Charged hydrator
AssigneeLexion Medical, LLC
InventorsDouglas E. Ott, Robert I. Gray, Duane Lloyd
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Abstract
A charged hydration device and a method of filling the hydration device so the charged hydration that can be mounted to a medical apparatus that provides insufflation fluid to a body cavity either immediately prior to the medical procedure or during a medical procedure with the charged hydration device including an inlet and outlet for an inline connection with the medical apparatus so that an insufflation gas delivered through the charged hydration device is hydrated to prevent tissue damage to a person receiving the insufflation gas.
Claims10
-10. (canceled)
The method of insufflating a body cavity with an insufflating gas comprising the steps of;
- connecting an insufflator to a hydrator, the hydrator comprising a hydration liquid and having an inlet, an outlet, a first closure member preventing discharge of substantially all of the hydration liquid from the inlet prior to the hydration device being attached to another apparatus, and a second closure member preventing discharge of substantially all of the hydration liquid from the outlet prior to the hydration device being attached to another apparatus;
- connecting the hydrator to a trocar to deliver gas into a body cavity;
- and
- delivering gas to the body cavity from the insufflator through the hydration device which humidifies the gas prior to providing gas to the trocar.
-24. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.