Abstract: A one-piece molded syringe with tethered cap is disclosed. The syringe has a hollow body having two parts, a pleated part forming a substantial part of the hollow body and a forward portion connected to the pleated part having a reduced cross-sectional area for receiving the fingers of a user. The cap is tethered to the syringe for maintaining the accessibility of the cap. A projection or pair of projections, formed integrally with the forward portion of the syringe, have a frusto-conical shape to receive the cap thereon. The projection(s) extends laterally outward from the forward portion to also serve as an abutment to prevent the syringe from rolling along a surface.

Abstract: A variable dosage dropper system improves upon the conventional dropper assembly (container, cap, pipette, bulb) by providing an annular overcap housing which completely encloses the cap and bulb to provide tamper resistant protection and has a locking collar at its lower end to secure the cap within the housing. A plunger slidably, rotatably, and sealingly mates with the housing. The plunger contacts and compresses the bulb when pushed downward toward the housing a predetermined distance corresponding to various dosages and allows the bulb to return to its decompressed position when released. The system is also adapted to resist undesired opening of the container by children.

Abstract: A hollow, molded, disposable, plastic syringe is provided with an air trap chamber in fluid communication with a collapsible container portion. With the air trap chamber extending upwardly from the container portion, air is trapped in the chamber when the container is collapsed to eject liquid out of the container.

Abstract: A dispensing package adapted for delivering medicine to a nasal cavity for absorption into the bloodstream comprises a flexible-walled container having a discharge head with a swirl chamber and a dip tube depending therefrom into the container. In use, the container is squeezed to drive liquid up the dip tube and into the swirl chamber to be discharged upwardly into the nasal cavity in the form of a fountain of relatively large droplets. The swirl chamber operates in the absence of air.

Abstract: A bulb evacuator is provided for closed wound suction having a flexible compressible container with a pair of inlets having one way valves therein and a port to a suction source with a removable cap thereon at one end of the bulb evacuator. The opposite end of the bulb evacuator is provided with an integrally formed anti-reflux valve and a latching device surrounding the anti-reflux valve. A separate collection bag can be attached to the latching device so that when the bulb evacuator is filled with fluid from a closed wound, it can be compressed to force the fluid into the attached collection chamber and simultaneously creating a suction within the bulb evacuator to promote further withdrawal of fluids from the closed wound.

Abstract: A nasal exhaler is disclosed which simply and efficiently allows for equalization of atmospheric pressure within eustachian tubes, sinus cavitites, and ear drums. The disposable exhaler includes a hollow member detachably coupled with a balloon-type inflatable bag. The hollow member is positioned over the opening of one nostril and the user exhales into the hollow member while holding the remaining nostril closed. After the process has been performed on both nostrils the passages are cleared.

Abstract: A device for use in surgical procedures formed of a concertina cartridge (1) of a resilient material. The cartridge (1) has a nozzle (5), the throat of which is designed to receive by snap-click action, a projection (9) formed internally of the chamber (1), to hold the cartridge in a collapsed, but resiliently releasable, state as it is compressed to that state under concertina action. The device has applicability to surgical procedures such as blood collection, drug infusion, and balloon catheter inflation while eliminating the dangers of bacterial infection always present when performing such procedures using devices and systems of the prior art.

Abstract: An irrigation syringe is provided which includes a barrel having an axially extending annular groove open at the proximal end for receiving the connector portion of a resilient compressible syringe bulb in tight frictional fitting relation. The syringe barrel is adapted to receive, instead of the bulb, a plunger having a piston that may be inserted into the barrel to provide a piston-type syringe so that the barrel can be used either with a syringe bulb or a syringe plunger. The inner wall of the groove has a plurality of slots so that if the syringe barrel is employed as a funnel, liquid will flow from the groove into the barrel.

Abstract: A syringe for use with collapsible ampoules pre-filled with a liquid medicament includes a body that forms an open receptacle for the ampoule and a handle attached by a hinge to one end of the body so as to be in opposed relationship with the ampoule. The handle carries a compression pad on its underside, so that the handle can be squeezed toward the body to compress the ampoule. The body has a fitting at its proximal end for the attachment of a double-ended disposable needle. When the needle is attached to the fitting, the distal end of the needle passes through the fitting and punctures the ampoule, allowing the contents of the ampoule to flow into the needle as the ampoule is compressed. In one embodiment, the handle is hinged to the proximal end of the body; in a second embodiment, it is hinged to the distal end. In both embodiments, the pad is maintained in substantially parallel alignment with the longitudinal axis of the body.

Abstract: The present invention is a bladder-type syringe which a user employs to collect blood samples or deliver prefilled medications or function as a passive indicator of balloon or cuff inflation on balloon-tipped catheter or endotracheal tubes. The bladder-type syringe includes an elongated bladder and a hypodermic needle. The elongated bladder is formed out of a high gas-diffusion barrier film and has an open end and a closed end. The hypodermic needle, which the user employs to penetrate into a blood vessel, has a sharp distal end and a blunt proximal end. A coupling device fixedly, but detachably, and fluidly couples the elongated bladder at its open end to the hypodermic needle at its blunt proximal end which extends into the coupling device to reduce its dead space. The bladder-type syringe also includes an elongated member having a first end and a second end and also having a flat surface with a keeper slot at its first end. The elongated bladder is fixedly, but detachably, coupled to the keeper slot.

Abstract: A dosing unit for delivering a measured dosage includes a dosage well positioned on the inside wall of a spray tip or neck of a squeeze bottle, a fill trough for filling the well upon tilting of the bottle in any direction, and a spray tip for delivery of the dosage which includes an orifice and a flow tube extending from the bottom of the dosage well to the spray orifice. The well may be either molded into a spray tip or molded into the neck of the bottle or a molded insert that fits into the spray tip or bottle neck.

Abstract: A prepackaged, injectable pharmaceutical hypodermic needle has semi-rigid outer container, supported within which is a substantially non-resiliant inner container containing a pre-measured dose of the pharmaceutical. A cannula extending through and fixed with respect to the outer container is adapted to pierce the inner container for injection of the pharmaceutical upon manual collapsing or squeezing of the outer container. Air flow openings in the outer container permit the flow of air into the cavity between the inner and outer containers upon manual release during successive manual compression or squeezing operations, thereby obviating the possibility of negative air pressure being exerted upon the inner container.

Abstract: A manually-operated pump element of a device for artificial respiration of uman beings. The pump element includes a gas tight, elastomeric, self-expanding and preferably elongated hollow body, as well as two connecting pieces which respectively serve as an air-inlet and air-exit opening. Two indentations are integrated into the wall of the hollow body as grasping aids. With reference to the cross section of the hollow body, the indentations are separated from one another by an angle of 100.degree. to 140.degree.. In order to apply artificial respiration to a person, the hollow body is grasped with one hand at the indentations in such a way that the palm of the hand and the fingers span the periphery of the hollow body by approximately either 120.degree. or 240.degree., as a result of which, when the hollow body is compressed with this hand, approximately one third or two thirds of the hollow body is emptied.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for introducing medicinal fluids into a living body without puncturing the skin. This is done through a root canal of a tooth. A valve device is inserted in the tooth crown and connects to a reservoir of medicinal fluid in the mouth. Pressure on the reservoir will cause fluid to pass from the reservoir through the valve device and root canal into the body tissue.

Abstract: This douche nozzle provides a linear valve which is constructed in the stem of the nozzle. This valve is closed to fluid flow when in the outer position and is open in the inner condition. The valve is made with telescoping tubular portions and a stop means is provided so that the linear valve is not accidently moved from its fluid flow stop condition and position. This nozzle is used with a collapsed flexible bag whose open end is fed through a tubular collar and the end of this bag is reversed with a short end portion brought along the outer surface of the collar. The nozzle has an enlarged end and a skirt portion which mates with and mounts on the outer portion of the collar so as to retain this bag with the nozzle.

Abstract: New injection syringe devices are formed of a partially flexible plastic bag which is filled with the solution to be injected. On one end there is a hollow injection needle sealed in. To separate the solution from the needle and to make the injection device tight during storage, a pressure release valve or special breakable seal is used.When a certain mechanical pressure is exerted on the outer side of the plastic bag the overpressure valve opens automatically or the breakable seal ruptures. With both systems it is possible to make ready-to-use prefilled injection devices consisting of a closed flexible plastic bag with the needle on one end. Pressure on the outside of the bag by hand or a mechanical device opens the junction between the plastic bag and the needle thus permitting the liquid content to be injected.

Abstract: A container cap having threads on a surface thereof is integral in one piece with a flexible bulb having a wall thickness thinner than the wall thickness of the cap. A pipette is coaxial with the cap and bulb and welded to the cap. The cap, bulb and pipette are made from a polymeric plastic.

Abstract: An improved one-piece disposable fluid-filled compressible syringe comprised of a shielding disc molded into a substantially intermediate portion of the syringe neck and lying perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the syringe to promote aseptic technique in manipulating the syringe during use. The syringe also includes an improved syringe cap comprised of a disc, perpendicularly oriented to the longitudinal axis of the syringe, a semi-circular gripping piece perpendicularly mounted to one surface of the disc and a sleeve to receive the syringe tip mounted to the disc surface opposite to the surface to which the gripping piece is attached. The disc included in the syringe cap prevents a user's fingers from contacting the syringe tip during removal or replacement of the cap.

Abstract: A disposable syringe for use in administering a medication including a flexible, compressible container, means located on said container for mounting a needle thereon, and a holder for said container that defines a means for compressing the container to eject the medication through said needle, said holder being defined by a flat flexible member having a central opening for receiving said container therein, and securing means associated with said holder for locating said container therein so that compression of said holder results in the compressing of said container to cause the medication to be ejected through said needle. In another form of the invention, a diluent contained in either a pod or container is mixed with a powdered medicated material in the container to form a preselected medicated fluid therein, the pod being removable from the container for thereafter mounting the needle thereon for the dispensing of the medicated fluid therethrough.

Abstract: This invention related to a disposable douche delivery device capable of use while seated as on a commode. The device includes preferably an outer container, in the shape of an open cage-like bulb arrangement, a disposable douche preparation container placed inside the outer container and capable of containing an effective quantity of douche preparation, a flexible retainer secured to the outer container within the outer container, and an arcuately shaped nozzle, formed with a valve, which nozzle is securable to the retainer.

Abstract: A wound drainage device is provided which includes a manually operable suction pump having inlet and outlet ports, and a pliable fluid storage bag having a pair of plastic sheets in face-to-face contact and an inlet. The pump inlet port is adapted to be connected to a wound suction catheter for removing drainage fluid from the wound. The pump outlet port is connectable to storage bag inlet for discharging drainage fluid into the storage bag without disconnecting the suction catheter. The bag has an upper foldable portion between the main storage portion and the bag inlet to close fluid communication to the bag and can serve as an added protection against drainage fluid flowing back to the suction pump. The storage bag can be used to receive drainage fluid and thereby provide a relatively large storage capacity without requiring a relatively large suction pump.

Abstract: A device for removing fluids from a wound. The device includes a housing having therein an expandable and collapsible passive member which divides the interior of the housing into a first and a second chamber. A vacuum is applied to the second chamber to draw the passive member so as to increase the volume of the first chamber and create a negative pressure therein. Conventional wound tubing connected to the first chamber permits fluids to be drawn from the wound into the first chamber. In one exemplary embodiment a bellows is placed in communication with the second chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing and dispensing a medicated douche solution includes a sealed unitary packette as one of its components and which has a predetermined volume of liquid douche concentrate stored within a sealed interior volume defined thereby. The packette is formed of thin flexible plastic material and includes a container portion in which the douche concentrate is stored and a dispenser portion integral with the container portion and which is constituted by an elongated, small diameter tubular stem which has a constant transverse cross-section throughout its length and a separable terminal tip portion. The packette is openable through separation of the terminal tip portion from the dispenser portion whereupon the dispenser portion is inserted through an opening of a bottle containing a diluent so as to extend to a significant extent into the interior thereof. The concentrate is dispensed into the diluent by squeezing the container portion of the packette.