Supra pubic catheter
OwnerMatthew Gomezinventor
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Abstract
A device for retaining a supra pubic catheter having a moveable retainer axially moveable along the catheter.
Claims18
A device for retaining a supra pubic catheter having an expansible balloon at one end of said catheter for maintaining such catheter in place and a flange slidably received by said other end of said catheter.
The combination of:
- (a) a supra pubic catheter adapted to be placed through a stomal tunnel, said catheter having one end with an inflatable balloon adapted to be inflated inside the bladder;
- (b) a device actually moveable along said catheter towards a balloon.
A method of treating a bladder comprising:
- a) placing a supra pubic catheter through a stoma in an abdomen of a patient in the bladder;
- b) inflating a balloon disposed at one end of said catheter in said bladder to maintain said one end of catheter in said bladder;
- c) moving a retainer along said catheter towards said abdomen to draw said catheter balloon against said bladder.
A system is claimed in claim 14 wherein said catheter between said balloon and said retainer is in tension.
A system is claimed in claim 15 wherein said retainer is selectively moveable along said catheter.
A system is claimed in claim 16 wherein said retainer is frictionally engaged along said catheter.
A system is claimed in claim 17 where in said catheter is substantially leak free.
The use of supra pubic catheter for a bladder compressing:
- a) inserting a supra pubic catheter through a stomal tunnel in an abdomen of a patient into the patient's bladder.
- b) inflating a balloon disposed at one end of the catheter in the bladder.
- c) moving a retainer allay the catheter toward the abdomen to draw the catheter tube against the bladder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.