Indwelling urinary catheter with base drainage port

• US 6,837,868 B1
• Filed: 12/03/1998
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aleksander Fajnsztajn
• Original Assignee: Aleksander Fajnsztajn
• Inventors: Fajnsztajn, Aleksander
• Primary Examiner(s): MENDEZ, MANUEL A
• Application Number:
  US09/205,835
• Time in Patent Office: 2,224 Days
• Field of Search: 606191-194, 604/96.01, 604/101.01, 604/101.02, 604/101.03, 604/101.05, 604/101.06, 604/328, 604/913, 604/916, 604/917, 604/918
• US Class Current: 604/96.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0017 specially adapted for long-term hygiene care, e.g. urethral or indwelling catheters to prevent infections
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/04 in the body, e.g. expansible A61M25/10, A61M16/0488 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/10 Balloon catheters A61M25/0125 takes precedence; embolectomy A61B17/22032; retractors A61B17/02; inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts A61F2/958 ; stomach balloons for treatment of obesity A61F5/0003; oesophagal tubes A61J15/00

Abstract

An indwelling urinary catheter comprises a two-ply (or equivalent) air-inflatable anchoring balloon means in which an outer ply or skin thickness thereof, is not bonded to the inner ply over one or more small areal segments each measured at the intersection of the two plys radially located from the axis of symmetry of a central catheter body. Instead, when inflated, each areal segment expands mostly in a sidewise looking direction over a minimum radial arc relative to a central catheter body, to form one or more elongated lobes that are larger than and hence stabilize the catheter body relative to the entry port of the user'"'"'s bladder but leaving rigid collar regions located between adjacent segments so as to not interfere with the formation of large drainage ports therethrough. After deployment and inflation, these one or more segments are seen to provide corresponding one or more corresponding inflated lobes those size is much greater than that of the entry port of the user'"'"'s bladder to prevent the stabilize of the catheter therefrom during use. Meanwhile, since each of the rigid collar regions is of greater wall thickness than that provided the outer ply of the segments, the location of the drainage ports provided therein, relative to the entry port of the user'"'"'s bladder, can be dramatically changed, viz., the latter can also be downwardly re-located to be more closely adjacent to the entry port of the user'"'"'s bladder, than heretofore. Result: greater drainage efficiency wherein little or no residue urine stowage, occurs in the user'"'"'s bladder.

Claims

1. In an indwelling urinary catheter comprising a cylindrical fluid discharge body having an axis of symmetry, a side wall, an outlet end region and an inlet end region defining urine inlet means, an air-transference system in selective parallel operation with said fluid discharge body and balloon means positioned adjacent to said inlet means of said fluid discharge tube operatively connected to said air-transference system, the improvement in said inlet means and said balloon means comprising one or more rigid collar means having one or more drainage ports therethrough and one or more areal segments longitudinally coextensively of said collar means, each of said one or more areal segments including a flexible over-skin region and a more rigid under-skin region at different radial distances from but at a common radial direction with respect to said axis of symmetry of said discharge body wherein said over-skin region of each areal segment is adapted to expand under air pressure to form a side lobe having a selected radial expansion direction with respect to said axis of symmetry and of a size collectively sufficient to prevent dislodgement of said catheter from an user'"'"'s bladder during usage but wherein said one or more drainage ports of said one or more collar means is always longitudinally positioned in coextensive relationship with said side lobe and remains open to urine flow to thereby prevent the occurrence of residual urine stowage.

2. The improvement of claim 1 in which said side wall of said discharge body defines a circumference C in a horizontal plane normal to said axis of symmetry, in which each of said one or more areal segments intersects said horizontal plane, and in which one or more drainage ports of said one or more collar means each has an maximum opening W1 in said horizontal plane having an axis of symmetry coextensive of said horizontal plane and is adapted to remain open to fluid flow irrespective of the direction of deployment of said side lobe.

3. The improvement of claim 2 in which the number of areal segments is 1, the number of collar means is 1 and the number of drainage ports is at least 1.

4. The improvement of claim 2 in which the number of areal segments is 2, the number of collar means is 2 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 90 degrees to said expansion direct ions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

5. The improvement of claim 2 in which the number of areal segments is 3, the number of collar means is 3 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 60 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

6. The improvement of claim 2 in which the number of areal segments is 4, the number of collar means is 4 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 45 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

7. The improvement of claim 2 in which the number of areal segments is 5, the number of collar means is 5 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 36 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

8. The improvement of claim 2 in which the number of areal segments is 6, the number of collar means is 6 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 30 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

9. In an indwelling urinary catheter comprising a cylindrical fluid discharge body having an axis of symmetry, a side wall, an outlet end region and an inlet end region defining urine inlet means, an air-transference system in selective parallel operation with said fluid discharge body and balloon means positioned adjacent to said inlet means of said fluid discharge tube operatively connected to said air-transference system, the improvement in said inlet means and said balloon means comprising one or more rigid collar means having one or more drainage ports therethrough and one or more areal segments longitudinally coextensively of said collar means, each of said one or more areal segments defining a skin portion formed of a material common to that of said side wall of said discharge body and adapted to expand under air pressure to form a side lobe having a selected radial expansion direction with respect to said axis of symmetry and of a size collectively sufficient to prevent dislodgement of said catheter from an user'"'"'s bladder during usage but wherein said one or more drainage ports of said one or more collar means is always longitudinally positioned in coextensive relationship with said side lobe but always open to urine flow to thereby prevent the occurrence of residual urine stowage.

10. The improvement of claim 9 in which said side wall of said discharge body defines a circumference C in a horizontal plane normal to said axis of symmetry, in which each of said one or more areal segments intersects said horizontal plane, and in which one or more drainage ports of said one or more collar means each has an maximum opening W1 in said horizontal plane having an axis of symmetry coextensive of said horizontal plane and is adapted to remain open to fluid flow irrespective of the direction of deployment of said side lobe.

11. The improvement of claim 10 in which the number of areal segments is 1, the number of collar means is 1 and the number of drainage ports is at least 1.

12. The improvement of claim 10 in which the number of areal segments is 2, the number of collar means is 2 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 90 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

13. The improvement of claim 10 in which the number of areal segments is 3, the number of collar means is 3 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 60 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

14. The improvement of claim 10 in which the number of areal segments is 4, the number of collar means is 4 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 45 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

15. The improvement of claim 10 in which the number of areal segments is 5, the number of collar means is 5 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 36 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.

16. The improvement of claim 10 in which the number of areal segments is 6, the number of collar means is 6 and the number of drainage ports associated with each collar means is at least 1 but wherein said axes of symmetry thereof are about 30 degrees to said expansion directions of neighboring side lobes associated with said areal segments.