Surgery – Female reproductory tract shields – supports – or birth... – Pessaries
Patent
1995-10-24
1997-10-21
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery
Female reproductory tract shields, supports, or birth...
Pessaries
128840, A61F 614, A61F 606
Patent
active
RE0356360
ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for permitting a user to load an IUD into an IUD inserter within the confines of a tray and thereafter to safely insert the IUD into a patient's uterus to the proper depth while minimizing the risk of causing trauma to the uterine wall. An IUD inserter comprises an elongated shaft adapted to retain the arms of an IUD adjacent the distal end of the shaft, a slidable arm retainer mounted on the shaft adaptable to abut the outer portion of the patient's cervix, and a stop member adjustably mounted on the shaft so that the arm retainer is forced by the outer portion of a patient's cervix to abut the stop member as the IUD is advanced through the cervical canal of a patient to a preselected depth at the uterine fundus. An associated package permits an IUD having expandable arms thereon to be loaded into an arm retainer within the confines of the package immediately prior to insertion of the IUD into a patient's uterus. When it is desirable to insert the IUS into a patient after loading same in the arm retainer of an inserter, the steps include placing the slidable retainer of an IUD inserter against the outer portion of a patient's cervix, aligning the inserter and the IUD device therein with the cervical opening, advancing the end of the inserter through the cervical canal and into the uterus to that the arm retainer abuts a stop member arranged on the elongate shaft of the inserter, and withdrawing the elongate shaft from the uterus while the IUS is left at the proper depth therein.
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Bronnenkant Lance J.
Diaz Juan
Brown Michael A.
DB Inserters, Inc.
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