Surgery – Respiratory method or device
Patent
1995-02-06
1997-08-26
Asher, Kimberly L.
Surgery
Respiratory method or device
12820026, 12820718, 128912, 128DIG26, 12820714, 604174, A61M 1500, A61M 1600
Patent
active
056601689
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This application is a 371 of PCT/SE93/00545 filed Jun. 18, 1993.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an arrangement for the attachment of objects such as a measuring device, a sensor, a probe, a tube or the like in the mouth, nose or other orifice of a person, or to a breathing mask, a protective mask or similar kind of device having an orifice.
The measurement and recording of the body temperature is performed in hospitals and other health examination facilities for ethical, hygienic, nosocomial and practical reasons with the aid of a thermometer for oral or axillary temperature measurement. It may be difficult, however, for certain persons who are fully conscious to keep the thermometer in their mouth for a period of the between 10 and 30 seconds dung measurement. Measurement at a specific point inside the mouth is then not so easy to achieve.
It has been found that the measurement of temperature is particularly effective in the area of a person's molar teeth, at a distance from the mouth, which accordingly does not necessarily have to be fully closed in order to prevent interference with the measurement by colder air from outside etc.
The thermometer is an important clinical diagnostic instrument for the care and investigation of patients, both in out-patient and institutional medical care. Fever reactions in the patients are able to provide valuable information about the type and degree of any illness, and temperature measurements at frequent intervals provide the opportunity to study the course of illness, when the effect of any therapy, etc., used can be evaluated objectively. The resulting temperature curve is an indispensable diagnostic guide in post-operative monitoring, for which reason frequent measurement and recording of the patient's body temperature is a routine procedure in surgical wards and intensive care wards. Not only must the method of measurement be reliable, rapid and precise, but its measurement must also be simple to execute and be "pain-free" and comfortable for the patient.
Previously disclosed means for the attachment of thermometers, probes, tubes and similar objects have consisted of tape, wadding, bite blocks and the like, which have been found difficult to use with regard to their application, use and removal.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The principal object of the present invention is to make available an arrangement of the aforementioned kind, which solves said problems in a secure and pain-free fashion by simple and efficiently functioning means.
Said object is achieved by means of an arrangement which is characterized essentially in that the arrangement comprises a pressure part capable of being applied externally around an individual's body, an attachment part for an object of the kind in question, and a counter-pressure part capable of being introduced internally into said body orifice, which pressure part is so arranged as to achieve said attachment through interaction with said object or with a counter-pressure part connected to the pressure part.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention is described below as a number of preferred illustrative embodiments, in conjunction with which reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of an empty thermometer attachment arrangement of the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows the attachment arrangement with a thermometer in place and in a position ready for attachment to the body;
FIG. 3 shows the attachment arrangement of FIG. 2 in an attached position inside the mouth of a person;
FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment of the attachment arrangement of the present invention in an attached position with a temperature measurement sensor held therein;
FIG. 5 shows a side view of an arrangement in an attached position inside the mouth of a patient;
FIG. 6 shows an example of an attachment arrangement for a tube in a nose, view from the outside from the side;
FIG. 7 shows the tube attachment device in the attached position as a perspective view from
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Ottosson Paul
Sundgren Uno
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