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US 2014/0276179 A1Published application
Endoscopic bite block
AssigneeOridion Medical 1987 Ltd.
InventorsJoshua Lewis Colman, Gershon Levitsky, Ron Porat
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Abstract
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention there is provided a bite block assembly adapted for capnography and oxygen delivery to a subject, the bite block assembly (50) including a first capnography passageway adapted for passage therethrough of exhaled breath from the subject to a capnograph and a second oxygen delivery passageway, separate from the first passageway, adapted for passage therethrough of oxygen from an oxygen source to the mouth of the subject.
Claims15
1-28. (canceled)
A detachably connectable bite block comprising:
- a first hollow tubular portion configured for insertion into a subject's mouth, said first hollow tubular portion comprising, on an outer portion thereof, a second tubular portion configured to engage an oxygen supply tube and thereby to detachably connect said bite block with an oral-nasal cannula, such that when said oxygen supply tube is connected to said second tubular portion a valve is configured to open, and when said oxygen supply tube is disconnected from said second tubular portion the valve is configured to close;
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- a main body portion from which said first hollow tubular portion extends, said main body portion comprising a longitudinal groove configured to detachably accommodate an oral prong of said oral-nasal cannula, such that oral breath exhaled through said first hollow tubular portion is directed towards said groove for collection by said oral prong.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.