Abstract: A medicament discharging device and an expendable clip thereon containing a plurality of medicament cartridges. Each of the cartridges comprises a container, a dosage of medicament in the container, a hypodermic needle sealingly contained in a sterile condition in cooperating relation with the container and a movable wall means at one end of the container operable when moved through a discharging stroke to cause the sharpened end of the needle to move outwardly out of sealingly contained relation and into the muscle tissue of a patient and the medicament dosage to move outwardly of the container into the opposite end of the needle and out of the sharpened end thereof into the muscle tissue of the patient.

Abstract: A dual mode automatic injector having a dual mode safety device for preventing the release of the stressed spring assembly except when it is desired to operate the medicament injecting assembly by the stressed spring assembly. The dual mode safety device comprises a first part including a pin portion disposed in a safety position extending through a central aperture in the rear wall of the housing assembly of the injector in release preventing relation with the stressed spring assembly for removal therefrom in response to a relative rearward movement with respect to the rear wall so as to permit an actuating movement to release the stressed spring assembly. The first part includes an automatic removal portion fixed to the rearward end of the pin portion.

Abstract: Apparatus for resuscitating a plurality of patients comprising four face mask assemblies each of which is operable to be operatively connected with a patient so as to permit fresh air to be supplied to the lungs of such patient and four bellows assemblies actuated by a cam track rotated either by a suitable clutched electric motor or by hand crank for delivering successive volumes of fresh air under pressure to each face mask assembly at a desired cyclical frequency wherein each cycle includes said fresh air delivery as a minor part thereof.

Abstract: An assembly for enabling a respiratory medicament to be administered to a gas mask wearer without breaking the seal between the face blank of the gas mask and the wearer's face. The assembly comprises a container, a respiratory medicament dosage releasably disposed within the container, and a shroud covering the container for (1) interiorly communicating with the exterior of a normally closed passage extending through the face blank of the gas mask to the sealed interior thereof, (2) exteriorly isolating the container and (3) enabling the respiratory medicament dosage to be released from the container while the interior communicating and exterior isolating relationships are maintained.

Abstract: An emergency electrode comprising a housing assembly, a stressed spring mounted within the housing assembly so as to be released in response to a predetermined manual actuation procedure, an electrode hypodermic needle member mounted within the housing assembly in a sterile condition in cooperating relation with the stressed spring for movement outwardly of the housing assembly in response to the release of the stressed spring so as to penetrate into the muscle tissue of a patient, a bendable wire member extending outwardly from the hollow interior adjacent the leading end thereof in a trailing direction for yieldably retaining the leading end portion of said hypodermic needle in penetrating condition within the muscle tissue of a patient. An electric circuit is completed exteriorly through the needle when in said penetrating relation within the muscle tissue of a patient.

Abstract: An automatic injector comprising an elongated housing assembly having a forward end, a stressed spring assembly mounted within the rearward end of the housing assembly so as to be released in response to a predetermined manual actuation procedure, and a medicament injection cartridge assembly mounted within the forward end of the housing assembly in cooperating relation with the stressed spring assembly. The improvement of the present invention is in the medicament injection cartridge assembly which includes a medicament container, a hypodermic needle disposed forwardly of the container mounted in a sterile condition within the housing assembly adjacent the forward end thereof. A forward seal is provided for sealing the forward end of the container from the hypodermic needle. A rearward piston is mounted in the rearward end of the container for forward movement therein in slidably sealed relation thereto.

Abstract: A plural injection assembly comprising a plurality of separate injections capable of separate actuation and a holder for stably supporting the separate injectors together and for manually facilitating the sequential actuation thereof.

Abstract: A wet-dry syringe package including a syringe adapted to carry a liquid and a vial carrying a dry medicament with cooperating adapters provided on the syringe and vial for telescoping action whereby the syringe needle will be embedded in the vial stopper when the package is in the storage condition. Further movement of the syringe toward the vial causes the needle end to project through the vial stopper and establish fluid communication between the vial and syringe whereby the dry medicament and liquid are mixed. The mixture is then aspirated into the syringe and the syringe is freed of the package elements for ready use.

Abstract: Aqueous solutions of pralidoxime salts are stabilized with hydroxylamine salts.

Abstract: A plural injecting device comprising an outer housing assembly, a plurality of cartridge sub-assemblies, and a corresponding plurality of releasable spring sub-assemblies for effecting a forward movement of the associated hypodermic needle into the user's muscle tissue and the associated liquid medicament dosage outwardly through the needle, the sub-assemblies being mounted within the outer housing assembly so that as a result of the actuation of one of the releasable spring sub-assemblies the other releasable spring sub-assembly will be actuated so as to insure a substantially simultaneous injection of the plural dosages contained within the device. A safety arrangement in some embodiments provides for selective individual or plural dosage injection.

Abstract: Benactyzine hydrochloride is stabilized in a mixture of propylene glycol and water. Preferably a small amount of ethanol is present.

Abstract: An additive adapter for use in conjunction with an injector wherein the injector includes a cylindrical body having a rearward open end and a forward end necked inwardly to form an annular lip. The forward end having a central opening of reduced diameter which is closed off by a sealing diaphragm. A plunger is sealingly and slidably fitted in the rearward portion of the body to form a medicament chamber between the sealing means and the plunger. A needle hub is affixed to the annular lip and carries a needle which is in fluid communication with the medicament chamber upon the opening of the sealing diaphragm. The additive adapter comprises a main body portion including a cylindrical skirt portion extending from the rearward end of the cylindrical sleeve. The skirt is sized to snugly engage and fit over the forward portion of the injector's cylindrical body. A cylindrical shield having a diameter larger than the cylindrical sleeve extends from the forward end thereof.

Abstract: A device for use under emergency conditions in applying heart-lung resuscitation procedures and the like to a patient while supported thereon which enables such patient to be transported from an inaccessible location of attack onto an ambulance stretcher without removing such support, the device being in the form of a self-contained portable unit comprising a frame structure having parts relatively movable between a collapsed unit carrying position and an extended patient supporting treatment and a transporting position operable when disposed in the patient treatment and transporting position to be engaged on a horizontal surface such as a floor or the like for support in stable relation thereon and to engage and support a patient thereon in a supine position to provide for a relatively unyielding support of the patient's back area sufficient to effect cardiac compression through the application of periodic mechanical downward forces on the chest area of the patient.

Abstract: An I.V. injector having a cylindrical barrel open at one end and closed at the other end by sealing means, a cannula mounted on the closed end outwardly from the sealing means, a plunger slidably carried in the open end of the barrel, a chamber formed in the barrel between the plunger and the sealing means, said chamber being adapted to receive a high concentrate I.V. medicament, and a safety member on the closed end of the barrel to render the injector impractical for use in intravenous injection of the I.V. medicament into a patient.

Abstract: A hypodermic injection device comprising a cartridge holder having a cylindrical body open at one end and closed at the other end, the closed end being provided with an aperture, a cartridge with the holder, the cartridge including an ampoule having a cylindrical sleeve open at one end and having a necked portion at the other end to receive a hub mounting a cannula, the cannula facing the apertured end of the cylindrical body, a piston slidably carried within the sleeve adjacent the open end thereof to define a medicament chamber between the piston and cannula, fluid medicament in the medicament chamber, the piston having a concave face on the side forming one end of the medicament chamber, a spring power assembly adjacent the open end of the ampoule sleeve for moving the cartridge forward and for injecting the fluid medicament, spacer means positionable between the outer face of the piston and the adjacent spring power means to vary the position of the piston within the ampoule sleeve and thereby control the

Abstract: A method of treating coronary prone patients when heart attack symptoms occur before qualified direct contact personal care can be administered to the patient which comprises providing each of a multiplicity of coronary prone patients with (1) a plurality of separate medicaments in self-administering form and (2) a device operable when disposed in operative relation to a patient to provide auditory signals indicative of the existing heart beat conditions of the patient, establishing communication by telephone between the patients experiencing heart attack symptoms and a source capable of making a qualified response based upon the existing heart beat conditions of the patient as to the medicament which will be effective when administered, disposing the device in operative relation with the patient and communicating the signals to the qualified source by means of the communication, communicating by means of the communication a qualified response from the source an indicated medicament which should be administer