41 results about "Oropharyngeal airway" patented technology

An implant for treating obstructive sleep apnea includes a flexible chamber, a fluid reservoir in fluid communication with the flexible chamber, and a fluid transfer assembly in communication with the fluid reservoir and the flexible chamber for transferring fluid therebetween for selectively modifying the rigidity of the flexible chamber. The flexible chamber is implantable within the soft tissue of an oropharyngeal airway of a patient, such as within the tongue, the soft palate, or the pharyngeal wall. The fluid reservoir and the fluid transfer assembly are implantable within the inframandibular region of the patient. The fluid transfer assembly is selectively engageable by the patient for transferring fluid between the two chambers for modifying the rigidity, flexibility, and/or shape of the flexible chamber with minimal or no change to the volume of the implant.

An oropharyngeal device for insertion into the mouth of a patient. The device includes a body having a distal end and a proximal end with a flange formed at the proximal end. The distal end is inserted into the mouth until the flange is disposed outside and adjacent to the patient's mouth. The flange keeps the proximal device from entering the mouth. The body is sized such that the distal end of the body is disposed within the pharynx above the epiglottis. The device includes a channel that forms an airway between the ends. The device also includes at least three separate conduits integrated into the body for administering oxygen, suctioning, and for assessing ventilation thorough end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring. The conduits for oxygenation and suctioning extend through the body between its proximal and distal ends. The conduit for end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring terminates within the channel.

A respiratory mask provides improved sealing through the use of an intraoral mouthpiece with a large sealing area. A tubular extension, configured at one end to accept standard respiratory fittings, is the conduit for gas delivery to the intraoral mouthpiece. The respiratory mask may also include an intraoral oropharyngeal airway which flexes so that it can be inserted without the need for rotation or use of a tongue blade. The respiratory mask may also include an external shield to enhance sealing and provide a barrier of protection for the healthcare provider. The mask's design allows for a novel handgrip technique that allows a single healthcare provider to ventilate with enhanced sealing.

An adjustable oropharyngeal airway apparatus includes a rigid airway portion comprising a mouthpiece and a flexible airway portion frictionally engaging and slidably disposed in the mouthpiece. The overall length of the apparatus can be varied by sliding the flexible portion relative to the mouthpiece.

An oropharyngeal airway configured for placement within a mouth of a patient to create a passageway between a mouth of a patient and the posterior pharyngeal wall that includes a passageway body, a flange assembly and a reactive material. The flange assembly is positioned at the end of the body and includes spaced apart upper and lower flange portions, which define a passageway therebetween which is in communication with the opening of the passageway body. The reactive material cooperates with the flange assembly and the passageway defined by the spaced apart flange portions. The reactive material provides qualitative visual indication as to whether the patient is effectively ventilating. A nasopharyngeal airway is likewise disclosed, as is a flange assembly which can be coupled to existing airways.

The invention discloses an environmentally-friendly degradable disposable medical apparatus base material and a manufacture method thereof. The environmentally-friendly degradative disposable medical apparatus base material is characterized in that the degradable macromolecule main ingredient comprises 100 parts of polylactic acid base material with a molecular weight of 2000 000 and 2-5 parts of ethylene bis stearamide. The degradable base material can be used for manufacturing the disposable medical apparatuses, such as a disposable cervical dilator, a disposable uterine probe, a disposable uterine curet, a disposable vaginal dilator, a disposable intrauterine device extractor, a disposable oviduct ligating hook and plate, a disposable cervical biopsy sampler, a disposable umbilical cord clamp, a disposable tongue depressor, a disposable instrumenta cibaria mordentia, a disposable cuffed oropharyngeal airway, a disposable anaesthetic laryngoscope, a disposable rhinoscope, a disposable ear mirror, a disposable anoscope, a disposable rectum, sigmoid flexure biopsy forceps, a disposable nasopharynx biopsy forceps, a disposable syringe pipe, a disposable surgical knife handle, and a disposable oral cavity impression tray. The used disposable medical apparatus should not be burnt and can be completely degraded through the compost treatment, so that the purposes of the environmental protection and energy conservation, the aims of environment pollution avoidance, safety and health and the mankind benefit can be reached.

An oropharyngeal airway device and method, including inserting a nasopharyngeal airway means in a collapsed configuration through one of the nares, nasal cavity and nasopharynx and into the pharynx to locate an expandable body in a collapsed configuration in the pharynx substantially around the glottis, epiglottis and laryngeal opening; and expanding the nasopharyngeal airway means and the expandable body from the collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration to create the oropharyngeal airway through the nasopharyngeal airway means and expandable body.

The invention discloses a medical plug-in oropharyngeal airway comprising an airway body; one end of the airway body is provided with a by-mistake swallowing preventing bulge, the outer surface of the other end of the airway body is provided with an annular bulge surrounding the circumference of the end of the airway body, and a fore-tooth occlusion slot is formed in the outer surface of the airway body. The fore-tooth occlusion slot comprises an upper fore-tooth occlusion slot matched with the upper fore-tooth of a human body and a lower fore-tooth occlusion slot matched with the lower fore-tooth of the human body. Each of the upper fore-tooth occlusion slot and the lower fore-tooth occlusion slot is rectangular and is 2 cm long, 0.5 cm wide and 0.5 cm deep. The annular bulge is 1-2 cm wide and 0.5 cm high. The airway body is an airway made of medical silicon rubber. The medical plug-in oropharyngeal airway is simple in structure, scientific and reasonable in design and capable of not only avoiding falling-off caused by coughing and sneezing, but also further reducing the subsidiary-injury degree to the oropharynx of the human body.

The invention discloses a multifunctional anaesthetic laryngoscope cover. The laryngoscope cover body comprises an oral pad part and a bending part, wherein the bending part comprises a cover body and a guide plate; the guide plate is arc-shaped, and the bottom of the cover body fits the upper end of the arc-shaped guide plate; the oral pad part is one cylindrical oral pad provided with a through hole; the cylindrical oral pad sheathes the outer side wall of the bending part; multiple L-shaped arc-shaped plates are arranged in the cover body and are clamped in clamping slots which are formed in the inner side walls of the left side wall and the right side wall of the cover body; an open pore is formed in the left end and the right end of the cylindrical oral pad, and a tape body is arranged on each open pore. The multifunctional anaesthetic laryngoscope cover provided by the invention can be used as the laryngoscope cover and also can be used as a tracheal intubation guiding device, an oral pad and an oropharyngeal airway, thereby being applicable to laryngoscopes in different specifications; and the multifunctional anaesthetic laryngoscope cover has the characteristic of multifunction, so that usage cost is greatly reduced.

The invention discloses an effective supporting type oxygen uptake and sputum suction oropharyngeal airway apparatus and relates to the technical field of medical apparatuses and instruments. The technical problem that the existing oropharyngeal airway apparatus has adverse stimulation effect easily resulting in occurrence of complications threatening patient's life is solved, the oxygen uptake and sputum suction structure and functions are integrated, and efficiency of the apparatus is improved. The effective supporting type oxygen uptake and sputum suction oropharyngeal airway apparatus comprises an internal airway body from near end to far end and a supporting plate parallel to and as wide as the lingual surface of a human body; the supporting plate comprises a near end and a far-end bending portion, the near end is located on the front surface of the internal airway body and forms the wall of a tube, and the angle of bending of the far-end bending portion is 0-180 degrees; the front surface of the far-end bending portion is provided with at least two uniformly distributed protrusions, concaves or through holes, and the protrusions are smooth in dental surface and upright in pharyngeal surface which is 1-2mm in height, the concaves are 0.5-1mm in depth of concavity, or the through holes are 1-3mm in diameter; the internal airway body from near end to far end integrates an oxygen uptake and sputum suction tube.

The invention relates to an air breather preventing respiratory tract obstruction; the air breather removing oropharynx airway obstruction effect comprises a teeth support pipe and a tongue support pipe; the teeth support pipe and tongue support pipe are connected in one body; the tongue support pipe is provided with annular open bodies forming the annular open type pipe; every two annular bodies are movably connected through a connecting shaft. The air breather preventing respiratory tract obstruction can freely change the shape of the oropharynx airway so as to adapt to the patient oral cavity internal physiology anatomy needs; the air breather preventing respiratory tract obstruction is more customized, can satisfy different people demands, so the open type changeable oropharynx airway can be more practical and convenient in application; the air breather preventing respiratory tract obstruction can timely and effectively control patient respiratory tract obstruction conditions caused by glossocoma or various reasons in stupor, thus removing airway obstruction.

The invention discloses an oral appliance, relates to the technical field of medical instruments, and mainly aims to guide forward movement of a mandible and improve a breathing problem caused by retraction of the mandible. The oral appliance comprises a lower jaw tooth socket, wherein a spherical tongue aspirator is connected to a center line position of the lower jaw tooth socket, and the spherical tongue aspirator enables the tongue to be stretched, the oropharyngeal airway to be opened and the lower jaw to be kept forward by means of negative pressure and saliva adhesive force.

The invention discloses an oropharyngeal airway. The oropharyngeal airway includes a flange, a connecting plate mechanism is embeddedly installed into the top of the flange, the bottom of the flange is connected with a connecting rope, a dental pad is installed on one side of the flange, an airway main body is installed on the other side of the dental pad, and one side, close to the airway main body, of the dental pad is provided with a positioning mechanism. After the airway main body is inserted into a patient, the connecting rope can be wound from the outside of a patient head, hooks are combined with positioning buckles to complete fixing of the device, so that the device is prevented from falling off from a patient mouth, at the same time a way of connecting a lanyard from ears is abandoned, and discomfort to the patient ears is avoided; and fixing of the outer side of the airway main body can be completed by using a way of clamping from the outer side, so that the problem that the other end damages a patient throat or the patient throat is stimulated and vomited due to change in angle is avoided, and the easy-to-use effect is achieved.

A closed ventilation type oropharyngeal airway comprises an airway breathing circuit mask connecting portion and an oropharyngeal airway, and is characterized in that a connecting plug is reserved at the lower end of the airway breathing circuit mask connecting portion, is hollow and cylindrical and can be closely connected with an oropharyngeal airway connecting hole, a hollow middle rectangle is arranged on the connecting plug, a connecting seat is mounted at the upper end of the airway breathing circuit mask connecting portion, is hollow and cylindrical and can be connected with a circuit mask of a breathing machine to realize closed ventilation, a front section of the oropharyngeal airway is a bent arc and is hollow, the outer surface of the front section of the oropharyngeal airway is elliptical, a rear section of the oropharyngeal airway is straight and hollow, the outer surface of the rear section of the oropharyngeal airway is elliptical, elliptical fixed wings are arranged on the top of the oropharyngeal airway, a circular connecting hole is arranged between the fixed wings, and closed ventilation type oropharyngeal airways can have large, middle and small sizes of 10cm, 8cm and 7cm respectively according to the different linear lengths of corresponding oropharyngeal airways. The closed ventilation type oropharyngeal airway overcomes technical shortcomings of an existing clinical oropharyngeal ventilation device, and is an oropharyngeal ventilation device capable of being connected with anesthetic masks and breathing machines by pipelines to realize closed ventilation.

The invention provides an oropharyngeal airway. The oropharyngeal airway comprises a flange plate and further comprises a breather pipe which is fixedly connected with the flange plate and can extendinto an oral cavity of a patient, and the breather pipe is arranged to be capable of being bent and shaped according to the shape of the tongue of the patient so as to be attached to the tongue of thepatient. The oropharyngeal airway can effectively improve the comfort of the patient.

The invention relates to an oropharyngeal airway for assisting visual soft lens examination and intubation and medical equipment, and belongs to the technical field of medical equipment. The oropharyngeal airway comprises an oropharyngeal airway body, and the oropharyngeal airway body comprises a bent part extending into a throat and a bite block occlusion part arranged in an oral cavity; and thebite block occlusion part comprises an extra-cavity part extending to the outer side of the oral cavity, the outer wall face of the extra-cavity part is connected with an oxygen pipe, and the oxygen pipe communicates with the interior of the oropharyngeal airway. According to the oropharyngeal airway body provided by the invention, the communicating oxygen pipe is arranged on the partial side walloutside the oral cavity, so that oxygen can be introduced into the oropharyngeal airway in an assisted mode, the patient examination and intubation oxygen deficit time is shortened, and longer operation time is provided for visual soft lens examination and intubation.

The invention relates to a mouth-lip fitting type oropharyngeal airway and an application method thereof. A reinforced connection ring is fixedly installed on the outer wall of a limit joint tube; anairbag ring is fixedly installed on the outer wall of the reinforced connection ring; the top of the airbag ring is provided with an airbag valve connector; an adsorption tube is fixedly installed ina vent pipe; the top of the adsorption tube is arranged on the outer side of the limit joint tube; a chamfered softened joint is fixedly installed on the outer side at the bottom of the vent pipe; anda tooth-tongue protecting washer is fixedly installed on the outer wall of the vent pipe at the lower part of the airbag ring. Thus, abrasion to mucosa can be relieved; even if liquid such as salivagenerated by foreign body sensation, the adsorption tube can be used to perform rapid adsorption; more important, the adsorption tube can be placed at the front or middle position to use; and throughthe utilization of the inner cavity of the isolated vent pipe, adsorption can be performed on the premise of not influencing other vent pipe inner cavity pipes to place in, therefore, risks during using can be reduced, and safety factors can be greatly enhanced.

The invention discloses a pillow capable of relieving the glossocoma generated after catheter removal of children. The pillow comprises an upper soft cushion, a lower body, a button for adjusting theheight of the pillow, a mechanism for adjusting the inclination angle of the pillow and pillow grooves. The upper soft cushion and the lower body are fixed, the button for adjusting the height of thepillow is connected with the mechanism for adjusting the inclination angle, the button for adjusting the height of the pillow is located on one side of the lower body, and the pillow grooves are formed in the front and rear sides of the upper soft cushion respectively. By means of the pillow, the cuffed oropharyngeal airway and the nasopharyngeal airway can be effectively replaced in most cases, various complications caused when the cuffed oropharyngeal airway and the nasopharyngeal airway are used are reduced, meanwhile, the pillow is simple and easy to implement, and the height and the anglecan be adjusted so that the pillow can be suitable for different children.