Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1988-03-02
1989-08-29
Truluck, Dalton L.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
128344, A61M 2500
Patent
active
048613371
ABSTRACT:
A collapsible and flexible urethral drainage catheter having a flexible tubular body portion containing a drainage lumen and an inflation lumen and having a distal tip portion with a flexibility different from the body portion with a distal end closed by an elongated cylindrical plug member sealed thereto having a segment of the wall thereof adapted when inserted into the distal end of the body portion to mate in intimate contact with the inner wall of the body portion and extending a sufficient distance into the body portion to stiffen the distal tip portion thereof, said drainage lumen communicating with drain ports in the elongated plug member and the distal tip portion of said body member and said inflation lumen communicating with an inflation cuff surrounding a portion of said distal tip portion of the body member.
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Beck Andrew J.
Garber Stanley N.
Sherwood Medical Company
Smith, Jr. Charles
Truluck Dalton L.
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