Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1988-09-22
1991-05-28
Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604276, A61M 500
Patent
active
050190563
ABSTRACT:
A bowel care system is made up of a wheeled cart unit so as to be readily transportable between a patient and bathroom for removal of waste matter from the patient by means of colonic lavage apparatus mounted on the unit, the apparatus including a fill container and waste reservoir with a fill line extending from the fill container into communication with a speculum which is insertable into the anal canal of the patient, a pump for pumping water under pressure through the speculum, a drain line also communicating with the speculum at a location downstream of the fill line with a valve between the speculum and drain line which is movable between open and closed positions in response to differential pressure between the pump and speculum, and a timer is provided for sequentially activating and deactivating the pump over predetermined time intervals so that water is supplied under pressure over a first predetermined time interval through the speculum followed by remobal of the water and waste matter via the drain line over a second predetermined time interval.
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Atchley Ray
Lee Alan R.
Mead David P.
Null Robert A.
Shilling Thomas
Aegis Medical, Inc.
Lewis William
Reilly John E.
Rosenbaum C. Fred
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