Retrograde endotracheal intubation kit
OwnerJohn B. Fortune, W. Brooks Fortuneinventors
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Abstract
A kit for performing a retrograde endotracheal intubation procedure including a tracheal puncture device for puncturing the trachea of a patient, and for facilitating the subsequent passage of an attached guide-wire into and through the trachea, and an endotracheal tube, having a modified beveled end portion including a supplementary guide hole adapted to receive the guide-wire, for expediting the passage of the endotracheal tube through the anatomical structures of the larynx.
Claims10
A retrograde endotracheal intubation kit comprising:
- an elongate endotracheal tube having a length sufficient to extend from a patient's mouth into a trachea;
- a tracheal puncture device having a hollow needle for providing external tracheal access;
- a length of guide-wire having a first end, a second end, and a length sufficient to extend said first end through said hollow needle of said tracheal puncture device and said endotracheal tube;
- a wire carrier for said guide-wire;
- a clamp for securing said first end of said guide-wire to said endotracheal tube;
- antiseptic;
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- a hook member for ensnaring said guide-wire.
The retrograde endotracheal intubation kit in accordance with claim 6 wherein the wire carrier for said guide-wire is fixedly coupled to said aspirating syringe.
A retrograde endotracheal intubation kit comprising:
- an endotracheal tube;
- a tracheal puncture device for providing external tracheal access;
- a length of guide-wire for insertion through said tracheal puncture device and said endotracheal tube;
- a wire carrier for said guide-wire;
- a clamp for securing said guide-wire to said endotracheal tube;
- antiseptic;
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- a hook member for ensnaring said guide-wire, wherein said tracheal puncture device includes;
- a hollow needle having a distal needle point, said hollow needle enclosing a movable, hollow stem having a longitudinally extending inner channel therein and an apertured, substantially blunt end section which is adapted to movably protrude beyond said distal needle point;
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- a mechanism for securing the blunt end section of said movable, hollow stem beyond said distal needle point.
A retrograde endotracheal intubation kit comprising:
- an endotracheal tube, said endotracheal tube including an end portion having at least two openings, said end portion including a first beveled opening for the passage of gas, and a tapered, substantially conical projection, disposed adjacent and beneath said first beveled opening and having a second opening therein, for receiving a guide-wire therethrough during a retrograde endotracheal intubation procedure;
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- a tracheal puncture device for providing external tracheal access during said retrograde endotracheal intubation procedure, said tracheal puncture device including a hollow needle having a distal needle point, said hollow needle enclosing a movable, hollow stem having a longitudinally extending inner channel therein and an apertured, substantially blunt end section which is adapted to movably protrude beyond said distal needle point, said tracheal puncture device further including a mechanism for securing the blunt end section of said movable, hollow stem beyond said distal needle point.
A retrograde endotracheal intubation kit comprising:
- an endotracheal tube, said endotracheal tube including an end portion having at least two openings, said end portion including a first beveled opening for the passage of gas, and a tapered, substantially conical projection, disposed adjacent and beneath said first beveled opening and having a second opening therein, for receiving a guide-wire therethrough during a retrograde endotracheal intubation procedure;
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- a tracheal puncture device for providing external tracheal access during said retrograde endotracheal intubation procedure, said tracheal puncture device including a hollow needle having a distal needle point, said hollow needle enclosing a movable, hollow stem having a longitudinally extending inner channel therein and an apertured, substantially blunt end section which is adapted to movably protrude beyond said distal needle point, said tracheal puncture device further including a mechanism for securing the blunt end section of said movable, hollow stem beyond said distal needle point, wherein said securing mechanism includes a first catch element which is adapted to engage a second, complementary catch element on the movable, hollow stem of said hollow needle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.