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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1996
Randall S Hickle, Lubbock, TX (US);
Richard B Adams, Lubbock, TX (US);
William A Pesa, Wooster, OH (US);
James L Earsley, Lubbock, TX (US);
Richard A Liles, Lubbock, TX (US);
James C De Villiers, Lubbock, TX (US);
Apotheus Laboratories, Inc., Lubbock, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for preventing contamination of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit of A Hospital by the use of a mask sealed to the patient's face and connected by a ventilator circuit to an airator that pulls a vacuum to exhaust the patient's expirations to the outside atmosphere. The disclosure also includes a 'oxyvent' which is a tube adapted to be attached to an oxygen tank and to a patient to provide a higher oxygen ratio to the patient and to provide forced ventilation to a patient who has difficulty ventilating.