Suction tubing in "Y" two-way

Abstract

The suction system in the surgical area is part of the operation room, one of its functions is helps to aid the vision of the surgeon and the surgical team. Currently the operation rooms use a regular suction tubing which is just one female connector to the suction system, a body tube and a female connector to the surgical field.

With the modification and adaptation of the regular suction tubing, we will get the new suction tubing in “Y” two-way for surgery, one unit will do the job of 2 regular suction tubing, which will help in saving time to connect, and avoid changing tubes between instruments during the surgery (uncomfortable), less tangles in the surgical field and it will impact in the environment since we will producing fewer PVC which means less material to be disposed.

Claims

1- suction tubing in “Y” two-way for surgeries Characterized by being composed of a body tube with linear ridges in the surface; in one of the ends it has a female connector for the suction system and the other end is connected to the lower part of a connector of three ways in “Y” shape, this connector in “Y” shape in the upper part is connected in each way with extremities tubes with linear ridges in the surface, whose extremities end each one with a female connector for the surgical field.

2- suction tubing in “Y” two-way for surgeries According to claim 1 characterized by having a connector of three ways in “Y” shaped which in the lower part is connected to the body tube with linear ridges in the surface and in the upper parts connected in each way with extremities tubes with linear ridges in the surface.

3- suction tubing in “Y” two-way for surgeries According to claim 2 characterized for having extremities tubes with linear ridges in the surface which are connected to the upper part of the connector of three ways in “Y” shape and finished each extremity in a female connector to the surgical field which will be connected to the different surgical instruments.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

[0011] The following content describes the suction tubing in “Y” two-way where:

[0012] FIG. 1: suction tubing in “Y” two-way where we can see a female connector to the suction system (2), a body tube with linear ridges in the surface (1), a connector of three ways in “Y” shape (3), two extremities tubes with linear ridges in the surface (4), and two female connectors to the surgical field (5)

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0013] The suction tubing in “Y” two way for surgeries like the regular suction tubing used in the present is made of PVC in its whole.

[0014] The suction tubing in “Y” two-way is an improvement of the regular suction tubing.

[0015] The suction tubing in “Y” two-way illustrated in the FIG. 1: have two female connectors to the surgical field (5), two extremities tubes with linear ridges in the surface (4), a connector in three ways in “Y” shape (3) made of polypropylene or a material stronger that PVC to avoid bending, twisting; a body tube with linear ridges in the surface (1); a female connector to the suction system (2). Unlike the regular suction tubing which is just one female connector to the surgical field, a body tube and a female connector to the suction system.

[0016] At the present the most common use of a minima invasive surgery is the trend like the laparoscopy surgeries and the arthroscopy surgeries on the latter type of surgery, where they have appeared more instruments to help the surgeon; such as, the scope, electrocautery, and the shaver. Is in this kind of surgery where the suction tubing in “Y” two way is most useful.

[0017] Regarding Arthroscopy surgeries; the Hip, knee, shoulder are the most frequently performed.

[0018] To organize one of those types of surgeries (arthroscopies) the surgical tech need to at least open 2 suction tubing, sometimes 3 o 4 tubing in order to make the instruments work appropriately. The connection of all those tubes plus the cables of light, camera, shaver, and electrocautery, make to the surgical team stressed, since they have to prevent each cable and tube from getting tangled, twisted, bended or contaminated.

[0019] For this reason, suction tubing in “Y” two-way illustrated FIG. 1, is going to be a great help because on those cases we just need to open one unit (when we need two regular suction tubing) or two units (when we need 4 regular suction tubing) since each unit have 2 female connectors for the surgical field, and one female connector for the suction system of the operation room.

[0020] With this suction tubing in “Y” two-way:

1—The nurse or the circulating person will be opening less packages of suction tubing by surgery, less connections to the suction system.
2—It's environment friendly because the regular suction tubing has a length of 3 meters +−5 cm according the different companies. Now if we need 4 tubes, it will be 12 meters of PVC (disposables). With the suction tubing in “Y” two-way which are 4 meters length for unit, for this same surgery we just need 2 units, which will only account for 8 meters of PVC, making a big difference of 4 less meters of PVC. This is a big impact for the environment since producing fewer PVC means that there will be less material to be disposed at the end of each surgery, making a better overall impact.
3—The suction tubing in “Y” two-way can be used for other kind of surgeries, such as, spinal surgeries, bilateral mastectomies, and ACL surgeries.