Catheter placement device for urethral applications
OwnerAli Osmaninventor
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Abstract
A portable hand-held medical device includes a body having a gun-type formation that includes a barrel. A guide wire device is housed in the body and is configured to advance and retract through the barrel. The guide wire device carries a bundled arrangement including a video system, an illumination system to support the video system, a fluid irrigation line, and a guide wire mechanism. The bundled arrangement is packaged as a unit in an insertion tube. The tip section of the insertion tube incorporates a camera, a light source, and a fluid irrigation port. A catheter is disposed at the end of the barrel, so that during operation the guide wire device passes through the catheter lumen. The combination guide wire device and catheter enter the urinary tract and perform a bladder evacuation process.
Claims12
A method for using a medical device to perform a bladder evacuation process, comprising the steps of:
- providing a medical device, comprising
- an instrument body including a handle portion and a barrel portion with an opening,
- an elongated tube including a lumen, an inflation port, and an inflatable balloon on a distal end of the elongated tube, wherein an end portion of the elongated tube engages the barrel portion of the instrument body,
- a guide wire assembly carried by the instrument body, the guide wire assembly comprising an insertion tube configured to be selectively advanced and retracted along at least one path of travel including the barrel portion of the instrument body, the lumen of the elongated tube, and beyond the distal end of the elongated tube, and
- at least one control switch configured to manipulate the insertion tube's movement;
- inserting the insertion tube into a urethral orifice toward a bladder;
- advancing the elongated tube into the urethral orifice, the elongated tube traveling over the insertion tube toward the bladder;
- and
- removing the insertion tube from the bladder,
- wherein removal of the insertion tube allows fluid to evacuate from the bladder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.