Covidien LP

James P Curley

Kieran M Donlon

Seamus P Maguire

Declan Kiernan

Alan Finneran

Kamlesh Sethiya

James Stephenson

Mark A McGann

Emmet Bolger

Graham B Fleming

Brian Ledwith

Conor Hand

Sean Morris

Ronald Thiessen

Richard Kauc

Daniel P Waters

Ronan J Hanamy

Noel Morgan

Rosemary Cahill

Anne M Savage

Paul J Gallogly

Izabela A Ksienzyk

Erin F McLaughlin

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

A tracheal tube assembly includes an outer cannula configured to be positioned in a patient airway and an inner cannula configured to be disposed inside the outer cannula. The tracheal tube assembly further includes a flange member secured about the outer cannula, and an outer cannula connector coupled to a proximal end of the outer cannula. The inner cannula includes a proximal end region with features that facilitate insertion and/or removal.

Tracheostomy tube with inner cannula

The present disclosure describes systems and methods that utilize a tracheal tube adaptor system. The tracheal tube adaptor system includes a tracheal tube adaptor and/or a flaring jig. A proximal end of a tracheal tube may be flared and the tracheal tube adaptor may be coupled to the proximal end of the tracheal tube. The tracheal tube adaptor may be configured to easily attach and detach an end connector. The end connector may be used to couple a variety of medical devices such as a ventilator, a manual respirator, a nebulizer, a vaporizer, suctioning equipment, and so forth, to the tracheal tube. The use of the tracheal tube adaptor system and methods enables the rapid detachment and attachment of various end connectors, thus allowing the coupling of the tracheal tube to a variety of medical devices.

Tracheal tube adaptor and flaring jig

According to various embodiments, a tracheal tube ventilating device includes a sealing portion near a distal end of the tube. The sealing portion has an electroactive polymer configured to undergo a clinically effective change in volume, thickness, or both upon application of an electrical potential. Such a change in volume, thickness, or both enables sealing of the device against an inner surface of a trachea while permitting the free passage of ventilating gas through the tube. In addition, at least one electrical conductor is coupled to the electroactive polymer and is configured to apply the electrical potential.

Cuffless tracheal tube

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