Oral circumferential respiratory monitoring device
AssigneeSedateUK Ltd
InventorsAlain Jaccard, Andreia Trigo, Martin Lees, Craig Cook, Philippe Margairaz
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Abstract
A device is provided that enables the continuous and unobstructed sampling of CO2 expired by a patient and administration of O2 to said patient while at the same time allowing surgery or instrumentation or access of the oral cavity and related areas of said patient to proceed unobstructed.
Claims16
An oral circumferential holding device adapted to hold the oral cavity of a patient open so as to allow breathing by the patient through the oral cavity and/or through the patient's nostril or nostrils while at the same time allowing surgery or instrumentation of the oral cavity and related areas of said patient to proceed unobstructed, the holding device including:
- an expandable internal flange and an expandable external flange, the external flange having an outer edge, the outer edge including an edge portion adapted to be placed adjacent the nostrils of a patient, and
- sampling tubing, for collecting air exhaled by the nose and/or by the mouth of the patient, said sampling tubing connectable to a capnography machine to enable the uninterrupted and unobstructed sampling of CO2 expired by said patient.
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