Method for disinfecting an anal irrigation system
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorIan James Rowe
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Abstract
An anal irrigation system and a method for maintenance of an anal irrigation system comprising a tube assembly is disclosed, the method comprising a container and a tube assembly, the method comprising: providing instructions instructing a user to arrange a distal end of the tube assembly in the container for forming a liquid path and to fill liquid into the container; detecting liquid in the container; initiating a disinfection procedure, the disinfection procedure comprises; circulating the liquid in the liquid path for one or more cycles, the one or more cycles comprise one or more liquid circulations; providing instructions instructing the user to discharge liquid from the liquid path.
Claims15
A method for disinfecting an anal irrigation system comprising a tube assembly having a distal end attachable to a body-insertable catheter, the method comprising:
- instructing a user using the anal irrigation system on herself or himself to take steps including:
- irrigating one of a rectum of the user and a stoma of the user with water drawn from a reservoir and discharged from the body-insertable catheter,
- removing the body-insertable catheter from a body opening of the user and removing the body-insertable catheter from the distal end of the tube assembly,
- inserting the distal end of the tube assembly into the reservoir and forming a liquid path out of the reservoir and into a proximal end of the tube assembly connected to the reservoir, through the tube assembly, and out of the distal end of the tube assembly and back into the reservoir such that the liquid path defines a closed loop circulation path within the reservoir;
- detecting, with the anal irrigation system, a disinfection liquid in the reservoir;
- instructing the user to begin initiating a disinfection procedure for disinfecting portions of the anal irrigation system previously used on herself or himself after removing the body-insertable catheter from the distal end of the tube assembly, the disinfection procedure comprising:
- circulating the disinfection liquid through the liquid path for one or more cycles;
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- instructing the user to discharge the disinfection liquid from the liquid path by withdrawing the distal end of the tube assembly from the reservoir and pumping the disinfection liquid out of the reservoir and out of the tube assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.