Abstract: An implant device having a passageway and an anchor means for establishing a biological anchor both formed from either pyrolitic carbon disposed or a graphite substrate or virneous carbon. The passageway having an inlet inclined with respect to the passageway outlet from between 45 and 75 degrees.

Abstract: An open ended ostomy pouch having a folding bar attached to the bottom of the pouch. The folding bar extends on both sides beyond the width of the pouch at the bottom opening and includes interlocking closure components on opposite ends.

Abstract: A fecal incontinence device in the form of an elongated collection bag having an attachment ring about an opening at one end of the bag. The ring is formed of a soft, pliable, and stretchable closed-cell thermoplastic foam, and the bag is formed from a single sheet or film of thermoplastic material that, following its attachment to the ring, is folded to provide a pair of side panels extending at right angles to the plane of the ring, such panels then being heat sealed to each other along their margins to define the finished bag. The foam attachment ring has its surface coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, and its inner and outer margins are non-concentric to define a relatively narrow perineal attachment zone. A plurality of release sheet sections cover the adhesive coating of the ring and are sequentially removable to facilitate effective attachment of the ring to a patient.

Abstract: An open ended ostomy pouch having a folding bar attached to the bottom of the pouch. The folding bar extends on both sides beyond the width of the pouch at the bottom opening and includes interlocking closure components on opposite ends.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ostomy leakage represser adapted to place a diversion pouch in good sealing engagement with a stoma implanted in the user, the represser being suitably fashioned to provide pressure along a lower surface of the stoma so as to effectively eliminate any leakage that normally occurs. The represser includes a belt connected to a body portion having substantially triangular shape, an apex of a body portion provide with a circumferential lip having in a preferred form an open gap along a top area adapted to frictionally engage an annular spacer provided on most diversion pouches, the body portion suitably formed to provide pressure on an area below the stoma so that a good seal is effected between a flanged opening on the diversion pouch while simultaneously providing a pressure area below the stoma to assure complete drainage.

Abstract: A catheter retainer comprising a member of synthetic plastics material having a central hole wholly or partly defined by a pair of resilient catheter-gripping jaws, and a resilient catch member for holding the jaws in their relatively closed position. The catheter retainer is preferably an insert that snaps into a coupling member which is carried by a pad of adhesive dressing material.