Valved ostomy drainage device

• US 7,001,367 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2003
• Issued: 02/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William W. Arkinstall
• Original Assignee: William W. Arkinstall
• Inventors: Arkinstall, William W.
• Primary Examiner(s): KENNEDY, SHARON E
• Application Number:
  US10/249,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20030220621A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 604/332, 604/334, 604/337, 604/335
• US Class Current: 604/337
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2005/4455 Implantable
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/445 Colostomy, ileostomy or urethrostomy devices A61F5/441, A61F5/442, A61F5/443 take precedence

Abstract

The valved ostomy drainage device of the present invention includes a primary conduit which may be inserted into either a colonoscopy or ileostomy. Once inserted, a balloon cuff or collar on the inner aspect of the conduit is inflated which holds the conduit in place in the ostomy. The conduit is anchored on the exterior surface of the patient by a soft, malleable ring which acts as a resilient pad seal and by an anchoring collar which mounts onto the exposed end of the conduit to sandwich the ring against the patient'"'"'s abdomen. With the collar so mounted the remaining exposed end of the conduit is adapted for sealing by the releasable mounting thereon of a rigid sealing member such as a threaded cap or other means of closure. A flexible one-way valve mounted in the conduit inhibits waste such as bowel contents or stool extruding through the conduit until the cap is removed and the one-way valve biased open by a secondary conduit inserted into the primary conduit and pushed against the one-way valve so as to open the valve.

Claims

1. A valved ostomy drainage device comprising:

hollow first and second conduits, said first conduit having first and second opposite ends, said first end having an inflatable annular anchor mounted thereto for selective inflation so as to anchor said first end with a patient'"'"'s bowel ostomy behind the abdominal wall of the patient, and wherein said second end is cylindrical and externally threaded and said first conduit is of sufficient length so that, with said anchor inflated and snug against the interior surface of the abdominal wall, a portion of said second end protrudes from the stoma,

wherein a threaded first collar is mountable onto said second end of said first conduit so that, once snugged adjacent the exterior surface of the abdomen, said inflated anchor is held snugly against the abdominal wall, and wherein, with said first collar so mounted, a length of said second end of said first conduit protrudes from said first collar, a sealing means mountable onto said second end of said first conduit to provide a removable and re-usable fluid and gas seal on said second end of said first conduit, and wherein a one-way valve is mounted in said first conduit.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said sealing means is a cap.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein said second conduit slides in a telescoping fit into said first conduit and wherein said one-way valve is resiliently biased closed by biasing means to inhibit fluid flow from said first end to said second end of said first conduit.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein said one-way valve includes one-way opening means adapted to be pushed open by insertion of said second conduit in said sliding telescoping fit into said first conduit so as to journal a first end of said second conduit through said one-way opening means of said one-way valve and into fluid communication with said first end of said first conduit.

5. The device of claim 1 further comprising an attachment means mounted on said second conduit, so that, with said sealing means removed and said second conduit inserted into said first conduit and through said one-way valve, said attachment means is mountable onto said protruding portion of said second end protruding from said first collar.

6. The device of claim 5 wherein said attachment means is a threaded second collar threadably mountable onto said protruding portion of said second end.

7. The device of claim 6 wherein said second collar when mounted onto said protruding portion is adapted to seal, by second sealing means, said sliding telescoping fit of said second conduit into said first conduit when said second collar is snugly mated onto said second end of said first conduit.

8. The device of claim 1 further comprising a resilient pad adapted to be sandwiched between said first collar and the patient'"'"'s abdomen.

9. A valved ostomy drainage device comprising a primary conduit for journalled mounting through an ostomy aperture in an abdomen, said primary conduit having an inner end for protrusion through the aperture, on the inner wall of abdomen, and an opposite outer end for protrusion outwardly of the aperture from the outer wall of the abdomen,

an inflatable cuff mounted around said inner end of said primary conduit, said primary conduit having inflation means in fluid communication between said outer end and said cuff for inflation of said cuff when adjacent the inner wall of the abdomen,

an anchoring collar releasably mountable onto said outer end of said primary conduit so as to sandwich the abdomen between said cuff, when inflated, and said anchoring collar,

a releasably mountable end seal mountable onto said outer end for releasably sealing said outer end,

a secondary conduit sized for mounting a first end thereof into and along said primary conduit, an opposite second end of said secondary conduit adapted for mounting of a waste container thereto,

a one-way valve mounted in said primary conduit for preventing flow of waste in an outflow direction from said inner end to said outer end and for allowing said secondary conduit to be inserted through said one-way valve from said outer end of said primary conduit whereby waste then flows in said outflow direction through said secondary conduit.

10. The device of claim 9 further comprising a resilient pad seal mountable onto said outer end of said primary conduit so as to seal the aperture in the abdomen when said anchoring collar is mounted onto said outer end to thereby sandwich said ring seal between said anchoring collar and the abdomen.

11. The device of claim 9 wherein said outer end is threaded and wherein said end seal is a threaded cap for threaded mounting onto said outer end.

12. The device of claim 9 wherein said one-way valve is a flap valve mounted towards said outer end of said primary conduit.

13. The device of claim 9 wherein said inflation means is an air passageway having mounted therein a one-way check valve.

14. The device of claim 9 wherein said secondary conduit is L-shaped so that said second end is disposed downwardly when said first end is mounted through said one-way valve in said primary conduit.

15. The device of claim 14 wherein said waste container is a disposable ostomy bag.

16. The device of claim 13 wherein said inflation means further includes an air conduit mounted at one end in fluid communication with said passageway and an opposite end protruding outwardly of said pad seal and anchoring collar for releasable mating to an air pressurizing means.