Nick Martino,James G. Schneider,Peter M. von Dyck,Jae Hwang Kim,John S. Minasi
申请号：
US12369572
公开号：
US08323255B2
申请日:
2009.02.11
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
A bowel management system includes a waste collection catheter having at least two distinct sections. The first section is patient proximal when disposed in the patients rectum and has durometer hardness in the range of about 50 A to about 90 A. The second catheter section is connected to the first section and has durometer hardness in the range of about 5 A to about 49 A. A selectively collapsible, substantially spherical retention balloon is attached coaxially and exterior of the first catheter section such that the proximal-most end of the retention balloon is coincident to the proximal-most end of the first section of the waste collection catheter, the substantially spherical retention balloon having an inflated size so as to be sufficiently large enough to retain the patient proximal end of the catheter in the patients rectum without being so large as to trigger a defecatory response in the patient.
