Abstract: Devices and methods for creating a breathing passage and/or for maintaining a position of a septum. An exemplary device includes a base member, a first side member extending upward away from a first edge of the base member and being configured to contact a septum of a nasal cavity, and a second side member extending upward away from a second edge of the base member and being configured to contact a turbinate. The first and/or second side members are made of a flexible material. An exemplary method includes inserting a septum support into one side of a nasal cavity for creating a breathing passage, placing a first side member and a second side member of the septum support into contact with a septum and a turbinate, respectively. The first and second side members are biased away from one another such that pressure is applied to the septum.

Abstract: Devices and methods for creating a breathing passage and/or for maintaining a position of a septum. An exemplary device includes a base member, a first side member extending upward away from a first edge of the base member and being configured to contact a septum of a nasal cavity, and a second side member extending upward away from a second edge of the base member and being configured to contact a turbinate. The first and/or second side members are made of a flexible material. An exemplary method includes inserting a septum support into one side of a nasal cavity for creating a breathing passage, placing a first side member and a second side member of the septum support into contact with a septum and a turbinate, respectively. The first and second side members are biased away from one another such that pressure is applied to the septum.

Abstract: An inflatable nasal packing device, and method of use, for insertion in a patient's nasal cavity to control bleeding or epistaxis. The device includes a flexible insertion tube, a first inflatable bag attached to and surrounding an anterior section of the tube, and a second inflatable bag attached to and surrounding a posterior section of the tube. The tube has three lumens for providing separate fill passageways to the two bags to allow independent filling and pressurization and for providing an air passageway through the device even when the bags are inflated. Both bags have walls of non-elastic, flexible material with fixed surface areas defining interior volumes when inflated that are larger than the anterior nasal cavity and the posterior nasal cavity and nasopharynx.