Abstract: An apparatus for clamping and severing an umbilical cord or other elongated member, wherein a pair of clamps are held and positioned by a clamp carrier. A separate plunger member having severing blades mounted thereon operably cooperates with the clamp carrier by being received for slidable translation therein to effect severing. As the plunger is slid forwardly for severing operation, the pair of clamps are automatically released from the clamp carrier. The severing blades remain safely contained at all times within the clamp carrier throughout the operation.

Abstract: A device for clamping and then cutting an umbilical cord in separate and distinct clamping and cutting steps. Two parallel clamps are held together by two bridges held between the blades of a pair of scissors. As the blades move towards each other, the umbilical cord is first clamped, and then the scissors are removed from the bridges, and thereafter the scissors sever the umbilical cord. The bridges are then removed from the clamp affixed to the portion of the umbilical cord attached to the newborn child.

Abstract: A catheter formed of an elongated, hollow tube having a sealed, separate air passageway formed integrally of the tube and extending from a point near the forward end of the tube to an integral air inlet nozzle located near the rear end of the tube and extending outwardly therefrom. An inflatable barrel shaped cuff is mounted upon and encircles the tube near its forward end, there being an opening in the tube wall communicating the interior of the cuff with the air passageway for inflating and deflating the cuff. A cup shaped seal is also mounted upon the tube and is frictionally secured thereto by integral springy flanges which permit forwardly sliding the seal upon the tube but which resists rearward sliding of the seal.