Plug for a wound drain

Details Plug for a wound drain Plug for a wound drain

1995-01-17

1997-12-16

Rimell, Sam

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

604256, 604167, A61M 5170

Patent

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056979118

ABSTRACT:
A plug (40) is used to plug the end of a drain tube (38). The drain tube is introduced into a patient during a medical procedure to drain the surgical site. The drain tube is introduced through an opening or incision in the patient leading to the interior of the patient's body. A medical instrument (36) is used to extract the drain tube out through the opening in the patient's body. The plug includes an elongated insertion section (42) of a cross-sectional size for slidable insertion into the end of the drain tube. The plug also includes a grasping section (48) projecting longitudinally from the insertion section and conveniently graspable by the medical instrument. The grasping section includes a tip portion (56) opposite the insertion section, and a base portion (54) located between the tip and the insertion section. The cross-sectional size of the base portion is greater than the cross-sectional size of the tip portion, wherein the cross-sectional size of the grasping section decreases in a direction extending away from the insertion section.

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