Surgery – Miscellaneous
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-01
2001-10-16
Winakur, Eric F. (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Miscellaneous
C215S386000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06302112
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the health service field and to sanitary equipment, more particularly to a device that induces a prompt recovery from hiccoughs.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the Therapeutic Handbook, hiccoughs are defined as an “involuntary spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, caused by an incipient inspiration which is suddenly controlled by the closing of the glottis which causes its characteristic noise”.
From aetiology, which studies causes of illnesses, we know that generally hiccoughs have got no medically relevant meaning and they last for not long; the cause for their occurrence is often unknown.
The pathologies wherein this phenomenon may appear are diverse. Among them there are found: epidemic encephalitis, oesophagitis, gastritis, dyspepsias, aerophagia, hepatitis, pancreatitis, peritonitis, alcoholism, mediastinum tumours, pneumonia, pleuritis and hysteric neurosis.
In any case it is a disease with a marked social impact as it does not only involve the people that are affected by it, but also those people who are close to them. To this purpose attention is for example drawn to a person who is affected by hiccoughs during a theatrical event, a concert or an opera, where silence is mandatory, or on a public means of transport.
The occurrence of persistent hiccoughs is also very annoying and problematic for several professional categories like for example singers, television programme hosts, journalists, and so on.
Persistence of hiccoughs can also stop the subject from dedicating the due attention to his professional activity, determining an increase in the possibility of accidents on the working place.
Currently, remedies can be categorised into two groups: one of a semi-empirical type and one of a therapeutical type.
A) Classical maneuvres aimed at disrupting the occurrence of hiccoughs:
1. Compression of the ocular bulbs
2. Compression with the two thumbs of the two nervi phrenici situated behind the sternoclavicular articulations.
3. Rhytmic traction of the tongue.
4. Warm and cold applications in the epigstric region.
5. Counting without breathing.
B) Symptomatic therapy:
a) Plasil (metochlorpropamide)
b) Largactil (Chlorpromazin)
c) Magistral solution with an analgesic action localised to the gastric mucose (a tablespoon in the evening) based on sulphurous ether (g 3.0)+mint water (70.0 g)+distilled water (70.0 g)+syrups of various nature (45.0 g).
d) Application of high frequency current or ultrasounds or 0.5% procain to the nervus phrenicus at neck's height.
e) surgical lesion of one of the two nervi phrenici.
f) Tranquillisers (in their hysteric base forms).
Said remedies are almost always annoying and heavy for anyone and they become real tortures for children, particularly for those who are not self-sufficient.
Besides that, said remedies do not often accomplish their aim, to the detriment of the subjects affected by the disease, and at times even of those that are around them.
Unfortunately, after weaning, not all toddlers are able to execute what adults have told them to do. This also happens in the case of adults that suffer from bad physical and/or psychiatric handicaps.
Furthermore it is known that in certain cases hiccoughs can last for several hours, if not even days.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A first aim of the present invention is therefore that of providing a device which is able to rapidly induce recovery from hiccoughs both in adults and children and in people who are not self-sufficient.
A second aim of the present invention is that of finding an absolutely atoxic device that guarantees the highest safety when used in the food industry field.
The inventor started from the observation that a liquid of any type contained in a container provided with a choking corresponding to the outlet hole (a bottle for example), is poured, and a whirl and some turbulences form and give way to extremely small air sacks.
It is clear that if the container's outlet consists of a choking provided with more than one hole, pouring its content many whirls will form and the ensuing development of air-sacks will be proportional to the number of holes present in the structure.
Having well clarified that point, recalling the empirical remedies traditionally proposed up to that moment and following the experiments that he has carried out, he surprisingly observed that if a subject effected by hiccoughs takes a few sips of a liquid, preferably water, from a glass wherein there is found to be placed a device consisting of circular disk with holes on which a straight cylindrical stick or peg is fixed, hiccoughs disappear after a few seconds.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a device made of an atoxic material, preferably made of steel, comprising a punched circular disk on which a straight cylindrical stick or peg is fixed.
According to a peculiar aspect of the present invention the disk and the peg have got parallel but not coinciding axes. This to the purpose of preventing turbulence from swirling when the liquid passes through each single hole of said disk.
Advantageously, the present invention which is described in the foregoing can be applied and used in situations of whatever type, in a rapid manner. Furthermore it is devoid of counterindications.
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Veniaminov Nikita R
Winakur Eric F.
Young & Thompson
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