Patent ID: 6237597
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
An endotracheal medication port adapter for administering, and in combination with, a first medication and a life supporting gas directly into the pulmonary vasculature of a patient, said adapter comprising:a) a first straight medication tube including a first end for receiving the first medication therethrough in liquid form and a second end adapted to deliver the liquid medication into the pulmonary vasculature of a patient, and syringe receptor means connected to said first end for receiving a syringe needle to deliver said liquid medication into said first medication tube;b) a second medication tube extending into and through said first medication tube having a first end outside of said first medication tube for receiving life supporting gas and a second end extending out of the second end of said first medication tube adapted to deliver said life supporting gas into the pulmonary vasculature of the patient;c) said second medication tube entering said first medication tube through a side thereof from a source of life supporting gas; andd) said second medication tube having a circumference smaller than a circumference of said first medication tube and concentric with and spaced from said first medication tube, wherein said liquid medication travels around said second medication tube into the pulmonary vasculature of the patient.