Device for supplying a liquid to a body cavity of a person or an animal and subjecting it to a determined pressure

• US 5,776,104 A
• Filed: 11/30/1995
• Issued: 07/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Promepla Sam
• Original Assignee: Erwin Zuercher, Mireille Guignard, Remi Cottenceau
• Inventors: Guignard, Mireille, Cottenceau, Remi, Zuercher, Erwin
• Primary Examiner(s): RIMELL, SAMUEL G
• Application Number:
  US08/553,531
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• Field of Search: 604/131, 604/132, 604/192, 604/147, 604/190, 128/DIG. 12, 128/DIG. 13
• US Class Current: 604/132
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3653 by Joule effect, i.e. electric resistance
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0202 with electronic control means or interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0208 before use
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0212 after use
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0216 Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/022 Volume; Flow rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0233 characterised by liquid supply means, e.g. from pressurised reservoirs
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1486 the bags being substantially completely surrounded by fluid

Abstract

A apparatus composed of a flexible bag containing a biological fluid in an enclosure sealed by a cover. The flexible bag is connected to a cavity in the human body through a tube that passes through a cover in the enclosure. In order to supply the biological fluid under an adjustable pressure to the cavity, the enclosure is connected to a source of pressurized air by means of an adjustable valve and a pressure regulator so that the pressure of the liquid in the cavity remains constant.

Claims

1. A device to facilitate endoscopic examination or operation by supplying a biological liquid to a body cavity of a person or an animal and thus pressurizing the cavity to a predetermined pressure, said device comprising:

at least one watertight and sterile flexible bag containing a biological liquid;

a watertight and sterile supply tube connecting said flexible bag to said cavity;

a means to pressurize said biological liquid supplied to said cavity, at a predetermined pressure;

an evacuation tube to empty said biological liquid from said cavity; and

a means to adjust the flow rate through said evacuation tube,

wherein, said means to pressurize said biological liquid supplied to said body cavity includes at least one watertight enclosure having rigid walls and enclosing said flexible bag, said enclosure having an access opening with watertight seal through which to insert and remove said flexible bag, said enclosure having an exit opening with a watertight seal for the exit of said supply tube from said enclosure, said enclosure having an entrance opening for introducing a source tube from a source of pressurized air, said source tube connecting said source to said watertight enclosure, and a means to adjust the pressure within said enclosure.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said watertight enclosure further includes an adjustable security valve to release abnormally high pressure.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein said watertight enclosure further includes a thermoresistant heating mechanism.

4. The device of claim 1, further including a parallepipedic housing adapted to contain said device, said housing including:

two opposed transparent walls between which are two cylindrical enclosures, having two ends which are respectively adjacent to said opposed transparent lateral walls;

sealing gaskets being located between said lateral walls and said ends of said cylindrical enclosures;

one of said lateral walls having two doors, said doors respectively opening to each of said two cylindrical enclosures, said doors each having one exit opening with a watertight seal for the exit of a supply tube from each of said cylindrical enclosures, said supply tubes distally connecting to a single, common irrigation tube.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein each of said cylindrical enclosures has walls, parallel to the longitudinal axis of each of said enclosures, an external portion of each cylindrical enclosure wall being adjacent to a thermoresistant heating mechanism.

7. The device of claim 4, wherein each of said supply tubes at the end proximate to said flexible bag further includes a strike pin which pierces said bag, and

wherein each of said supply tubes passes through a sealing plug between the strike pin and said single irrigation tube said sealing plug being located on each of said doors.

8. The device of claim 4, wherein each of said doors is closed by a toggle type fastening system.

9. The device of claim 4, further including a pressure adjustment manometer for regulating the pressure of said pressurized air from said pressurized air source, said manometer being located on said lateral transparent wall opposite said lateral transparent wall having said doors.

10. The device of claim 4, wherein said opposed, transparent lateral walls are fixed to each other by tie rods.

5. The device of clam 4, wherein said cylindrical enclosures are composed of thermal insulating material.