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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric Pagan, Kent, GB;
Assignee:
Smiths Group PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/600 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/600 ;
Abstract
A guide for an endotracheal tube has an outer sheath of a flexible plastics within which is embedded a bendable rod. The rod is of a metal, such as a copper-plated, zinc-iron alloy and is crimped with a series of indentations along opposite sides so as to give it a preferential plane of bending including the center lines of the indentations. The sheath is a hollow tube opening at both ends through hollow plugs.