Dilating inflatable speculum

Abstract

An unrolling inflatable speculum comprising an insertion device, wherein said insertion device comprises a mandrel having a shaft portion and a head portion, a baffled bladder, wherein said baffled bladder comprises an open cell structure and an at least one such that access is permitted through the surface of said bladder through said opening, and an inflation mechanism, wherein said inflation mechanism is comprised of a handheld bulb-pump and an inflation line. The baffled bladder is rolled around said shaft portion and inserted into a cavity, and wherein said inflation mechanism provides for radial expansion of said baffled bladder said cavity from a rolled position to a cylindrical shape through progressively increasing the internal pressure of said baffled bladder to a pressurized state such that a lateral and radial support of said baffled bladder is provided such that said cavity does not collapse said expanded baffled bladder and such that said cavity is expanded, and wherein said baffled bladder provides for expansion of said bladder to said cylindrical shape having a maximum internal diameter.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.