Video Laryngoscope Systems

摘要

Video laryngoscope system including a video laryngoscope having a laryngoscope handle and a laryngoscope blade. The video laryngoscope system includes an image capture module with at least two stationary imaging units spaced apart along the laryngoscope blade for providing real-time video streams of a patient's airway passage during an intubation and a controller for enabling a clinician performing the intubation to select one or more of the real-time video streams for real-time display on a display screen to assist intubation of a patient.

主权项

1. A video laryngoscope system for assisting tracheal intubation of a patient, the video laryngoscope system comprising:
(a) a video laryngoscope including:
i) a laryngoscope handle,ii) a laryngoscope blade transversely extending from said laryngoscope handle and having a distal laryngoscope blade tip remote from said laryngoscope handle, andiii) an image capture module with at least two stationary imaging units spaced apart along said laryngoscope blade relative to said distal laryngoscope blade tip such that said image capture module includes a leading imaging unit proximate said distal laryngoscope blade tip and a trailing imaging unit behind said leading imaging unit relative to said distal laryngoscope blade tip,
each said imaging unit capable of capturing a real-time video stream of a patient's airway passage during a manipulation of said laryngoscope blade therealong from an initial blade insertion into the patient's mouth to a final blade position,said trailing imaging unit capturing a different real-time video stream of the patient's airway passage than said leading imaging unit at a location of said laryngoscope blade along the patient's airway passage, and (b) a controller for enabling a clinician performing an intubation to select at least one said real-time video stream during the intubation for real-time display on a display screen to assist intubation of the patient.