Kevin R. Ward,Albert J. Shih,Jeffrey Stephen Plott,Christopher Shih
申请号：
US14565947
公开号：
US20150164726A1
申请日:
2014.12.10
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
An airway support appliance lifts a patients jaw upwards by using the mid-face of the patient as a stable fulcrum, thereby alleviating the need for techniques or devices to detect or alleviate airway obstructions. The appliance spans the patients lower face and is secured to the angle and ramus of each side of the mobile mandible. These attachments are linked to one another across the midface or maxilla, using the bridge of the nose or the area between the nose and upper lip of the patient as the stabilizing point. The appliance may include an adjustment mechanism to facilitate tightening. Upon securement of the device to the patient while in a supine position, and activation of the adjustment mechanism, the mandible of the patient, which is mobile, is lifted anteriorly. Upon lifting of the mandible, the patients tongue is carried forward and away from the posterior pharynx.
