Special receptacle or package – For a tool – Body treatment
Patent
1986-12-03
1988-07-05
Foster, Jimmy G.
Special receptacle or package
For a tool
Body treatment
206438, 383 38, B65D 8520
Patent
active
047548770
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention is related to a wetting and storage device for a catheter.
With certain categories of patients intermittent self catheterization is employed. An indwelling catheter is inconvenient to the patient and is connected with risks for damage to the urinary bladder and infections. It has been found that intermittent catheterization does away with many problems, in particular when it can be carried out by the patient. For example, with patients having certain strictures or traumas in the urinary system as well as with paralysed patients a nearly normal home living is made possible by the patient learning how to insert a catheter into the urethra and draw off urine, as required a number of times per day, whereupon the catheter is removed. A significant aid for such patients is the provision of surface coated catheters having low friction in wet condition, e.g. LoFric.RTM.. Whether conventional catheters or surface coated catheters are employed, it has hitherto been necessary for hygienic reasons to consume one catheter at each catheterization. This is however so costly that there is a risk that the method will not be very widely employed. It is thus desirable to enable a repeated use of a catheter. However, neither hygiene nor other properties of the catheter can be guaranteed if use is repeated substantially above a recommended number of use occasions.
An object of the present invention is to achieve a device enabling repeated use of a catheter, and preferably a device arranged in such way that a limited number of uses is induced. Other objects will be evident from the description below.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided a wetting and storage device for a catheter, which device comprises an elongated carrying strip provided with means for retaining a catheter. The device is characterized in that on one side of said strip there is arranged a wetting pocket closed at one end thereof, in which wetting pocket liquid may be filled and a catheter may be introduced for wetting thereof, and that on said strip there is further arranged at least one sheet, under which a catheter may be put in for storage.
According to one embodiment of the invention the sheet(s) under which a catheter may be put in for drying and storage is at least one flap of porous material on the other side of the carrying strip.
The device according to the invention may be held in a vertical position thus that the liquid may be filled into the wetting pocket and the catheter introduced therein. Preferably the carrying strip has means for suspension thereof at the end thereof proximal to the opening of the wetting pocket.
After use, the catheter may be put in under flaps of porous material on the other side of the strip. These flaps are preferably in the shape of two strips, each attached along one long edge of the carrying strip and overlapping each other.
With such surface coated catheters which have low friction in wet condition the lowering of friction is obtained by wetting in water, whereby it is usually required an addition of common salt and possibly bactericidal compounds and other additives to the water. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention the device has a space for holding a number of tablets. Said tablets are intended to be dissolved by the liquid after filling of the wetting pocket. By a tablet is meant herein, in addition to a compressed tablet, any other body comprising a substance which may be dissolved in the liquid, such as a capsule with solid or liquid contents. An especially preferred tablet is however a compressed effervescent tablet produced in a manner known per se in drug industry.
According to an especially preferred embodiment of the invention the tablets belonging to the device are placed in an additional pocket. According to an alternative preferred embodiment of the invention the tablets are placed within the wetting pocket of the device, individually enclosed in a liquid-tight protective package from which the tablets
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Johansson Eva G.
Utas-Sjoberg Jan M. R.
Astra Meditec Aktiebolag
Foster Jimmy G.
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