SELF-POSITIONING CATHETER

• Main Author: PLOEM, SVEN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 14.09.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BABY COMFORTERS; CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICALPURPOSES; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGINGPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL ORADMINISTERING FORMS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE

Catheter (10) provided with a flexible catheter tube (4) having a tip (3) of the catheter tube (4) to be introduced into the small intestines of humans or animals, the tip (3) being provided with an engagement body (1; 2) on which the peristalsis of viscera is able to engage in order to introduce the catheter (10). The engagement body is formed by at least one thickening (1; 2) provided with a bore which is in communication with the catheter tube (4). Preferably, two thickenings (1, 2) having a certain weight are attached, as a result of which an effective, as it were automatic, introduction of the catheter (10) is produced by a combination of gravity and engagement of gastric and intestinal peristalsis on the thickenings (1, 2). L'invention concerne un cathéter (10) qui comporte un tube flexible (4) pourvu d'un embout (3), à introduire dans l'intestin grêle d'humains ou d'animaux. L'embout (3) comporte un corps de contact (1, 2) qui permet de déclencher le péristaltisme intestinal et ainsi d'introduire le cathéter (10). Le corps de contact est constitué d'un moins un renflement creusé d'une lumière en communication avec le tube (4). Deux renflements (1, 2) au poids déterminé sont, de préférence, fixés au corps, ce qui permet une introduction efficace, quasi-automatique du cathéter (10), à l'aide de la gravité et au contact de l'estomac et de l'intestin sur ces renflements (1, 2) lors de leur péristaltisme.