a blade front facing portion of the sleeve blade and a handle front facing portion of the sleeve handle, the blade front facing portion is in view of the handle front facing portion;
- the front seam comprising a casing that defines a gas carrying passageway, wherein the left side comprises a first portion of the casing and the right side comprises a second portion of the casing;
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- the gas carrying passageway extending from an entry port located at the laryngoscope receiving aperture to an exhaust port located at the sleeve blade.
A gas dispensing laryngoscope sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve handle extending between a laryngoscope receiving aperture and a sleeve blade,
- the gas dispensing laryngoscope sleeve defining a left side and a right side bonded together at a seam;
- the gas dispensing laryngoscope sleeve defining a blade front facing portion of the sleeve blade and a handle front facing portion of the sleeve handle, wherein the blade front facing portion is in view of the handle front facing portion;
- a gas carrying passageway extending outside of the gas dispensing laryngoscope sleeve along the seam at the handle front facing portion and the blade front facing portion;
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- the gas carrying passageway extending from an entry port to an exhaust port located at the blade,
- the entry port is located at a free end of a gas connecting tube,
- the entry port located approximately at the laryngoscope receiving aperture.
A laryngoscope sleeve that channels gas, the laryngoscope sleeve comprising:
- a sleeve handle extending between a laryngoscope receiving aperture and a sleeve blade, the laryngoscope sleeve defining a blade front facing portion of the sleeve blade and a handle front facing portion of the sleeve handle, wherein the blade front facing portion is in view of the handle front facing portion;
- the laryngoscope sleeve defining a left side and a right side that at least in part meet along a centerline at the handle front facing portion and the blade front facing portion;
- a gas carrying passageway extending along the centerline at the handle front facing portion and the blade front facing portion;
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- the gas carrying passageway extending from an entry port, located at a distal end of a gas connecting tube, to an exhaust port located at the sleeve blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.