Device for administering artificial respiration to a patient

• US 6,578,574 B1
• Filed: 01/19/2001
• Issued: 06/17/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AMBU International A/S
• Original Assignee: AMBU International A/S
• Inventors: Køhnke, Ole B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo, Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, MITAL B
• Application Number:
  US09/647,240
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 128/202.28, 128/202.29, 128/203.11, 128/204.28, 128/205.13, 128/205.14, 128/205.15, 128/205.16, 128/203.28
• US Class Current: 128/203.11
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0078 Breathing bags
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0081 Bag or bellow in a bottle
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0084 self-reinflatable by elasticity, e.g. resuscitation squeeze bags
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/125 Diluting primary gas with ambient air
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/208 Non-controlled one-way valves, e.g. exhalation, check, pop-off non-rebreathing valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/209 Relief valves

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for performing artificial respiration on a patient, comprising a container (1) which defines an inner volume relative to the ambient and has a first opening accommodating a valve arrangement (2, 14) which allows inflow of air or gases from the outer area to the inner area, and a second opening in connection with which there is provided a valve arrangement (3, 16) which allows outflow from the container and prevents inflow to the container through the second opening. An expansible means (7) is provided in the container and adapted to expand upon action from the outer area to displace air and/or other gases in the container (1) out through the second opening. This improves the certainty that oxygen and/or other gas finds its way to the patient'"'"'s air passages.

Claims

1. A device for performing artificial respiration on a patient which comprises:

a container having a wall which defines first, second and third openings,

a first valve device connected to said first opening for enabling gaseous medium to flow into said container and prevent flow of gaseous medium out of said container,

a second valve device connected to said second opening for enabling gaseous medium to flow out of said container and prevent flow of gaseous medium into said container, and

an expandable device within said container and connected to said third opening so as to expand when filled with gaseous medium flowing therein through said third opening, thereby forcing gaseous medium in an inner space between said expandable device and said wall of said container through said second opening and said second valve.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the container wall that delimits said inner volume is flexible.

3. A device for performing artificial respiration on a patient which comprises:

a container having a wall which defines first, second and third openings,

a first valve device connected to said first opening for enabling gaseous medium to flow into said container and prevent flow of gaseous medium out of said container,

a second valve device connected to said second opening for enabling gaseous medium to flow out of said container and prevent flow of gaseous medium into said container,

an expansible means within said container which can expand when filled with gaseous medium flowing therein through said third opening, thereby forcing gaseous medium in an inner space between said expansible means and said wall of said container through said second opening and said second valve, and

means for connecting said expansible means to said third opening.

4. A device according to claim 3, wherein the expansible means is a self-contractible means.

5. A device according to claim 4, wherein the expansible means comprises a bag of a flexible sheet material and an elastic net arranged on the outer side thereof, a bag of an elastic rubber material or a bag of a flexible material formed with corrugations or folds which, when relieved, contract the bag.

6. A device according to claim 4, wherein the expansible means comprises a connecting element adapted to cooperate with a complementary connecting element arranged in said third opening in the container.

7. A device according to claim 6, wherein the complementary connecting elements comprise a bayonet socket, a threaded connection, a conical frictional connection, or a press fit, whereby said expansible means is releasably secured to said third opening.

8. A device according to claim 7, wherein the expansible means is insertable into said container through said third opening.

9. A device according to claim 3, wherein the expansible means comprises a mouthpiece.