Jing Mei Song

US Patent:

6508757, Jan 21, 2003

Filed:

Oct 23, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/695573

Inventors:

Paul Huan Song - Alhambra CA 91803
Jing Song - Staten Island NY 10304

International Classification:

A61B 124

US Classification:

600120

Abstract:

A cost-effective fiberoptic endotracheal intubation aid that comprises a petalled tubular stylet, a medial member and a compress device is disclosed. The petalled tubular stylet is a section of tube made of malleable material and has a proximal end splitted into multiple longitudinal petals of certain length. The medial member is a resilient thin flat sheet with edge curb and the compress device is a clamp-like device. Such an intubation aid can be easily used in combination with conventional flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope and conventional endotracheal tube (E. T. ). It will make the flexible insertion probe of F. O. bronchoscope as firm, preformable and manipulatable as a regular solid-wire stylet. Intubators using the present invention are able to visualize patients pharynx area and simultaneously manipulate the tubular stylet for guiding E. T. into patients trachea to a desired location.