EXPANDABLE INTUBATION DEVICE

摘要

The present invention relates to a ventilating apparatus for safely intubating patients during surgical procedures. The apparatus is an expandable intubation device comprising an expandable endotracheal tube compressed with a perforated sheath that is removed after the device is inserted into a patient. As the sheath is removed, the tube within the device expands within the trachea and assumes its fully deployed position.