Abstract: An anti-herpes modality system that includes a garment worn by either the male or female partner of a couple, one of whom has herpes simplex. A sheath member is removably connected to the garment by way of a biasable gripper secured to the open end of the sheath member that is adapted to fit around a toroidal lock secured to the rim of a hole in the genital area of the garment. The toroidal lock may also be biasable. The garment, sheath member, and the seal formed between them are impervious to the passage of herpes virus. Alternatively, a male garment integral with a flexible male sheath members; or a female garment integral with a flexible male sheath member are provided.

Abstract: A syringe assembly includes a syringe receiving a plunger at one end and at the other end there is an extended part which can be heat deformed to hold a ported cap member and a rotatable valve member to the syringe. The ported cap member includes ports adapted to be connected to tubes for receiving, or conveying fluid material. The ported cap member has a central opening through which the extended part extends. The rotatable valve member is located between the syringe and the ported cap member for sealingly engaging both the syringe and the ported cap member by O-ring seals therebetween. The ported cap member is non-rotatably connected to the syringe by a splined connection.

Abstract: A therapeutic heating apparatus for use in treating portions of the human body which comprises an electrical heater, a heat-conducting plate, a cotton pad and a cotton cover. The pad contains mugwart extracts and/or medicinal ingredients.

Abstract: A catheter for males having an inner and outer sheath in which a helically wound airtight tube formed on the flexible inner sheath provides an expandible and contractible compartment adapted to accommodate changes in an engaged penis.

Abstract: An ostomy pouch having a self-contained irrigator for cleaning the pouch. The pouch comprises spaced front and back walls sealed about their peripheries to define a collecting chamber and has a closable bottom opening for draining the collected contents of the pouch for disposal. An opening is provided in one of the walls for receiving the stoma of a patient. A fluid distribution tube is located within the pouch and is provided with a multiplicity of openings so that a projecting end of the tube may be connected to a source of cleansing fluid to permit the contents of the pouch to be flushed from the pouch without removing the pouch from the patient's body.

Abstract: An irrigating and aspirating handpiece for use in ophthalmic surgery includes a tubular body having a flexible irrigating sleeve mounted on a distal end thereof, a rigid tubular aspirating tip member mounted in a tip support insert disposed in the distal end of the body and extending through the irrigating sleeve, a length of flexible irrigating tubing connected with a coupling mounted on the proximal end of the body for supplying irrigating fluid through the body, a passage in the tip insert member and the irrigating sleeve to exit at a port in the distal end of the irrigating sleeve, and a length of flexible aspirating tubing extending within the irrigating tubing and connected with the proximal end of the aspirating tip member within the body for aspirating material entering through a port in the distal end of the aspirating tip member.

Abstract: A liquid drainage system comprising, a receptacle having a chamber to receive the liquid, and a support member adjacent an upper portion of the receptacle. The system has a support hook having an outwardly directed first bar, and a downwardly directed second bar extending from an outer portion of the first bar. The system has a device for pivotally connecting the hook to the support member such that the hook is movable between a first position generally perpendicular to the support member and a second position generally aligned with the support member.

Abstract: A chest drainage apparatus for draining fluid from a patient includes a collection chamber for collecting the fluid. An inlet port is in fluid communication with the collection chamber for receiving the fluid. A one-way valve is in fluid communication with the collection chamber for preventing air from entering the patient from the inlet port. A vacuum control chamber has a lower end and an upper end in fluid communication with the one-way valve. A flexible conduit has a first end fluid communication with the exterior of the apparatus and a second end movably positioned within the vacuum control chamber. Elevation adjustment apparatus connected to the flexible conduit is provided for moving the second end of the flexible conduit upwardly and downwardly to various positions within the vacuum control chamber and is activatable from the exterior of the chest drainage apparatus. A suction outlet port for communicating with a source of vacuum is in fluid communication with the vacuum control chamber.

Abstract: A suction drainage system for body cavities includes a suction collection container, and a disposable suction control chamber through which an essentially constant level of suction is applied to a body cavity. Drained fluids flow into the suction collection container, into the suction control chamber through an elastomeric check valve which precludes backflow of fluids to the patient. A pressure monitoring tube in the suction control chamber has a lower end communicating with ambient pressure and an upper end communicating with the interior of the suction control chamber. A ball in the tube rises to a level which is proportional to the negative pressure inside the suction control chamber. The suction control chamber can be removably mounted to the collection container.

Abstract: A suction catheter for sucking body fluids at surgical operations. The catheter comprises an inner and an outer tube manufactured through a coextruding procedure and which form an integrated unit. The outside of the inner tube and/or the inside of the outer tube is provided with longitudinal profilings, which form channels between the inner and outer tube. The channels communicate with the ambient air and provide an air supply to the suction channel when the catheter opening is stopped up.

Abstract: A vacuum sleeve is disclosed for removing severed tissue from a surgical site. The vacuum sleeve is used in conjunction with a surgical appliance having a cutting element and the vacuum sleeve is connected to a vacuum source. The vacuum sleeve includes an elongated body member having a distal and a proximal end. The body member defines an internal passageway which extends between the distal and proximal ends of the body member. The internal passageway removably receives therein the surgical appliance and the distal end of the body member defines a aperture such that when the surgical appliance is disposed within the internal passageway, the cutting element of the surfical appliance extends through the aperture thereby enabling the cutting element to sever tissue from the surgical site.

Abstract: A compress capable of delivering hot or cold, wet or dry temperature treatment to a person's body. The compress is formed from a pair of rectangularly shaped waterproof panels which are joined together around their peripheries to form a hollow space therebetween. One of said panels has an elongated opening to allow for the introduction of ice, hot water, a wet towel or the like and also carries a closure flap for closing the opening. The other panel has a portion thereof formed of a porous fabric material so that liquid from within the hollow space can seep therethrough. Located within the hollow space is a flexible waterproof bladder which also has an opening adjacent the opening in the panel. If a dry compress is desired, the bladder is expanded to fill the space between the panels and is filled with ice or hot water. If a wet compress is desired, the bladder is rolled or folded out of the way and ice or a hot wet towel is placed directly into the space between the panels.

Abstract: The disposable adaptor to permit aspiration and/or irrigation fluid to pass through an ultrasonic surgical instrument without permitting leakage of the fluid from or into the interior of the instrument. The adaptor includes a generally annular housing defining a lumen for receiving the horn of the ultrasonic instrument and having inner seals forming a seal between the confronting surface of the adaptor and horn for prohibiting leakage along the exterior wall of the horn and an outer seal for forming a tight seal between the confronting surface of the adaptor and the instrument shroud for prohibiting leakage along the exterior surface of the adaptor. The adaptor includes a flange at its distal end with a circumferential groove extending partially about the adaptor and cooperating with a mating projection on the distal end of the instrument shroud to provide rotational orientation for the adaptor with respect to the shroud.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a suction collection and drainage apparatus which comprises a fluid collection container and a separate tissue specimen trap container. The collection container is connected, by a tube, to a source of suction. Another tube serves to connect the collection container and the trap container together to provide fluid communication therebetween. Still another tube serves to connect the trap container to an endoscope to permit collection of tissue specimens aspirated from the patient and transmitted to the trap container. A filter is supported within the trap container and is formed having a plurality of traps and a plurality of enlarged openings spaced around the filter.

Abstract: An aspirator for removing vomit and like matter from the mouth and throat. A bellows integral with a collection reservoir includes a handle grip reciprocable alternately to draw vomit into the reservoir from an attached catheter insertable into the throat, and vent air through an exhaust valve. The bellows-reservoir unit is detachably mounted to a frame which also includes a handle grip and springs. The grips are squeezed to draw in vomit, and released to permit the springs to collapse the bellows. The operation is one-handed, the device is portable, and the bellows-reservoir unit can be separated from the frame and discarded after use. A feature is a one-way inlet valve in the catheter to prevent vomit from draining back into the throat during aspirator operation.

Abstract: An adapter comprising a channel shaped coupling member and a rib shaped coupling member connected by a continuous wall. The adapter coupling members are sized so as to fit between the body side and pouch of a two piece ostomy system.

Abstract: A manually manipulated implement and method of use thereof for facilitating the drainage of conventional ostomy pouches are disclosed. The implement includes a two-piece handle portion with an elongated engagement member extending from each, with hinge means connecting the handle pieces and engagement members of movement toward and away from one another between spaced and essentially contacting positions. When the pouch drain opening is positioned over a suitable receptacle, the pouch walls are placed between the elongated engagement members, which are then moved from the spaced position to engage the pouch walls firmly therebetween. The implement is then moved manually toward the drain opening, forcing the contents out of the pouch, into the receptacle. In the preferred embodiment the implement is of one-piece molded plastic construction and includes means for stabilizing the relative lateral position of the engagement members as the implement is moved along the pouch.

Abstract: A surgical pillow for supporting the heart or other body organs of a patient during surgical operations thereon is formed of an inner body member or filling which is readily deformable by external forces applied to the pillow, as by the patient's organ pressed thereagainst, so as to accommodate itself to the shape of such organ, and which is completely encased within an outer envelope of a thin, flaccid sheet of a synthetic plastic material impervious to air and liquid and non-absorbent of human blood and the outer surface of which is preferably of a character preventing slippage of the body organ thereon without causing irritation or contraction of the supported organ. The inner body member or filling may comprise an aggregate of particulate synthetic plastic foam material such as expanded plastic kernels or beads such as so-called micro-balloons, or it may be formed of soft, spongy, finely cellular material such as sponge rubber or a foamed spongy synthetic plastic such as polyurethane foam.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for unidirectional irrigation of at least a portion of the gastrointestinal tract between a point of access thereto and a distant or remote point of the tract. The distal end of an irrigating tube is passed through a point of access to the gastrointestinal tract to a distant point in the tract beyond which irrigation is not desired. The irrigating tube has one or more apertures formed therein only in the region substantially proximate to the distal end thereof. In the case where the portion of the tract being irrigated is not already occluded at the distant point, the tract is then occluded at that point whereupon irrigant is introduced into the irrigating tube through a proximal end thereof whereby the irrigant passes through the irrigating tube and is discharged therefrom through the aperture into the gastrointestinal tract at the region of the occluded distant point thereof and flows unidirectionally through the tract towards and out from the point of access.

Abstract: A two part coupling for joining an ostomy bag to a pad or to a faceplate is characterized in that the two cooperating coupling parts are held together in a detachable manner by magnetic force.