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Urinary drainage appliance

  • US 4,555,242 A
  • Filed: 01/19/1984
  • Issued: 11/26/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A device for draining bodily wastes from a natural or artificial bladder in a patient'"'"'s body through a stoma connected with said bladder by a passage, said device comprising:

  • conduit means insertable into said bladder through said stoma and said passage, for allowing the passage of bodily wastes from said bladder to the exterior of the body through said stoma, said conduit means having a distal end adapted to be received in said bladder and a proximal end axially spaced from said distal end so as to extend to the exterior of the body through said stoma;

    external retention means, attached to said proximal end of said conduit means, for sealing said stoma around said proximal end and forming an outlet for wastes discharged from said proximal end;

    an inflatable balloon enclosing the exterior of said conduit means along a substantially portion of its length from said distal end thereof, said balloon having a bulbous tip portion surrounding said distal end and a ribbed portion extending proximally from said tip portion, said balloon and said conduit means defining a space therebetween; and

    passage means, communicating with said space, for providing a flow path for a fluid into said space to inflate said balloon;

    said balloon having a wall which is thicker in said tip portion than in said ribbed portion so as to allow said ribbed portion to be substantially fully inflated before said tip portion is inflated when said ribbed portion is situated in said passage and said tip portion is situated in said bladder.

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