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Patent No.:

US 10661039 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2015

Self-deployed cuff and skirt tracheal tube

Applicants:

Texas Tech University System, Lubbock, TX (US);

Bradley P. Fuhrman, El Paso, TX (US);

Inventor:

Bradley P. Fuhrman, El Paso, TX (US);

Assignee:

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, Lubbock, TX (US);

Attorneys:

Loza & Loza LLP

Kevin L. Soules

Primary Examiner:

Quang D Thanh

Assistant Examiner:

Jacqueline M Pinderski

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 16/0434 (2013.01); A61M 16/0402 (2014.02); A61M 16/045 (2014.02); A61M 16/0447 (2014.02); A61M 16/0452 (2014.02); A61M 16/0465 (2013.01); A61M 16/0484 (2014.02); A61M 16/0488 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0238 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for an endotracheal tube or tracheostomy a tube formed with a hole, a cuff connected to the tube and formed around the hole, and a skirt connected to the tube above the cuff and draped over the cuff. A coating of a hydrophobic, lipophobic, and oleophobic substance can be disposed on the interior and exterior surface of the tube, the cuff, and the skirt. A stylet and siring may be used to secure the skirt during insertion in a detachable fashion. The string is retractable on withdrawal of the stylet.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Fuhrman, Bradley. (2020). Self-deployed cuff and skirt tracheal tube (U.S. Patent No. 10661039). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10661039

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