Patent ID: 7563227
Filing Date: 2009-07-21
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A laryngoscope and flexible viewing device with intubation means, comprising: a handle operationally attached to a viewing member and a laryngoscope blade; the viewing device comprising a flexible tube having a viewing device, the flexible tube further having means for providing a variable angle view of the interior of a patient's anatomy, the flexible tube being operationally attached to the viewing member and carried adjacent the laryngoscope blade, the flexible tube including a guidewire to guide the intubation device, the guidewire including an end piece pivotal from a first parallel to the guidewire position to a second perpendicular to the guidewire position to keep the guidewire attached to the laryngoscope and flexible viewing device; the device having means to cause, when desired, the distal end of the flexible tube to pivot to any angle in a range from a linear position to a first pivoted position and back through the linear position to a second pivoted position opposite the first pivoted position; the laryngoscope blade comprising a rigid element for effecting the opening of a passageway for an endotracheal tube; and means to carry an intubation device adjacent the flexible tube such that the user alone may view the interior of the patient's anatomy, provide an open passageway and deliver an intubation device.