Tube, orotracheal

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OBJECT TYPE: adult/Macintosh or Oxford
DATE: 1955
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0736.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: England

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: rubber and steel

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 23.0 cm
Width: 14.0 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Instruments
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: England
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
Period: This device presumably used 1955+
Canada: Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.
Function: Designed to deliver anaesthetic gasses via the larynx.
Technical: Designed by Sir Robert Macintosh, Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, Oxford University. Tube is molded to contours of adult mouth and oropharynx and tapered to provide an air-tight fit in the larynx. [Ref. 2]
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None, save UHN catalogue no. "980.16.2" printed by hand in black ink on metal fitting.
Missing: None.
Finish: Dark re-brown rubber form; steel collar and fittings.
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Tube, orotracheal, 1955, Artifact no. 2002.0736, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0736.001/

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