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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1984
Eric W Brown, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Henry T Tai, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
I-Flow Corporation, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A valve is disclosed which includes a hollow cylindrical housing having a plurality of input sites and a rotary core member having an output pasageway. The input sites which are not in communication with the output passageway are sealed. The valve may also include a primary input site connected to a conduit surrounding the rotary core member of the valve. The valve is demountable on a control apparatus for performing a method of administering a plurality of fluids intravenously to a patient. According to the method of the present invention, a neutral solution is provided in between each of the other different fluid solutions being infused into the patient. The control apparatus of the present invention may be programmed to automatically provide the patient with a prescribed amount of each fluid solution through the catheter tube.