Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1993-11-16
1994-10-04
Yasko, John D.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604122, 128DIG13, 7386152, A61M 500
Patent
active
053522133
ABSTRACT:
An IV flow monitor is connected to a conventional IV bag via a self-contained puncture tube, and includes a liquid reservoir at the top, which allows the liquid to transfer through a transfer tube and then through a calibrated orifice tube into an orifice chamber, from which the liquid falls through an exit tube connected to a patient or other IV equipment. A manometer tube is connected between the liquid reservoir and the orifice chamber and is aligned with a measurement scale fixed to a backing plate upon which the apparatus is mounted. The pressure drop across the calibrated orifice tube produces a standing column of liquid in the manometer tube and principles of fluid flow allow the rate of flow through the apparatus to be read from the scale. An air trap chamber in an upper portion of the orifice chamber and hydrophobic gas membranes provide safety features that prevent air from being entrained in the liquid flowing through the exit tube to the patient.
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Gutowski Anthony
Iles Kenneth W.
Yasko John D.
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