Abstract: An artificial airway assembly for ventilating a patient, is provided, comprising a flexible airway tube having a proximal end and a distal end, adapted to guide a working tool to an operating position to view vocal cords and trachea of the patient, said flexible airway tube comprising at least one locally weakened and tearable course adapted to permit detachment of at least a section of said airway tube while maintaining said working tool in said operating position; and a mask fixedly secured to said distal end of said flexible airway tube, said mask having conforming means for conforming to a space immediately adjacent to the larynx of the patient to properly position said working tool. In alternative embodiments, the assembly further includes an inflatable balloon that directs the airway tube toward the patient's trachea.

Abstract: The present invention presents an integrated (i) inner tube, and (ii) laryngeal mask device, comprising: (i) an outer laryngeal mask tube (OLT) having proximal portion and distal portion; comprising: a balloon cuff shaped as a laryngeal mask located in said distal portion and an elongated tube in connection with the balloon cuff (TOLT); (ii) an inner tube located within said OLT characterized by a main longitudinal axis and (iii) at least one lateral movement preventing element located circumferentially to said inner tube and between said inner tube and said OLT. Thereby, when the balloon cuff is in a deflated configuration, the thickness of the same is reduced such that said balloon cuff is not protruding from the TOLT.

Abstract: An artificial airway assembly for ventilating a patient, is provided, comprising a flexible airway tube having a proximal end and a distal end, adapted to guide a working tool to an operating position to view vocal cords and trachea of the patient, said flexible airway tube comprising at least one locally weakened and tearable course adapted to permit detachment of at least a section of said airway tube while maintaining said working tool in said operating position; and a mask fixedly secured to said distal end of said flexible airway tube, said mask having conforming means for conforming to a space immediately adjacent to the larynx of the patient to properly position said working tool. In alternative embodiments, the assembly further includes an inflatable balloon that directs the airway tube toward the patient's trachea.

Abstract: An automatically operative medical insertion device and method including an insertable element which is adapted to be inserted within a living organism in vivo, a surface following element, physically associated with the insertable element and being arranged to follow a physical surface within the living organism in vivo, a driving subsystem operative to at least partially automatically direct the insertable element along the physical surface and a navigation subsystem operative to control the driving subsystem based at least partially on a perceived location of the surface following element along a reference pathway stored in the navigation subsystem.

Abstract: An automatically operative medical insertion device (12) and method including an insertable element (18) which is adapted to be inserted within a living organism in vivo, a surface following element (20), physically associated with the insertable element and being arranged to follow a physical surface within the living organism in vivo, a driving subsystem (15) operative to at least partially automatically direct the insertable element along the physical surface and a navigation subsystem (274) operative to control the driving subsystem based at least partially on a perceived location of the surface following element along a reference pathway stored in the navigation subsystem.

Abstract: An automatically operative medical insertion device and method including an insertable element which is adapted to be inserted within a living organism in vivo, a surface following element, physically associated with the insertable element and being arranged to follow a physical surface within the living organism in vivo, a driving subsystem operative to at least partially automatically direct the insertable element along the physical surface and a navigation subsystem operative to control the driving subsystem based at least partially on a perceived location of the surface following element along a reference pathway stored in the navigation subsystem.