Patient Delivery Tube for Humidified Oxygen
AssigneeC.R. Bard, Inc.
InventorRonny Bracken
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Abstract
A patient delivery tube for the delivery of a heated, humidified gas. The patient delivery tube includes an elongated tubing member molded from a flexible polymer, said elongated tubing member comprising a first end, a second end and an axially aligned passageway extending therethrough and an electric heater comprising a conductive material, said electric heater arranged along said axially aligned passageway for perimetrically heating said axially aligned passageway. A method of delivering a heated, humidified gas to a patient is also provided.
Claims30
A patient delivery tube for the delivery of a heated, humidified gas, comprising:
- (a) an elongated tubing member molded from a flexible polymer, said elongated tubing member comprising a first end, a second end and at least one axially aligned passageway extending therethrough;
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- (b) an electric heater comprising a conductive material, said electric heater arranged along said axially aligned passageway for perimetrically heating said axially aligned passageway.
A method of delivering a heated, humidified gas to a patient comprising:
- (a) placing a patient delivery tube in communication with an airway of a patient;
- the patient delivery tube comprising an elongated tubing member molded from a flexible polymer, the elongated tubing member comprising a first end, a second end and at least one axially aligned passageway extending therethrough;
- and an electric heater comprising a conductive material, the electric heater arranged along the axially aligned passageway for perimetrically heating the axially aligned passageway;
- (b) delivering a heated, humidified gas to the patient delivery tube
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.