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Surface treatment for a medical device

  • US 9,023,314 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2009
  • Issued: 05/05/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An airway device comprising:

  • a conduit for insertion into a patient'"'"'s trachea; and

    an acyl-homoserine lactone analog comprising a hydrocarbon tether covalently bound directly to a surface of the conduit, wherein the acyl-homoserine lactone analog is a non-microbicidal compound configured to interrupt bacterial communication to reduce biofilm formation on the conduit when the conduit is inserted into the trachea, and wherein the conduit which is covalently bound to the acyl-homoserine lactone analog comprising a hydrocarbon tether has a Formula (II),

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