Patent ID: 6478774
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A device for postoperative autotransfusion particularly in heart surgery, comprising, functionally connected in a monolithic unit: a suction control chamber, which is adapted to be connected to a vacuum generator by means of a tube; a blood collection chamber, which is provided at a bottom thereof with a cock adapted to be connected to a bag and adapted to be connected by means of at least one tube to a drainage system of a patient; and a water seal, which is interposed between said control chamber and said collection chamber and comprises two ducts which are interconnected at a lower end and are connected, at an upper end, respectively to the suction control chamber and to the blood collection chamber, a union being provided proximate to an end that is connected to said blood collection chamber, said union being connected to the atmosphere by means of a tube, the device further comprising means which are adapted to act simultaneously at least on said tubes respectively connected to the atmosphere and to the drainage system of the patient, so as to selectively provide a condition in which the tube connected to the atmosphere is closed and the tube connected to the patient drainage system is open, and a condition in which said tube connected to the atmosphere is open and said tube connected to the patient drainage system is closed.