Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for accurately detecting a position of an endotracheal tube by sensing patient anatomy surrounding the endotracheal tube. Systems of the present disclosure include an endotracheal tube having at least one sensor supported by the endotracheal tube configured to detect surrounding patient anatomy. A signal processing unit can receive data from the sensor and can at least one of (i) identify the detected patient anatomy, for example, vocal cords, (ii) determine a distance between the detected patient anatomy and a known point on the endotracheal tube, and (iii) verify a positioning of the endotracheal tube within a tracheal or esophageal lumen of the patient. In some embodiments, the system can include at least one inflatable component that can extend along an outer surface of the endotracheal tube and support the at least one sensor.

The handheld vacuum device disclosed herein comprises, at least, an air pump, a digital camera, and an illumination source. The device uses negative pressure to withdraw foreign objects from areas otherwise difficult to access and visualize, and is preferably used in removing tonsilloliths from the tonsillar crypts of a user. Negative pressure is preferred to prevent dissemination of foreign material down a user's throat and avoid causing additional trauma to the tonsillar crypts. The design disclosed herein further benefits from camera-assisted visualization and illumination to aid in removal of tonsilloliths further down a user's throat and not otherwise visible by unassisted visualization. The endoscopic camera is intended to be a commonly available design that interfaces with standard smart phone devices to display the images acquired through the camera lens.

This invention relates to an airway dilation device comprising a catheter; an inflation tube within the catheter, and having a lumen defined by its inner wall; a duct within the catheter, for the insufflation of a fluid, the duct being sealed against any fluid flow between it and the tube; a cluster of balloons, arranged about the catheter, the balloons being manipulated between a stowed condition, in which the balloons are deflated, and a deployed condition, in which the balloons are inflated; and inflating means, for inflating the balloons; characterised in that, when stowed, each balloon is folded and staggered relative to each adjacent balloon, and such that continuous insufflation remains possible, even when deployed. This invention relates, further, to corresponding methods of deployment of devices.

The disclosed device, method, and system provide a simple, safe, effective and widely applicable method-device to suction the throat in patients with absence or incompetent swallowing reflexes. For instance, disclosed is a combination enteric feeding and pharyngeal suctioning tube that both pumps food to a patient's stomach while suctioning a patient's throat to remove pharyngeal secretions. The suctioning tube may be an attachment to a feeding tube that terminates just at or above the esophageal opening when connected to the feeding tube. The end of the pharyngeal suctioning tube may include perforations that allow the pharyngeal secretions to be vacuumed into the suctioning portion for removal.

Glottis Mask Airway (GMA)an aperture of larynx sealed airway for human ventilation includes a main airway; a non-inflatable cuff at the distal end of the main airway; the shape of the cuff is matched the shape of aperture of larynx perfectly. There is a sealing ring in the device to seal the intersection angle between the aperture of larynx and the wall of pharynx to prevent leakage during the ventilation. There is an epiglottis holder within the cuff where corresponding the epiglottis to prevent the epiglottis falls into the main airway cause the airway block. Plus there are 1) C-channel for gastric tube insertion; 2) at the proximal end of the main airway an openside airway is able to push ETT to the proper position at once; 3) a tongue base rest as the device stabilizer to stabilize the device in using.

An adapter apparatus (24, 80) for a respiratory therapy system (2) having a pressure generating device (4) and an electrical tube assembly (22) coupled to a patient interface device (8) includes a first end having a first port member (66, 94) structured to be fluidly coupled to the electrical tube assembly, a second end having a second port member (70, 88) structured to receive a flow of breathing gas generated by the pressure generating device, the adapter apparatus being structured to deliver the flow of breathing gas to the electrical tube assembly through the first port member, and a wire assembly having a first electrical connector (76, 104) structured to be electrically coupled to the electrical tube assembly and a second electrical connector structured to be electrically coupled to the pressure generating device in order to provide an electrical connection between the electrical tube assembly and the pressure generating device.

An airway device includes an airway tube having a first end surrounded by a laryngeal cuff which includes a back dorsal portion, a front face portion and a tip portion. The front face portion is shaped to form an anatomical fit over the laryngeal inlet of a patient, and to form a seal with the laryngeal inlet of the patient. The tip portion includes an annular sealing bulge which is adapted to wedge into an upper esophagus region of the patient. The annular sealing bulge improves sealing of the tip of the laryngeal cuff in the upper esophageal region of the patient. The annular sealing bulge is preferably formed from a soft polymeric or other plastics material with a Shore hardness of between 40 and 000 on the A scale, and allows for better sealing with a more variable range of upper esophageal anatomical features.

A method includes blocking a posterior opening of a nasal cavity of a patient and delivering a medical fluid through a catheter to a sphenopalatine ganglion of the patient after blocking the posterior opening of the nasal cavity.

This disclosure relates to various aspects of an adaptor for converting a medical device, including an endotracheal tube and/or a bougie, into a device compatible with a camera. In some embodiments, the adaptor comprising a first hollow tube with a distal end opening and a proximal end opening, the first hollow tube having a diameter compatible for insertion of the medical device into the first hollow tube, wherein the adaptor further comprises a camera sealed or attached slidably along the first hollow tube and/or the adaptor comprises a second hollow tube attached along the length of the first hollow tube, the second hollow tube being capable of receiving a camera and/or a medical tool, and wherein the second hollow tube is not sealed at the distal end.

An intubation apparatus and, method of use, for intubating a patient. The apparatus includes an airway ventilation device having tubing located between an inlet end and an outlet end, the outlet end being configured to be locatable in the airway of a patient, intermediary tubing having a first end releasably connectable to the inlet end of the airway ventilation device and a second end having a fitting configured to connect to a gas supply, and an introducer having a first end that is alternatively releasably connectable to the first end of the intermediary tubing and a second end having a blunt tip.