MULTIPLE-USE AIRWAY MASK

A flexible transparent multiple use face mask that encloses a user's face allowing the user's airway to be ventilated that includes a transparent flexible airway mask that encloses and ventilates a user's airway, an airway adaptor that directs a quantity of ventilation to the transparent flexible airway mask, a manual resuscitation bag valve that receives the airway adaptor and controls the quantity of ventilation directed to the transparent flexible airway mask and a manual resuscitation bag that produces the quantity of ventilation transmitted through the airway adaptor to the transparent flexible airway mask. The multiple-use airway mask may also be turned inside-out and be utilized in combination with an endotracheal tube or a tracheotomy tube and also includes an optional attachment strap to prevent losing the transparent flexible airway mask as an added safety measure to keep the mask and bag connected.

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Description

The present application is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. Non-Provisional application Ser. No. 13/680,041 filed on Nov. 17, 2012. The present application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application 61/561,617 filed on Nov. 18, 2011, both disclosures are incorporated by reference herein.

TECHNICAL FIELD & BACKGROUND

The present invention generally relates to an airway mask. More specifically, the invention is a multiple-use airway mask.

It is an object of the invention to provide a multiple-use airway mask that may be utilized in combination with or without an artificial airway such as an endotracheal tube or a tracheotomy tube.

It is an object of the invention to provide a multiple-use airway mask that may be inverted and may be utilized in a normal position and an inverted position.

It is an object of the invention to provide a multiple-use airway mask that is a single-piece to prevent losing a detachable airway mask.

What is really needed is a multiple-use airway mask that may be utilized in combination with or without an artificial airway such as an endotracheal tube or a tracheotomy tube that may be inverted and may be utilized in a normal position and an inverted position that is a single-piece to prevent losing a detachable airway mask.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention will be described by way of exemplary embodiments, but not limitations, illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which like references denote similar elements, and in which:

FIG. 1A illustrates a side environmental perspective view of a multiple-use airway mask, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1B illustrates a side perspective view of a multiple-use airway mask, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A illustrates a side environmental perspective view of an inverted multiple-use airway mask utilized in combination with an endotracheal tube, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2B illustrates a side environmental perspective view of an inverted multiple-use airway mask utilized in combination with a tracheotomy tube, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2C illustrates a side perspective view of an inverted multiple-use airway mask, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENTS

Various aspects of the illustrative embodiments will be described using terms commonly employed by those skilled in the art to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced with only some of the described aspects. For purposes of explanation, specific numbers, materials and configurations are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the illustrative embodiments. However, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without the specific details. In other instances, well-known features are omitted or simplified in order not to obscure the illustrative embodiments.

Various operations will be described as multiple discrete operations, in turn, in a manner that is most helpful in understanding the present invention; however, the order of description should not be construed as to imply that these operations are necessarily order dependent. In particular, these operations need not be performed in the order of presentation.

The phrase “in one embodiment” is used repeatedly. The phrase generally does not refer to the same embodiment, however, it may. The terms “comprising”, “having” and “including” are synonymous, unless the context dictates otherwise.

FIG. 1A illustrates a side environmental perspective view of a multiple-use airway mask 100, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

The multiple-use airway mask 100 illustrated in FIG. 1A may include the multiple-use airway mask 100 and a user 110. The multiple-use airway mask 100 may ventilate the user 110 without the utilization of an artificial airway such as an endotracheal tube (FIG. 2A, 210) or a tracheotomy tube (FIG. 2B, 260). The user 110 may simply place the multiple-use airway mask 100 against a user's face 112 to ventilate the user 110. Additional details regarding the multiple-use airway mask 100 are illustrated in FIG. 1B.

FIG. 1B illustrates a side perspective view of a multiple-use airway mask 100, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The multiple-use airway mask 100 illustrated in FIG. 1B may be similar to the multiple-use airway mask 100 illustrated in FIG. 1A.

The multiple-use airway mask 100 may include a transparent flexible airway mask 120, an airway adaptor 130, a manual resuscitation bag valve 140, a manual resuscitation bag 150 and an optional attachment strap 160. The transparent flexible airway mask 120 may enclose a user's face 112 while the user's airway 113 may be ventilated (See FIG. 1A). The transparent flexible airway mask 120 may be enclosed against and removed from the user's face 112 as needed. The transparent flexible airway mask 120 may be transparent and allows a health care worker to unobstructedly look over the transparent flexible airway mask 120 to prevent the user 110 from aspirating on secretions and the user 110 may receive an appropriate air flow or ventilation airway mask. The term unobstructedly is defined as allowing the user 110 to look over the transparent flexible airway mask 120 without the transparent flexible airway mask 120 blocking any user 110 visual capability. The airway adaptor 130 may have a first end 132, a second end 134 and may have a hollow elongated shape 136. The airway adaptor 130 may direct a quantity of ventilation to the transparent flexible airway mask 120. The first end 132 of the airway adaptor 130 may have an approximate 15 mm diameter and the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130 may have an approximate 22 mm diameter, although the first end 132 and the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130 may have any suitable diameter. The first end 132 of the airway adaptor 130 may extend inside the transparent flexible airway mask 120 and the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130 may extend outside the transparent flexible airway mask 120. The airway adaptor 130 may be permanently bonded to the transparent flexible airway mask 120. The manual resuscitation bag valve 140 may receive the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130 and may be permanently bonded to the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130. The manual resuscitation bag valve 140 may receive the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130 and may be releasably attached to the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130. The term removably inserted is defined as allowing an object being inserted into something such as a user's mouth 114 or a user's airway 116 and being capable of being released. The term releasably attached more specifically is defined as the manual resuscitation bag valve 140 receiving the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130 and being capable of being released from the second end 134 of the airway adaptor 130. The manual resuscitation bag valve 140 may control a quantity of ventilation directed to the transparent flexible airway mask 120. The manual resuscitation bag 150 may be permanently attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve 140 and may produce a quantity of ventilation transmitted through the airway adaptor 130 to the transparent flexible airway mask 120. The manual resuscitation bag 150 may produce a quantity of ventilation by a person, typically a caregiver or a healthcare provider such as a respiratory therapist, a nurse, a doctor, a paramedic or any other suitable person by squeezing the manual resuscitation bag 150. The optional attachment strap 160 may have a first end 162 and a second end 164. The optional attachment strap 160 may keep the transparent flexible airway mask 120 attached to the manual resuscitation bag 150 as a safety measure due to any malfunction which may separate the transparent flexible airway mask 120 from the multiple-use airway mask 100, where the transparent flexible airway mask 120 may still be attached or bonded and be available. The first end 162 of the optional attachment strap 160 may be attached to the transparent flexible airway mask 120 and the second end 164 of the optional attachment strap 160 may be attached to the manual resuscitation bag 150.

FIG. 2A illustrates a side environmental perspective view of an inverted multiple-use airway mask 200 utilized in combination with an endotracheal tube 210, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The multiple-use airway mask 200 illustrated in FIG. 2A may include a transparent flexible airway mask 220, an airway adaptor 230, a manual resuscitation bag valve 240, a manual resuscitation bag 250 and an optional attachment strap 255 that may be similar to the multiple-use airway mask 100, the transparent flexible airway mask 120, the airway adaptor 130, the manual resuscitation bag valve 140, the manual resuscitation bag 150 and the optional attachment strap 160 illustrated in FIG. 1B.

Additionally the multiple-use airway mask 200 may include an endotracheal tube 210. In contrast to FIG. 1B, the transparent flexible airway mask 220 may be turned inside-out thereby exposing a first end 232 of the airway adaptor 230 that may be similar to the first end 132 of the airway adaptor 130 illustrated in FIG. 1B. The endotracheal tube 210 may have a first end 212 and a second end 214 and may provide an artificial airway into a user's mouth 114 or a user's airway 116. The first end 212 of the endotracheal tube 210 may be removably inserted into the first end 232 of the airway adaptor 230. The second end 214 of the endotracheal tube 210 may be removably inserted into the user's mouth 114 or the user's airway 116 to provide a quantity of ventilation to the user's mouth 114 or the user's airway 116.

FIG. 2B illustrates a side environmental perspective view of an inverted multiple-use airway mask 200 utilized in combination with a tracheotomy tube 260, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The multiple-use airway mask 200 illustrated in FIG. 2B may include a transparent flexible airway mask 220, an airway adaptor 230, a manual resuscitation bag valve 240 and a manual resuscitation bag 250 that may be similar to the multiple-use airway mask 200, the transparent flexible airway mask 220, the airway adaptor 230, the manual resuscitation bag valve 240, the manual resuscitation bag 250 and the optional attachment strap 255 illustrated in FIG. 2B.

In contrast to FIG. 1B, the transparent flexible airway mask 220 may be turned inside-out thereby exposing a first end 232 of the airway adaptor 230 that may be similar to the first end 132 of the airway adaptor 130 illustrated in FIG. 1B. The tracheotomy tube 260 may have a first end 262 and a second end 264 and may provide an artificial airway to a user's airway 116. The first end 262 of the tracheotomy tube 260 may be removably inserted into the first end 232 of the airway adaptor 230. The second end 264 of the tracheotomy tube 260 may be removably inserted into an aperture 117 on the user's airway 116 to provide a quantity of ventilation to the user's airway 116.

FIG. 2C illustrates a side perspective view of an inverted multiple-use airway mask 200, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

The multiple-use airway mask 200 illustrated in FIG. 2C may include a transparent flexible airway mask 220, an airway adaptor 230, a manual resuscitation bag valve 240, a manual resuscitation bag 250 and an optional attachment strap 255 that may be similar to the multiple-use airway mask 200, the transparent flexible airway mask 220, the airway adaptor 230, the manual resuscitation bag valve 240, the manual resuscitation bag 250 and the optional attachment strap 255 illustrated in FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B. The multiple-use airway mask 200 illustrated in FIG. 2C may also be turned inside-out to accommodate the endotracheal tube 210 or the tracheotomy tube 260 with the first end 232 of the airway adaptor 230 as illustrated in FIG. 2A and FIG. 2B.

The multiple-use airway mask may solve the problem of losing a detachable airway mask. The multiple-use airway mask may have no detachable parts and may solve the problem of losing an airway mask. The multiple-use airway mask, which may be turned inside-out, may be an improvement over a traditional airway mask. The multiple-use airway mask may work by ventilating a user with or without an artificial airway. The multiple-use airway mask may include a fixed air adapter that may be bonded to the airway mask near the base of the mask between the airway mask and the bag reservoir. The multiple-use airway mask may manually ventilate a user with a healthcare provider squeezing the reservoir bag to desired lung inflation. The multiple-use airway mask may be turned inside-out exposing the adapter to accommodate an artificial airway for the purpose of manual ventilation.

The multiple-use airway mask may be utilized to ventilate a user without having to disassemble or reassemble a bag valve mask. The multiple-use airway mask may ventilate a user with or without an artificial airway in any user population. Our design may have no detachable parts which will insure that in an event of an unplanned extubation, there may be no loss of an airway mask and may also ensure a quantity of ventilation without a lapse in time, which would put the user at risk for anoxic brain injury or even death from respiratory failure.

The multiple-use airway mask may be utilized as a single entity unit, void of one or more removable parts without disassembly or reassembly. The multiple-use airway mask may be designed permanently bonded to the manual resuscitation bag valve, which enables ventilation of a natural airway while adjusting without removing any part or incurring a time lag for reassembly to ventilate any and all artificial airways of all patient populations.

The multiple-use airway mask includes a bag, a mask and ventilation. It is utilized to ventilate patients requiring artificial respiration. Such indications are cardiac arrest, multiple trauma, acute asthma exacerbation, chronic obstructed pulmonary disease exasperation and all surgery that require mechanical ventilation. The delineation of utilizing the multiple-use airway mask starts out with a healthcare provider assisting a patient with artificial respiration. A facemask is placed on the bag valve unit and the patient's natural airway is ventilated by the medical professional utilizing the multiple use airway mask to provide ventilation. Once the patient is unconscious due to sedation or current illness an endotracheal tube is inserted into a patient's airway. The face mask is then removed from the unit. The 15 mm adapter is exposed to connect to the endotracheal tube and ventilation is continued through this artificial airway.

The facemask at this stage is placed nearby. At this point in time is where problems with a removable facemask may begin. The facemask is much too often misplaced. It ends up missing, under a bed, is inadvertently thrown out, is tossed-in an unreachable area or is not available if the endotracheal tube is breached, accidentally dislodged or not in a patent's airway for a litany of reasons. When this happens the facemask is needed to ventilate the patient's natural airway. Too often the facemask is missing at this critical point of manual resuscitation thus putting the patient's life at risk for brain injury or death from hypoxia due to the facemask being missing and no ventilation may be provided to the natural airway of any patient without it.

The multiple airway mask provides a collateral and permanent bond of the face-mask, bag valve and bag reservoir. The face-mask never leaves the unit so it may never be missing at any critical point of artificial ventilation. The multiple use airway mask may save many lives.

While the present invention has been related in terms of the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention is not limited to the embodiments described. The present invention can be practiced with modification and alteration within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Thus, the description is to be regarded as illustrative instead of restrictive on the present invention.

Claims

1. A multiple-use airway mask, comprising:

a transparent flexible airway mask that encloses a user's face while a user's airway is ventilated, the transparent flexible airway mask allows the health care worker to unobstructedly look over the transparent flexible airway mask to adjust a selected one of an aspiration and an impediment that affect the transparent flexible airway mask;
an airway adaptor with a first end, a second end and a hollow elongated shape, the airway adaptor directs a quantity of ventilation to the transparent flexible airway mask, the airway adaptor is permanently bonded to the transparent flexible airway mask, the first end of the airway adaptor extends inside the transparent flexible airway mask and the second end of the airway adaptor extends outside the transparent flexible airway mask;
a manual resuscitation bag valve that receives the second end of the airway adaptor, the manual resuscitation bag is permanently bonded to the second end of the airway adaptor forming a non-detachable one piece unit, the manual resuscitation bag valve controls the quantity of ventilation directed to the transparent flexible airway mask;
a manual resuscitation bag that is attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve, the manual resuscitation bag produces the quantity of ventilation transmitted through the airway adaptor to the transparent flexible airway mask; and
an optional attachment strap with a first end and a second end, the optional attachment strap keeps the transparent flexible airway mask attached to the manual resuscitation bag, the first end of the optional attachment strap is attached to the transparent flexible airway mask and the second end of the optional attachment strap is attached to the manual resuscitation bag.

2. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 1, wherein the first end of the airway adaptor has a 15 mm diameter.

3. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 1, wherein the second end of the airway adaptor has a 22 mm diameter.

4. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 1, wherein the manual resuscitation bag produces the quantity of ventilation by a selected one of a caregiver and a healthcare provider.

5. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 4, wherein the healthcare provider is a selected one of a respiratory therapist, a nurse, a doctor and a paramedic.

6. A multiple-use airway mask utilized in combination with an endotracheal tube, comprising:

a transparent flexible airway mask;
an airway adaptor with a first end, a second end and a hollow elongated shape, the airway adaptor directs a quantity of ventilation to the transparent flexible airway mask, the airway adaptor is permanently bonded to the transparent flexible airway mask, the first end of the airway adaptor extends inside the transparent flexible airway mask and the second end of the airway adaptor extends outside the transparent flexible airway mask, the transparent flexible airway mask is turned inside-out exposing the first end of the airway adaptor;
a manual resuscitation bag valve that receives the second end of the airway adaptor, the manual resuscitation bag is permanently bonded to the second end of the airway adaptor forming a non-detachable one piece unit, the manual resuscitation bag valve controls the quantity of ventilation directed to the transparent flexible airway mask;
a manual resuscitation bag that is attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve, the manual resuscitation bag produces the quantity of ventilation transmitted through the airway adaptor to the transparent flexible airway mask; and
an optional attachment strap with a first end and a second end, the optional attachment strap keeps the transparent flexible airway mask attached to the manual resuscitation bag.

7. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 6, wherein the first end of the airway adaptor has a 15 mm diameter.

8. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 6, wherein the second end of the airway adaptor has a 22 mm diameter.

9. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 6, wherein the manual resuscitation bag produces the quantity of ventilation by a selected one of a caregiver and a healthcare provider.

10. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 9, wherein the manual resuscitation bag is a selected one of permanently attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve and releasably attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve.

11. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 6, wherein the endotracheal tube has a first end and a second end, the endotracheal tube provides an artificial airway into a selected one of a user's mouth and a user's airway.

12. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 11, wherein the first end of the endotracheal tube is removably inserted into the first end of the airway adaptor.

13. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 11, wherein the second end of the endotracheal tube is removably inserted into an aperture of the user's airway to provide the quantity of ventilation to the selected one of a user's mouth and the user's airway.

14. A multiple-use airway mask utilized in combination with a tracheotomy tube, comprising:

a transparent flexible airway mask;
an airway adaptor with a first end, a second end and a hollow elongated shape, the airway adaptor directs a quantity of ventilation to the transparent flexible airway mask, the airway adaptor is permanently bonded to the transparent flexible airway mask, the first end of the airway adaptor extends inside the transparent flexible airway mask and the second end of the airway adaptor extends outside the transparent flexible airway mask, the transparent flexible airway mask is turned inside-out exposing the first end of the airway adaptor;
a manual resuscitation bag valve that receives the second end of the airway adaptor, the manual resuscitation bag is permanently bonded to the second end of the airway adaptor forming a non-detachable one piece unit, the manual resuscitation bag valve controls the quantity of ventilation directed to the transparent flexible airway mask;
a manual resuscitation bag that is permanently attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve, the manual resuscitation bag produces the quantity of ventilation transmitted through the airway adaptor that is permanently bonded to the transparent flexible airway mask; and
an optional attachment strap with a first end and a second end, the optional attachment strap keeps the transparent flexible airway mask attached to the manual resuscitation bag.

15. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 14, wherein the first end of the airway adaptor has a 15 mm diameter and the second end of the airway adaptor has a 22 mm diameter.

16. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 14, wherein the manual resuscitation bag produces the quantity of ventilation by a selected one of a caregiver and a healthcare provider.

17. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 16, wherein the manual resuscitation bag is a selected one of permanently attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve and releasably attached to the manual resuscitation bag valve.

18. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 14, wherein the tracheotomy tube has a first end and a second end, the tracheotomy tube provides an artificial airway into an aperture of a user's airway.

19. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 18, wherein the first end of the tracheotomy tube is removably inserted into the first end of the airway adaptor.

20. The multiple-use airway mask according to claim 18, wherein the second end of the tracheotomy tube is removably inserted into the aperture of the user's airway to provide the quantity of ventilation to the aperture of the user's airway.

Patent History
Publication number: 20140190484
Type: Application
Filed: Mar 17, 2014
Publication Date: Jul 10, 2014
Inventors: Roscoe C. Peace (New York, NY), Gaspare Leo (Valley Stream, NY)
Application Number: 14/216,412
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Respiratory Gas Supplied From Expandable Bag, Bellows, Or Squeeze Bulb (128/205.13)
International Classification: A61M 16/06 (20060101); A61M 16/20 (20060101); A61M 16/04 (20060101); A61M 16/00 (20060101); A61M 16/08 (20060101);