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US 11,690,508 B2Granted
Systems and method for preventing air escape and maintaining air distension
OwnerJason Andrew Slateinventor
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Abstract
A device for preventing air escape and maintaining colonic air distension can include a body, a distal gasket coupled to a distal end of the body, a proximal gasket coupled to a proximal end of the body, and a diaphragm coupled to the proximal gasket. The distal and proximal gaskets can form a fluid-tight seal with a colonoscope positioned within central bores of the distal gasket, the body, and the proximal gasket, and the diaphragm can conform to and form a fluid-tight seal with at least one of an anus and a stoma of a subject.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- advancing a device over a distal portion of a colonoscope, the distal portion of the colonoscope being positioned outside a body of a subject, wherein an opposing proximal portion of the colonoscope is positioned within the subject through at least one of an anus or a stoma of the subject, wherein a body of the device has a longitudinal axis, an inner surface, an outer surface, a proximal end, and an opposed distal end, wherein the body defines a central bore surrounding the longitudinal axis, wherein the central bore has a diameter, wherein the device further comprises:
- at least one gasket coupled to the body of the device, wherein each gasket of the at least one gasket defines a central bore, wherein the central bore of each gasket of the at least one gasket has a diameter that is less than the diameter of the central bore of the body of the device, wherein the device is advanced over the distal portion of the colonoscope such that portions of the colonoscope pass through the central bores of each gasket of the at least one gasket and the body and a distal end of the colonoscope protrudes from the distal end of the body, wherein the at least one gasket forms a fluid-tight seal with an outer surface of the colonoscope;
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- a sealing element coupled to the proximal end of the body of the device and extending radially outwardly beyond the outer surface of the body of the device;
- further advancing the device over the colonoscope in a proximal direction toward the subject such that the sealing element of the device forms a fluid-tight seal with the at least one of the anus or the stoma of the subject;
- moving the device away from the subject in a distal direction to break the seal between the sealing element and the at least one of the anus or the stoma of the subject to allow immediate air release from the subject;
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- moving the device in a proximal direction to again engage the subject and form a fluid-tight seal between the sealing element and the at least one of the anus or the stoma of the subject,
- wherein the entire body of the device remains outside the body of the subject.
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