Ventilator system with multiple inspiratory lumens is provided. The inspiratory lumens are configured so that separate inspiratory lumens provide inspiratory gas mixtures to separate portions of a patient's airways, for instance to separate lungs and/or bronchi. The ventilator system can include one or more expiratory lumens to evacuate expiratory gases from airways. The use of separate inspiratory lumen(s), with expiratory lumen(s), allows for functional separation of structural portions of the lungs, and maintenance of continuous or almost continuous flow through at least part of respiratory cycle via inspiratory and expiratory lumens. This can further reduce dead space and clear suspended therein diseases causative agents with improvement in outcomes, reduce risk of cross-contamination or cross-infection between different parts of airways, for example such as cross-infection from one lung lobe to another lobe or. The ventilator system allows for independent titration of PEEP, pCO.sub.2 and pO.sub.2 with no need for permissive hypercapnia.

A device for use in delivering oxygen to a human patient while measuring carbon dioxide exhaled from that patient, comprises: (a) a base member having an oxygen delivery inlet port and a carbon dioxide detection outlet port formed therein separate from the oxygen delivery port; (b) a flexible cannula extending from the base, the cannula having a proximal end portion, an intermediate portion, a distal end portion, a first lumen formed therein, and a second lumen separate from the first lumen formed therein, with the distal end portion connected to the base member, the first lumen in fluid communication with the oxygen delivery inlet port, and the second lumen in fluid communication with the carbon dioxide detection outlet port.

Devices, methods, and systems are provided for occluding a collateral flow channel between a target lung compartment and an adjacent lung compartment. A video-assisted thoracoscopic device is inserted into a thoracic cavity of a patient and positioned at a fissure between a target lung compartment and an adjacent lung compartment. A collateral flow channel between the target lung compartment and the adjacent lung compartment is then identified using the video-assisted thoracoscopic device and an agent is injected into the collateral flow channel, thereby reducing the collateral flow channel.

An airway management device (AMD) is described. Such an AMD may have a laryngeal mask, a portion of which is configured to fit against a patient at an area surrounding the patient's laryngeal inlet, and thereby cover a laryngeal inlet of the patient. Some embodiments of the AMD may include a delivery tube having interior wall surfaces defining one or more gas channels. The gas channels may be in gas-communication with the laryngeal mask.

An airway management system, comprising: a breathing circuit connector component, an inner tube component, and a connecting tube, further comprising: a laryngeal mask component and a telescopic tube component; or, an endotracheal tube component, the breathing circuit connector component comprises a breathing circuit connector; a plurality of cavities is provided in the laryngeal mask airway tube of the laryngeal mask component; a plurality of cavities is provided in a endotracheal tube of the endotracheal tube component; and one end of the breathing circuit connector is connected to a laryngeal mask connector of the laryngeal mask component, or an endotracheal tube connector of the endotracheal tube component, or the laryngeal mask connector and an inner tube connector of the inner tube component, or the endotracheal tube connector and the inner tube connector, or a telescopic tube machine end connector of the telescopic tube component and the inner tube connector.