Patent ID: 6766801
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A patient care device, comprising:an endotracheal tube for facilitating ventilating a patient, said tube having a proximal end opening, a distal end opening and a sub-port opening; a sub-port tube having a proximal end and a distal end, said sub-port tube extending through said sub-port opening and being attached at about its distal end to said endotracheal tube at about its distal end opening; an atomizer nozzle disposed within said sub-port tube, said atomizer nozzle being partially attached to said sub-port tube at about its distal end and partially attached to said endotracheal tube at about its distal end opening; and said atomizer nozzle having a fluid delivery seat for receiving therein a nozzle connector to facilitate medicating the patient, said nozzle connector being disposed at a distal end of a delivery conduit having a sufficiently small diameter to enter the distal end of said sub-port tube and to pass therethrough to cause said nozzle connector to be received within said fluid delivery seat.