Patents Assigned to Hospitec Inc.
  • Method and system for intubation
    Patent number: 6843250
    Abstract: An intubation method and system including the insertion of an endotracheal tube into a patient airway, inflating an cuff associated with the endotracheal tube at a location in the patient airway below the vocal cords, monitoring carbon dioxide concentration in the patient airway at a carbon dioxide monitoring location between the cuff and the vocal cords and adjusting inflation of the cuff based at least in part on the monitoring in order that the cuff inflation generally prevents leakage of carbon dioxide past the cuff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Hospitec Inc.
    Inventor: Shai Efrati