Appeal No. 98-3360 Page 4
Application No. 08/556,099
As stated in the opening paragraphs of the specification,
the appellant’s invention permits the simultaneous
administration of oxygen, a nebulized bronchodilator, and an
additional medicant to a patient with low or no respiratory
function who is intubated with an endotracheal tube and whose
breathing is being assisted by a manually operated
resuscitator. The invention is manifested in claim 1 by the
recitation of a number of components that are connected
together in a particular fashion. Included among these is a T-
shaped tube having a bottom opening connected to a nebulizer
and side openings connected to a resuscitator on the one hand
and to one branch of a Y-shaped tube on the other hand. The
base opening of the Y-shaped tube is connected to the
endotracheal tube that is in the patient’s trachea. Installed
in the other branch opening in the Y-shaped tube is a self-
sealing plug through which liquid medication can be injected.
The result of this arrangement is that the nebulizer can add
nebulized medication into the stream of gas supplied to the
endotracheal tube by the resuscitator, and liquid medication
can subsequently be injected into the stream that has issued
from the nebulizer.
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