Covidien LP

Graham B Fleming

Seamus P Maguire

James P Curley

Kieran M Donlon

Mark A McGann

Conor Hand

Richard Kauc

Sean Morris

Ronald Thiessen

Erin F McLaughlin

Daniel P Waters

Paul J Gallogly

Ronan J Hanamy

Noel Morgan

Rosemary Cahill

Anne M Savage

Izabela A Ksienzyk

A position monitoring system is provided that includes a tracheal tube having a distal portion with a radiopaque indicator. The tracheal tube is configured to be positioned within an airway of a patient. The position monitoring system also includes an external sensor configured to be positioned on an external surface of the patient. The external sensor includes an emitter configured to transmit energy into the patient and toward the distal portion and a detector configured to receive a reflected portion of the energy to permit identification of a position of the distal portion. The position monitoring system, in certain embodiments, further includes a video laryngoscope communicatively coupled to the external sensor. The video laryngoscope includes a display and a processor, and the processor is configured to instruct the display to present an indication of the position of the distal portion based on feedback from the detector.

Tube position monitoring system

A method of method of high flow oxygen therapy (HFOT) and carbon dioxide (CO) monitoring includes delivering high flow oxygen therapy (HFOT) via a central lumen of a nasal cannula, the nasal cannula comprising a proximal end, a distal end positioned within a pharynx region of a patient's airway, and the central lumen and a sampling lumen formed within a wall of the nasal cannula. The method also includes receiving sampled exhaled breath of the patient via the sampling lumen at a COmonitor, wherein the sampling lumen is configured to sample the exhaled breath at the pharynx region through the CO2-permeable membrane and direct the sampled exhaled breath to a COmonitor fluidly coupled to the sampling lumen and determining a level of COin the exhaled breath using the COmonitor.

System and method for high flow oxygen therapy

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Athlone, Ireland

Graham B Fleming