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US 8,006,697 B2Granted
Respiratory probe
OwnerGeorges Boussignacinventor
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Abstract
The invention concerns a respiratory tube (2) enclosed, at least over the major part of its length, in an inflatable flexible protective sheath (6) for isolating, from said flexible tube, the mucous membranes of the patient's airways. Further, the protective sheath (6) enables a patient to be ventilated with a breathing mixture.
Claims5
A respiratory probe comprising
- at least one incompressible flexible tube, configured to be introduced by the oral or nasal route into the trachea of a patient;
- at least one inflatable flexible protective sheath for isolating said flexible tube from the mucous membranes of the patient's airways, wherein said at least one inflatable flexible protective sheath surrounds said tube at least over the greater part of its length;
- at least one through-passage formed in said incompressible flexible tube from a distal end of the probe and inside said protective sheath;
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- a conduit arranged in fluid communication with said protective sheath such that respiratory gas supplied to said conduit passes to said protective sheath for inflating the protective sheath and passes through the at least one through-passage into the trachea of said patient.
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