Method for collecting and processing body fluids
First Claim
1. In a method for obtaining information pertaining to human beings or other animals having body cavities wherein fluids from which the desired information can be derived are at least temporarily present, the steps of situating at a body cavity a means responding to presence of a fluid at the body cavity for collecting the fluid, leaving the latter means at the body cavity for a length of time sufficient to provide for collection of a quantity of fluids suitable for subsequent analysis, enclosing the collected fluid while said means remains in the body cavity in an enclosure suitable for transmittal to a laboratory or the like where the collected fluid is to be analyzed, while preventing the collected fluid in said enclosure from flowing out of said enclosure, and then analyzing the body fluid to obtain the desired information.
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Abstract
Methods for purposes such as obtaining information pertaining to human beings or other animals having body cavities wherein fluids from which desired information can be derived are at least temporarily present. A means for collecting a body fluid is introduced into the body cavity and left therein for a time sufficient to provide for collection of a quantity of fluid suitable, for example, for subsequent analysis. The fluid collected by the collecting means is enclosed in an enclosure which can then be transmitted to a laboratory or the like for subsequent analysis of the fluid.
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- 1. In a method for obtaining information pertaining to human beings or other animals having body cavities wherein fluids from which the desired information can be derived are at least temporarily present, the steps of situating at a body cavity a means responding to presence of a fluid at the body cavity for collecting the fluid, leaving the latter means at the body cavity for a length of time sufficient to provide for collection of a quantity of fluids suitable for subsequent analysis, enclosing the collected fluid while said means remains in the body cavity in an enclosure suitable for transmittal to a laboratory or the like where the collected fluid is to be analyzed, while preventing the collected fluid in said enclosure from flowing out of said enclosure, and then analyzing the body fluid to obtain the desired information.
- 20. In a method for obtaining information pertaining to human beings or other aminals having body cavities wherein fluids from which the desired information can be derived are at least temporarily present, the steps of situating at a body cavity a means for collecting a body fluid present at the cavity, leaving the latter means at the body cavity for a length of time sufficient to provide for collection of a quantity of the fluid suitable for subsequent analysis, enclosing the thus-collected fluid in an enclosure suitable for transmittal to a laboratory or the like where the collected fluid is to be analyzed, and then analyzing the body fluid to obtain the desired information, and including the step of automatically closing the enclosure after a suitable quantity of fluid has been collected therein and simultaneously with the closing step releasing to the interior of the enclosure an agent which will contact the fluid collected therein to give the fluid a predetermined condition.
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