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Multi-purpose-catheter-assembly

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Multi purpose catheter assembly

Details

Inventors: Jinotti, Walter J.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Burr; Edgar S.
Assistant Examiner: Asher; Kimberly L.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Green; Robert A.

The disclosure is of a catheter assembly including a hollow T-shaped member having a patient end and a rear end which is blocked from the patient end by a wall. A catheter is adapted to be introduced through the rear end of the member into a patient and the rear end includes a sponge, located out of the airway of the patient by the wall but the wall includes means for opening the wall to let the catheter through it for introduction into the patient. The sponge cleans the catheter as it is withdrawn but mucus cannot be returned to the airway to the patient.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
An oxygen-suction catheter assembly including a first hollow tubular portion comprising a front chamber for insertion into the mouth of a patient, a second hollow tubular portion coupled to said first tubular portion and comprising a rear chamber for coupling patient treatment means into said first tubular portion and into a patient, a third tubular portion coupled to said first tubular portion, flexible tube means slidably coupled to said second hollow tubular portion for insertion through said second hollow tubular portion and said first hollow tubular portion into a patient, a wall between said second tubular portion and said first tubular portion and having an aperture for permitting said flexible tube means to pass therethrough, means adjacent to said wall for blocking and blocking said aperture, said blocking and unblocking means having a first unblocked position when said flexible tube means is inserted through said aperture and into a patient and a second blocked position when said flexible tube means is withdrawn from a patient into said rear chamber, and cleaning means in said rear chamber for cleaning said flexible tube means as it is withdrawn from a patient.
2.
The apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein said cleaning means is a sponge which has a through hole through which flexible tube means is slid.
3.
The apparatus defined in claim 2 wherein said through-hole has a cross-sectional shape comparable to the cross-sectional shape of said flexible tube.
4.
The apparatus defined in claim 1 and including a sleeve positioned between said wall and said cleaning means, said cleaning means comprising a sponge.
5.
The apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein said blocking and unblocking means comprising a slidable solid plate having an aperture, said solid plate being slid from a first position in which said plate aperture is in alignment with said wall aperture, and a second position in which said plate aperture is out of alignment with said wall aperture

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