Abstract: A sterile closure device for a stoppered container which includes a cover member positioned over the top portion of the stopper, a shrinkable band member enclosing a peripheral portion of the cover member and the top portion of the stopper and having a pull tab portion by which the band member can be fractured and a spot of adhesive connecting the peripheral portion of the cover member to the band member such that upon fracture of the band member the cover member and tab portion will be removed together.

Abstract: A collapsible and flexible urethral drainage catheter having a flexible tubular body portion containing a drainage lumen and an inflation lumen and having a distal tip portion with a flexibility different from the body portion with a distal end closed by an elongated cylindrical plug member sealed thereto having a segment of the wall thereof adapted when inserted into the distal end of the body portion to mate in intimate contact with the inner wall of the body portion and extending a sufficient distance into the body portion to stiffen the distal tip portion thereof, said drainage lumen communicating with drain ports in the elongated plug member and the distal tip portion of said body member and said inflation lumen communicating with an inflation cuff surrounding a portion of said distal tip portion of the body member.