Postoperative chest drainage device
AssigneeRedax S.P.A.
InventorLucio GIBERTONI
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Abstract
A postoperative chest drainage device for draining fluids that originate from the chest of a patient and which has liquids and/or gases, the device includes: a bag for collecting the liquids and an input connector adapted to be connected to a drainage duct for the passage of the fluids that originate from the chest toward the bag, and an air-liquid separation device which is arranged outside of the bag, between the input connector and the bag, and is configured to allow the passage of the gases, when they are present in such fluids, toward the environment outside the bag and to direct the liquids, when present in the fluids, toward the bag
Claims12
1-11. (canceled)
A postoperative chest drainage device for draining fluids that originate from the chest of a patient and which comprise liquids and/or gases, comprising:
- a bag for collecting the liquids;
- an input connector, adapted to be connected to a drainage duct for the passage of said fluids that originate from the chest toward the bag;
- and further comprising an air-liquid separation device arranged outside of said bag, between the input connector and the bag, and configured to:
- allow the passage of the gases, when the gases are present in said fluids, toward the environment outside the bag, and
- direct the liquids, when present in said fluids, toward the bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.