Surgery – Instruments – Means for removing foreign objects from the throat or...
Patent
1996-03-11
1998-01-20
Yu, Mickey
Surgery
Instruments
Means for removing foreign objects from the throat or...
606196, 12820714, 12820715, A61D 0112
Patent
active
057096910
ABSTRACT:
An endotracheal tube cleaning device to be used in an endotracheal tube of the type that has a flow through passage with an interior wall surface that defines an interior diameter thereof. The endotracheal tube cleaning device includes an elongate tubular member with a length at least as long as the endotracheal tube and a diameter smaller than a corresponding diameter of the endotracheal tube. Defined within the elongate tubular member, and extending from generally a first end to a second end thereof, is a channel. The channel terminates in an outlet port connected in fluid flow communication with a resilient material bladder that is structure to inflate to a diameter sufficient to engage the interior wall surface of the endotracheal tube. Moreover, the resilient material bladder is covered with an expandable exterior sheath that completely contains the resilient material bladder in case of rupture and provides an exterior, generally abrasive surface that engages and thereby cleans the interior wall surface of the endotracheal tube when the resilient material bladder is inflated and the elongate tubular member is removed from an inserted orientation within the endotracheal tube.
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Yu Justine R.
Yu Mickey
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