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 | | A nasal cannula for insufflating a patient with oxygen through one nare of the cannula and separately analyzing the exhaled gases from the patient by drawing the sampling of the exhaled gas from the other nare of the cannula into a conventional carbon dioxide analyzer. |
 | | A further addition of holes or vents in the nares of the cannula are provided on both the interior and posterior of one or both nares in order to substantially reduce or eliminate the incidence of occlusion of the tip of the carbon dioxide sampling nare. |
 | | The nasal cannula 10 of one embodiment of the present invention consists of a generally tubular face piece 12 having two nares 13 and 14 and a septum 15 disposed in the center of the face piece 12 between the openings 16 and 17, respectively, of the nares 13 and 14 (see FIGS. |
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