Collaboration/Licence Opportunity PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA RE-BREATHING APPARATUS
BACKGROUND In the normal Jackson-Rees system that is used to provide anaesthetic gas to a patient, one part of the apparatus connects to an open tailed reservoir bag. This bag expands and contracts in unison with the patients breathing and allows the anaesthetist to ventilate the patient by partial occlusion of the tail and squeezing the bag. A major drawback of this system is that when exhaust gases leave the reservoir bag they vent into the operating theatre. This poses a healthcare risk to theatre staff. Although systems are available to attach to the reservoir bag, they include heavy, restrictive and unwieldy valve systems to operate. This is particularly problematic when providing paediatric anaesthetics. THE TECHNOLOGY A researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of Manchester has developed a lightweight, disposable, valve-less, co-axial re-breathing system for use in anaesthesiology that has the novel aspect that it simultaneously enables the safe scavenging of exhaust/waste anaesthetic gases in theatre. KEY BENEFITS• Entirely self contained without a requirement for additional valves
• Single use disposable to minimise cross contamination risk
• Sufficiently flexible and lightweight to support multiple modes of use PATENT STATUS Patents are in place to protect the technology. COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITY The University of Manchester Intellectual Property Limited would welcome approaches from interested parties willing to partner in the commercialisation of this exciting technology. FURTHER INFORMATION If you feel that this technology could be beneficial to your company, we would be delighted to hear from you. Detailed confidential information can be released to interested parties under the terms of our standard confidential disclosure agreement.
KEYWORDS: Paediatric, anaesthesia, re-breathing, circuit, gas
Type of Offer: Licensing
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