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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Larry E Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Darrel Palmer, Sandy, UT (US);
Assignee:
Ballard Medical Products, Draper, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604 33 ; 604 35 ; 604118 ; 604163 ; 604167 ; 604241 ; 12820716 ; 251318 ; 251331 ; 2513352 ; 251336 ; 137903 ;
Abstract
A reliable, contamination-resistant, single-use, disposable, medical, non-ventilating, aspirating device and method. The device releasibly connects to and aligns with an indwelling endotracheal tube to accommodate advancing of an aspirating catheter tube of the device by manual manipulation through a sterile, flexible envelope and selective evacuation of lung secretions through a closed and sterile two-position, normally-closed, manually-operable valve at the proximal end of the device, while simultaneously accommodating voluntarily respiration by the patient.
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