Patent Application
20240091432
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The disclosure relates to catheter devices and more particularly pertains to a new catheter device for delivering and subsequently draining a rectal enema. The device includes a rectal catheter and a balloon positioned around the rectal catheter which is inflatable to seal a patient's rectum. The device includes a first injection port which inflates the balloon and a second injection port for delivering medication into the rectal catheter. A bag containing a fluid enema solution is fluidly coupled to the rectal catheter for delivering and subsequently recovering the fluid enema solution.
The prior art relates to catheter devices including an anal irrigation pump for inflating a balloon and a reservoir bag. The prior art discloses a catheter injection port device that includes a plurality of injection ports that can inflate multiple catheter balloons and inject a fluid medication. The prior art discloses a rectal catheter that is structured to buckle or fold axially and radially and which has a dumbbell shaped balloon. The prior art discloses a rectal catheter device that includes a valve for adjusting the flow of a fluid from an irrigation bag to a rectal catheter. The prior art discloses a rectal irrigation device that includes a rectal catheter, a balloon, a first pump for inflating the balloon and a second pump for delivering a fluid enema solution. The prior art discloses a rectal catheter that has a funnel shape. The prior art discloses an irrigation device that includes a stomal catheter.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a rectal catheter that has a plurality of fluid outlets and a balloon positioned around the rectal catheter. The balloon is inflatable thereby facilitating the balloon to seal a patient's rectum to inhibit fluids from leaking outwardly from the patient's rectum. A feed tube is fluidly coupled to the rectal catheter and the feed tube has a first injection port and a second injection port. The first injection port inflates the balloon and the second injection port delivers a medication into the rectal catheter. An extension tube is fluidly coupled to the feed tube and a bag is fluidly attached to the extension tube such that the bag is in fluid communication with the rectal catheter thereby facilitating the bag to deliver and subsequently receive a fluid enema solution to the rectal catheter.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A balloon 28 is positioned around the rectal catheter 12 and the balloon 28 is inflatable thereby facilitating the balloon 28 to seal the patient's rectum 16 when the rectal catheter 12 is inserted into the patient's rectum 16. In this way the balloon 28 can inhibit fluids from leaking outwardly from the patient's rectum 16. The balloon 28 has a channel 30 extending through a center of the balloon 28 and the rectal catheter 12 extends through the channel 30 such that the balloon 28 is positioned adjacent to the second end 22 of the rectal catheter 12.
A feed tube 32 is provided and the feed tube 32 is fluidly coupled to the rectal catheter 12. The feed tube 32 has a first injection port 34 for insertably receiving an injection needle 36 and the feed tube 32 has a second injection port 38 for insertably receiving an injection needle 36. The first injection port 34 is in fluid communication with the balloon 28 for inflating the balloon 28 with the injection needle 36. The second injection port 38 is in fluid communication with the rectal catheter 12 for delivering a medication from the injection needle 36 into the rectal catheter 12. The feed tube 32 has a coupling port 40 that is in fluid communication with the rectal catheter 12. Each of the first injection port 34 and the second injection port 38 angle away from an outer wall 24 of the feed tube 32 at a point that is located adjacent to the coupling port 40.
The feed tube 32 has a first conduit 42 that is fluidly coupled between the first injection port 34 and the balloon 28 and the feed tube 32 has a second conduit 44 that is fluidly coupled between the second injection port 38 and the second end 22 of the rectal catheter 12. Each of the first injection port 34 and the second injection port 38 includes a fluid lock 46 that is positionable between a closed condition or an open condition to control a flow of fluid through the fluid lock 46. The fluid lock 46 associated with each of the first injection port 34 and the second injection port 38 may comprise a Luer-lock or other similar device.
An extension tube 48 is fluidly coupled to the feed tube 32 and the extension tube 48 has a primary end 50 that is insertable into the coupling port 40 on the feed tube 32. A tube lock 52 is attached to the extension tube 48 and the tube lock 52 compresses the extension tube 48 when the tube lock 52 is closed thereby inhibiting a fluid from flowing through the extension tube 48. Conversely, the tube lock 52 is released from compressing the extension tube 48 when the tube lock 52 is open thereby facilitating the fluid to flow through the extension tube 48. The tube lock 52 may comprise an intravenous pinch clamp or other similar device commonly employed for pinching intravenous tubes.
A bag 54 is fluidly attached to the extension tube 48 such that the bag 54 is in fluid communication with the rectal catheter 12. In this way the bag 54 can deliver and subsequently receive a fluid enema solution 56 to the rectal catheter 12. A fluid port 58 that is integrated into an outer wall 60 of the bag 54 and the fluid port 58 insertably receives a secondary end 62 of the extension tube 48. A hook 64 is coupled to and extends upwardly from the bag 54 thereby facilitating the bag 54 to be suspended from a support 66 to gravity feed the fluid enema solution 56 to the rectal catheter 12. The hook 64 has a distal end 68 and a front edge 70 extending between the bag 54 and the distal end 68. The front edge 70 is concavely arcuate between the bag 54 and the distal end 68 thereby facilitating the hook 64 to conform to a rod of an intravenous bag support rack.
In use, the rectal catheter 12 is inserted into the patient's rectum 16 and an injection needle 36, such as an intravenous syringe, is attached to the first injection port 34 to inflate the balloon 28. The extension tube 48 is attached to the bag 54 to facilitate the fluid enema solution 56 to be administered to the patient. Additional medications can be injected into the second injection port 38 to be administered with the fluid enema solution 56. The fluid enema solution 56 is subsequently captured by the bag 54 when the fluid enema solution 56 drains from the patient. In this way the fluid enema solution 56 can be administered and recovered without leakage or without the need to change fluid lines or accessories in the middle of the enema. The balloon 28 is deflated and the rectal catheter 12 is removed from the patient when the fluid enema solution 56 has been recovered into the bag 54.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
