Laser resistant ventilating device with locking ferrule
CA 2001779 C · Owner: Bell, Craig James · Inventors: Stoddard, Philip V.; Schneider, Donald R.; Bell, Craig James
Overview
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A liquid-filled sealing cuff of an airtight surgical ventilating device is protected from laser-effected damage during laser surgery by a liquid-containing barrier cuff positioned between an area of the laser surgery and the liquid-filled sealing cuff. The body of the surgical ventilating device is formed of a mattefinished flexible metal tube in the area of the laser surgery to resist damage by laser beam impact and to dispose highly unfocused light when a surgical laser beam is directed against the outer surface of the metal tube. A locking ferrule prevents disengagement of an atraumatic insertion tip of the device from the flexible metal tube.
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- Filed October 30, 1989 and granted August 30, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 30, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 30, 2011.
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