Abstract: An evacuation system for nonambulatory patients from a multistory hospital or the like. A trackway is secureable to a wall of a stairwell and includes a hanger rail support. A hanger is rotatably associable with the hanger rail support and has elongated elements suspended from same for securement to a wheelchair, stretcher, or the like. A brake system is associated with the hanger to normally brake rollers, wheels, or the like of same against movement. A brake release apparatus is operatively associated with the brake system from the hanger for actuation by a patient or attendant to permit the hanger to carry the patient along the trackway.

Abstract: A system for sequential tubular administration of first and second fluids including a first reservoir to contain a first solution, e.g., a solution of medication; a second reservoir having less capacity than the volume of solution in the first reservoir with an overflow chamber. The two reservoirs are in communication with each other, and both are provided with valved solution discharge lines, the entrance to which is provided with a ball float valve. The two discharge lines meet at a wye connection having an infusion feed assembly at an outer free end of same. With a first solution in the first reservoir and with both reservoirs closed to the atmosphere, second solution, e.g., I.V. solution may be fed into the second reservoir which displaces air therefrom into the first reservoir to assist in feeding solution from the first reservoir.

Abstract: A multiple access fluid connector unit having two connector elements adapted for connection to a source of fluid or a fluid administration device and sealed on an opposite end. A plurality of spacially separate access ports are provided along the length of the elements, in communication with a fluid manifold that extends along the element. An outer end of each port has a removable cover to maintain the port sterile prior to use. Ports on one element are associable with ports on the other element to provide fluid flow through the unit. After association of two ports, when desirable to disconnect, the associated ports are severed from the elements and the element is resealed adjacent the cut. Two further of the sterile ports can thereafter be uncovered and used to reinstitute fluid flow through the unit.

Abstract: A gastric feeding device for introduction into the stomach of a patient from the nasal or oral opening thereof comprising an elongate flexible collapsible tube having a longitudinal passageway with a wall thickness incapable of independently sustaining a tubular shape in the absence of internal support in the longitudinal passageway, a relatively rigid fitting having a through passageway attached to the proximal end of the collapsible tube for introducing an elongate flexible support tube into the length of the passageway to support the same during intubation, and for introducing a fluid into and throughout the length of the collapsible tube passageway to contact the inner wall surface thereof after intubation to permit removal of the support tube therefrom.

Abstract: A multiple access fluid connector unit having two connector elements adapted for connection to a source of fluid or a fluid administration device and sealed on an opposite end. A plurality of spacially separate access ports are provided along the length of the elements, in communication with a fluid manifold that extends along the element. An outer end of each port has a removable cover to maintain the port sterile prior to use. Ports on one element are associable with ports on the other element to provide fluid flow through the unit. After association of two ports, when desirable to disconnect, the associated ports are severed from the elements and the element is resealed adjacent the cut. Two further of the sterile ports can thereafter be uncovered and used to reinstitute fluid flow through the unit.