The present application relates to the field of ventilation treatment device, and particularly relates to a patient interface apparatus and a ventilation treatment device including the patient interface apparatus.
Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation has been widely used in treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other diseases. In the non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, a blower is used to provide a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or a variable pressure ventilation to a patient's airway through a tube and a patient interface apparatus, instead of surgically inserting a tube in the patient's airway.
The patient interface apparatus of the non-invasive ventilation treatment is usually provided with a nasal oxygen catheter and types of breathing masks such as a nasal mask, an oral-nasal mask and a full-face mask and so forth. Either the nasal oxygen catheter or the breathing mask, a gas cavity which is connected to the mouth/nose of the patient is provided to supply gas to the patient. During the treatment process, due to water vapor is contained in both inhaled and exhaled gas by the patient, it is very easy to condense water in the gas cavity, and excessive condensed water may pose a potential threat to the patient.
Due to the patient interface apparatus on the current market is not provided with a function of automatically removing condensed water, it requires active intervention of medical staffs, which makes the apparatus inconvenient to use and increase labor intensity of the medical staffs at the same time. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a patient interface apparatus which is capable to automatically remove condensed water, thereby improving safety of ventilation treatment and reducing labor intensity of the medical staffs.
The object of the present application is to provide a patient interface apparatus and a ventilation treatment device including the patient interface apparatus, to solve the problems as mentioned above.
In order to implement the object mentioned above, one aspect of the present application provides a patient interface apparatus for a ventilation treatment device, wherein the patient interface apparatus comprises a main body and a first moisture-extraction part, wherein a gas cavity is defined inside the main body and configured to communicate with the patient's mouth and/or nose, the first moisture-extraction part is disposed on the main body and comprises a first part communicate with the gas cavity and a second part located outside the main body, the first moisture-extraction part is disposed to be capable to absorb moisture inside of the gas cavity and conduct the moisture to the second part through the first part.
Optionally, the patient interface apparatus comprises a headband, the headband is configured to fix the main body to the patient's head, the first moisture-extraction part is formed as either a part of the headband or the entire headband.
Optionally, the moisture-extraction part comprises a fixed stacked water-absorbing layer and a waterproof layer, the waterproof layer is disposed close to a side of the headband for touching the patient's head.
Optionally, the water-absorbing layer is made of fabric or absorbent dressing.
Optionally, the waterproof layer is made of plastic or rubber.
Optionally, the patient interface apparatus is a nasal oxygen catheter, the main body comprises a nasal connector and an adapting connector installed on the nasal connector, the first moisture-extraction part is installed on the nasal connector, the gas cavity is jointly limited formed by the first part, the nasal connector and the adapting connector, the adapting connector is capable to pass gas from a gas source to the gas cavity.
Optionally, the nasal connector comprises an installation structure configured to install the adapting connector, the installation structure comprises a containing cavity with a bottom opening and a top wall and a rear wall which are configured to form the containing cavity, the first part is installed on an inner surface of the rear wall, the adapting connector comprises a shell with a top opening and a rear opening, the shell is sealed and installed in the containing cavity via the bottom opening of the installation structure, the gas cavity is formed by the shell, the top wall and the first part.
Optionally, the nasal connector comprises a nasal plug configured to insert a nasal cavity, the nasal plug is disposed to extend upward along the top wall and communicate with the gas cavity.
Optionally, the nasal connector comprises two connecting walls extending outward from two ends of a left end and a right end of the rear wall, respectively, each of the connecting walls is disposed with a via hole along its extending direction, the second part of the first moisture-extraction part is disposed to extend from one end of the first part, extend and penetrate the two connecting walls and then connect to the other end of the first part.
Another aspect of the present application provides a ventilation treatment device, the ventilation treatment device comprises a host as a gas source, a ventilation tube and the patient interface apparatus as mentioned above, and the host is connected to the patient interface apparatus through the ventilation tube.
Optionally, the ventilation treatment device comprises a second moisture-extraction part, wherein the second moisture-extraction part is installed on the ventilation tube and comprises a tube inner part located in the ventilation tube and a tube outer part located outside the ventilation tube, the second moisture-extraction part is disposed to be capable to absorb moisture in the ventilation tube and conduct the moisture to the tube outer part through the tube inner part.
Optionally, a tube wall of the ventilation tube is disposed with an opening, the tube inner part is connected to the inner wall of the ventilation tube, and the tube outer part extends out of the ventilation tube through the opening in a sealed way.
Optionally, the second moisture-extraction part is a long strip shape extending along an axial direction of the ventilation tube, the tube outer part is connected to the outer wall of the ventilation tube.
Optionally, the ventilation treatment device comprises a plurality of second moisture-extraction part, the plurality of second moisture-extraction part are disposed along a circumference of the ventilation tube.
Optionally, the ventilation tube comprises a first tube and a second tube connected to one end of the first tube, one end of the first tube away from one end of the second tube is connected to the patient interface apparatus, one end of the second tube away from one end of the first tube is connected to the host, the tube inner part is connected to the inner wall of the first tube, and the tube outer part is connected to the outer wall of the second tube.
Optionally, the second tube is a heating tube.
Optionally, the second tube is inserted and connected to the first tube, the tube outer part extends to outside of the second tube through an insertion gap between the first tube and the second tube.
Optionally, the second moisture-extraction part has a tubular shape, the outer circumference of the tube inner part is connected to the inner wall of the first tube, the outer wall of the second tube is sleeved in the tube outer part.
Optionally, the second moisture-extraction part is made of fabric or absorbent dressing.
The patient interface apparatus in the present application through disposing the first moisture-extraction part on the main body, it is capable to conduct the moisture in the gas cavity to outside of the main body, which may automatically remove condensed water in the gas cavity, thereby improving safety of ventilation treatment and reducing labor intensity of medical staffs.
Other features and advantages of the present application will be described in detail in the subsequent embodiments as following.
The attached figures are configured to provide further understanding of the present application, and being a part of the description and configured to explain the present application with the embodiments below, but do not limit the present application. In the figures:
The following is a detailed description of the embodiments of the present application in combination with the attached figures. It should be understood that the embodiments described herein are intended only to illustrate and explain the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.
In the present application, in the absence of any indication to the contrary, locational terms such as “up, down, top, bottom, left, right, rear” are generally used to refer to the orientation of the patient who is in a standing state. “Inside and outside” refers to the inside and outside of the parts relative to their own contours.
In one aspect, the present application provides a patient interface apparatus for a ventilation treatment device, wherein the patient interface apparatus includes a main body 10 and a first moisture-extraction part 20, wherein a gas cavity 101 is defined inside the main body 10 and configured to communicate with the patient's mouth and/or nose, the first moisture-extraction part 20 is installed on the main body 10, and it includes a first part 21 connected to the gas cavity 101 and a second part 22 located outside the main body 10, the first moisture-extraction part 20 is disposed to be capable to absorb moisture inside of the gas cavity 101 and conduct the moisture to the second part 22 through the first part 21.
In the mentions above, it should be noted that the first part 21 may communicate with the gas cavity 101 through various ways. For example, the first part 21 may be directly disposed inside the gas cavity 101, or it may be a part limiting the gas cavity 101. In addition, the first moisture-extraction part 20 is an integral part. Moisture in the gas cavity 101 may include water vapor in gas supplied to a patient for inhalation, water vapor in gas exhaled by the patient and condensed water generated in the gas cavity 101.
When using the product, after the first part 21 of the first moisture-extraction part 20 absorbs the moisture in the gas cavity 101, it will diffuse and conduct the moisture to the second part 22, due to the second part 22 is located at external environment of the main body 10, and the external environment humidity is low, relatively dry, so the moisture in the second part 22 is constantly evaporate to the external environment.
The patient interface apparatus of the present application is capable to export the moisture in the gas cavity 101 to the outside of the main body 10 by disposing the first moisture-extraction part 20 on the main body 10, and automatically remove the condensed water in the gas cavity 101, thus improving safety of the ventilation treatment and reducing labor intensity of medical staffs.
In the present application, the first moisture-extraction part 20 may be an additionally disposed component or may be disposed as attaching other components of the patient interface apparatus. Due to the patient interface apparatus usually includes a headband configured to fix the main body 10 to the patient's head, therefore, according to an embodiment of the present application, the first moisture-extraction part 20 may be formed as either a part of the headband or an entire headband (see
The headband will come into contact with the patient's head when the patient interface apparatus is placed on the patient's head. In order to improve the comfort of wearing the apparatus for the patient, the first moisture-extraction part 20 may include a fixed stacked water-absorbing layer 201 and a waterproof layer 202, and the waterproof layer 202 is disposed close to a side of the headband for touching the patient's head. It should be understood that the first moisture-extraction part 20 with the waterproof layer 202 mentioned above is more suitable for the situation where the first water-extraction part 20 touches the patient's head. In other embodiments, the first water-extraction part 20 may just include the water-absorbing layer 201.
In the present application, the waterproof layer 202 of the first moisture-extraction part 20 may be made of impermeable materials such as plastic or rubber and so forth. In order to improve the comfort of wearing, the waterproof layer 202 is preferably made of softer materials such as silica-gel and so forth. The water-absorbing layer 201 of the first moisture-extraction part 20 may be made of fabric or absorbent dressing, the water-absorbing layer 201 may be single or multi-layer structure. In addition, when the first part 21 is used to limit the gas cavity 101, the water-absorbing layer located in the first part 21 may be preferably provided with a characteristic of good water absorption but high permeability resistance, which may reduce the loss of gas for the patient to inhale and improve the sealing performance of the gas cavity 101. That is, the first part 21 and the second part 22 of the first water-extraction part 20 may be made of different materials.
In the present application, the patient interface apparatus may be a nasal oxygen catheter or a nasal mask, an oral-nasal mask, a full-face mask and so forth. The present application is further introduced by taking the nasal oxygen catheter as an example.
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In the mentions above, it should be understood that the nasal connector 11 is the part configured to connect to the nasal cavity of the patient; the gas source is an apparatus that produces pressurized air or breathable gas, such as a host of a ventilation treatment device. In addition, the nasal connector 11 may be made of flexible materials (such as silica-gel), the adapting connector 12 may be made of materials harder than the nasal connector 11 (such as plastic) in order to support the nasal connector 11, so that it may ensure that the nasal connector is not easy to deform while comfortable wearing it, thereby ensuring ventilation of the nasal oxygen catheter, and improving reliability of the ventilation of the nasal oxygen catheter.
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In the mentions above, the shell 121 is sealed and installed in the containing cavity, which means that there is no space between the outer wall of the shell 121 and the top wall 111 and the rear wall 112 (as referring to
In the present application, on the condition that the first moisture-extraction part 20 is formed as a headband, in order to strengthen the connection between the first moisture-extraction 20 and the nasal connector 11, as referring to
In addition, as referring to
In the present application, as referring to
In addition, in order to improve reliability of the assembly of the adapting connector 12 and the nasal connector 11, and to further improve air tightness of the nasal oxygen catheter, the nasal connector 11 may include a fixing part which configured to fix the adapting connector 12 to the installation structure.
The fixing part may be a fixing belt of which two ends are connected to the top wall 111 and the rear wall 112, respectively, to form a penetrating space which allows the adapting connector 12 to penetrate. Particularly, as referring to
Another aspect of the present application provides a ventilation treatment device, the ventilation treatment device includes the patient interface apparatus as mentioned above.
In the present application, the ventilation treatment device may be a ventilator, a high-flow treatment device and so forth.
The ventilation treatment device may also include a host as the gas source and a ventilation tube 30, the host may connect to the patient interface apparatus through the ventilation tube 30. Particularly, when the patient interface apparatus is a nasal oxygen catheter, one end of the ventilation tube 30 may be connected to a gas outlet of the host, the other end of the ventilation tube 30 may be connected to an interface 124 of the adapting connector 12 of the nasal oxygen catheter.
In the present application, the ventilation treatment device may also include a second moisture-extraction part 40, the second moisture-extraction part 40 is installed on the ventilation tube 30 and includes a tube inner part 41 located in the ventilation tube 30 and a tube outer part 42 located outside the ventilation tube 30, the second moisture-extraction part 40 is disposed to be capable to absorb moisture in the ventilation tube 30 and conduct the moisture to the tube outer part 42 through the tube inner part 41.
When using the product, after the tube inner part 41 of the second moisture-extraction part 40 absorbing the moisture in the ventilation tube 30, it will diffuse and conduct the moisture to the tube outer part 42, due to the tube outer part 42 located at external environment of the ventilation tube 30, and the external environment humidity is low, relatively dry, the moisture in the tube outer part 42 is constantly evaporate to the external environment.
In the present application, by installing the second moisture-extraction part 40 on the ventilation tube 30, condensate water formed in the gas cavity 101 of the patient interface apparatus may flow to the ventilation tube 30, and then be exported by the second moisture-extraction part 40.
It should be noted that the second moisture-extraction part 40 is a similar part to the first moisture-extraction part 20, but since the second moisture-extraction part 40 does not touch the head of the patient, the second moisture-extraction part 40 may only include water-absorbing layer, which may be a single or multi-layer structure made of fabric or absorbent dressing.
In some embodiments, in order to reduce the patient's discomfort caused by gas way dryness and so forth when using the product, the ventilation treatment device may also include a humidifying device configured for heating and humidifying gas, the gas after humidifying may be conveyed to the patient interface apparatus through the ventilation tube 30. Under this condition, the disposing of the second moisture-extraction part 40 may also prevent excessive condensed water formed by humidified gas in the ventilation tube 30 and get into the patient's respiratory tract and cause potentially risks.
According to an embodiment of the ventilation tube 30 in the present application, as referring to
For installation of the second moisture-extraction part 40, as referring to
In the present application, the second moisture-extraction part 40 may be provided with any shape. Particularly, the implementation way as referring to
Further, in order to improve extraction effect of moisture in the first tube 31, the ventilation tube 30 may include a plurality of second moisture-extraction part 40, the plurality of second moisture-extraction part 40 may be disposed along the circumference of the first tube 31.
The description above introduces the situation of that the ventilation tube 30 includes one tube (that is the first tube 31), in other embodiments of the present application, the ventilation tube 30 may be formed by connecting a plurality of tubes, under this situation, each of the tubes may be installed with the second moisture-extraction part 40, respectively, or the second moisture-extraction part 40 may be installed between two adjacent tubes.
Particularly, the embodiment as referring to
Further, as referring to
In the mentions above, the second tube 32 may be a heating tube. Under this situation, due to the tube outer part 42 of the second moisture-extraction part 40 touches the outer wall of the second tube 32, so that evaporation of moisture in the tube outer part 42 may be accelerated, thereby improving moisture extraction effect. When using the product, one end of the first tube 31 away from the second tube 32 may be connected to the patient interface apparatus, and one end of the second tube 32 away from the first tube 31 may be connected to the host.
The mentions above combining the attached figures to describe the optimized embodiments specifically, however, the present application is not limited to the specific details of the implementation ways above, in the scope of the technical concept of the present application, the technical solution may be changed in various simple variants, which are all belonging to the protection scope of the present application.
It should also be noted that the specific technical characteristics described in the above specific embodiments may be combined in any appropriate manner without contradiction. In order to avoid unnecessary repetition, the present application does not specify the possible combination ways separately.
In addition, the various embodiments of the present disclosure may also be arbitrarily combined, which shall be deemed to be the content disclosed by the present application, as long as they do not violate the idea of the present application.
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201911185587.7 | Nov 2019 | CN | national |
This application is the national phase entry of International Application No. PCT/CN2020/131318, filed on Nov. 25, 2020, which is based upon and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201911185587.7, filed on Nov. 27, 2019, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2020/131318 | 11/25/2020 | WO |