Patent · US Expired

Portable emergency respiratory system

US4385629A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 12, 1981
Grant dateMay 31, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 12, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S128/912
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Utilization of a standard, portable oxygen tank and regulator in an emergency respiratory system including an endotracheal adaptor in fluid communication with the regulator and having a first, flexible tube insertable in the windpipe of a patient undergoing emergency treatment, and a second flexible, manually-operable tube attached to the adaptor in opposed relation to the first tube and compressible to direct the oxygen flowing between the regulator and adaptor into the patient's lungs by way of the first tube.

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