IMPROVED MOUTH OPENER FOR INTRODUCING LARYNGEAL MASKS AND OTHER MEDICAL DEVICES THROUGH THE ORAL CAVITY

摘要

The invention relates to a tool which allows solving the existing drawbacks when operating in the buccal cavity and introducing other devices, as well as the need of previously mounting the laryngeal mask system on the components of said introductory tool and requiring the assistance of an auxiliary person to stabilize the head of the patient. Firstly, the tool acts as a mouth gag, and secondly it acts as a tool to facilitate the introduction of the laryngeal mask and is formed by an upper or palatine intraoral portion, a lower or lingual intraoral portion, a mechanism for separating the two intraoral portions, a self-locking mechanism of the lower portion and an unlocking mechanism of the aforementioned self-locking mechanism.