APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING BLOOD DURING SURGICAL OPERATION Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A61M1/02 

FIELD: medicine, in particular, transfusion.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus has rigid casing with cover, planar soft blood container placed within casing, said container being equipped with blood feeding and blood discharge branch pipes, which are connected to rigid casing on its cover and bottom, respectively, branch pipe for creating vacuum in casing through supplying vacuum to control pipe, whose end is engageable with control lever for switching on and off of blood suction and feeding of anti-coagulant. Closing device is mounted on branch pipe for creating vacuum in casing. Additional vacuum supplying branch pipe provided on casing cover or on casing itself is communicating with container cavity. Free end of control pipe is connected to outside part of additional vacuum creating branch pipe. Safety valve is provided in vacuum supply system. Apparatus is adapted for creating vacuum in casing, with extent of vacuumization being equal to or exceeding vacuumization extent in container.

EFFECT: simplified construction facilitating in preparing of apparatus for operation.

6 cl, 3 dwg