Patent ID: 7036501
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: A61B,A61M,B29C

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring the carbon dioxide of a patient's breath while the patient is under general anesthesia, comprising: intubating the patient's throat with an airway having an open ended air conduit extending therethrough and extending through a plenum of larger breadth than the open ended air conduit formed on the airway and to the larynx of the patient, maintaining an air passage between the airway and the facing surfaces of the patient's throat to permit the patient to breathe about the airway, inducing the patient to exhale through the open ended conduit of the airway and the plenum, withdrawing breath from about the larynx of the patient through the air conduit of the airway and through the plenum and to a carbon dioxide monitor without interrupting the air passage, and monitoring the carbon dioxide content of the patent's breath withdrawn from about the larynx with the carbon dioxide monitor.