CA1235625A - Balloon catheter, especially endotracheal catheter, with connector - Google Patents
Balloon catheter, especially endotracheal catheter, with connectorInfo
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M16/00—Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. mouth-to-mouth respiration; Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/04—Tracheal tubes
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M16/00—Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. mouth-to-mouth respiration; Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/04—Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/0434—Cuffs
- A61M16/044—External cuff pressure control or supply, e.g. synchronisation with respiration
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M16/00—Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. mouth-to-mouth respiration; Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/04—Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/0434—Cuffs
- A61M16/0454—Redundant cuffs
- A61M16/0459—Redundant cuffs one cuff behind another
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M16/00—Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. mouth-to-mouth respiration; Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/04—Tracheal tubes
- A61M16/0486—Multi-lumen tracheal tubes
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
- A61M25/10—Balloon catheters
- A61M25/1025—Connections between catheter tubes and inflation tubes
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The invention realtes to a balloon catheter, particularly an endotracheal catheter, with a catheter tube of elastic, tissue-compatible material, in which the signal balloon (6) near the proximal end (3) of catheter tube (1) and the retention sleeve (4) near the distal end (2) of catheter tube (1) are present in a foil hose (15), extending over the entire length of the catheter tube, sheathing the catheter, and they are preformed in the hose in one piece. Foil hose (15) engages loosely on the catheter tube at the points of signal balloon (6) and retention sleeve (4), and is otherwise connected tightly with the catheter tube. Feed tube (5) connecting retention sleeve (4) with signal balloon (6) and the proximal end of the catheter tube can be formed by one or more grooves (14) in the outside wall of respirator tube (1), and the foil hose (15) covers the grooves to seal them gas- and liquid-tight from the outside.
Furthermore, the balloon catheter is provided with a special fitted connector, which is particularly simple and safe to handle.
The invention realtes to a balloon catheter, particularly an endotracheal catheter, with a catheter tube of elastic, tissue-compatible material, in which the signal balloon (6) near the proximal end (3) of catheter tube (1) and the retention sleeve (4) near the distal end (2) of catheter tube (1) are present in a foil hose (15), extending over the entire length of the catheter tube, sheathing the catheter, and they are preformed in the hose in one piece. Foil hose (15) engages loosely on the catheter tube at the points of signal balloon (6) and retention sleeve (4), and is otherwise connected tightly with the catheter tube. Feed tube (5) connecting retention sleeve (4) with signal balloon (6) and the proximal end of the catheter tube can be formed by one or more grooves (14) in the outside wall of respirator tube (1), and the foil hose (15) covers the grooves to seal them gas- and liquid-tight from the outside.
Furthermore, the balloon catheter is provided with a special fitted connector, which is particularly simple and safe to handle.
Description
~2642 ~23S625 BALLOON CATHETER, PARTICULARLY AN ENDOTRACHEA~ CATHETER, WITH A CONNECTOR
The present lnvention relstes to a balloon catheter, par~icularly ln the form of an endotracheal catheter, with a cathéter tube of elastic, tissue-compatible material, for example ln the form of a respirator hose, with a beveled, open distal end and an open proximal end, and a connector, which is connected tightly with the catheter tube and if necessary is detachable.
Balloon catheters wherein the retention sleeve and signal balloon are mounted on the catheter tube and are connected with each other through one or more feed tubes and with connection fittings for the retention injector, for inflation of the retention sleeve and signal balloon, are already known.
DE-OS 26 25 570 discloses a catheter with a sleeve balloon which is inflatable through an inflation lumen (channel), which is connected through the inflation lumen with a safety or signal balloon. The principle of the construction and the method of operation of this known catheter are shown in figs. 1 to 4 of the Offenlegungsschrift. Both a sleeve balloon, in the vicinity of the distal end of the tube, and also 2 signal or safety balloon, in the vicinity of the proximal end, are found on the catheter tube. As is shown particularly in fig. 4, the air flow is fed through the feed lines in such a manner that the sleeve near the distal end is inflated first and the slgnal bslloon is filled only when the pressure in the sleeve is greater than the predetermined standard inflation pressure. The safety balloon then lies beyond the sleeve balloon in the direction of flow. That provides the advantage that no higher pressure is used during safety balloon inflation than that in the sleeve balloon. However, this construction is very costly to manufacture and thus cannot be used in practice.
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The present lnvention relstes to a balloon catheter, par~icularly ln the form of an endotracheal catheter, with a cathéter tube of elastic, tissue-compatible material, for example ln the form of a respirator hose, with a beveled, open distal end and an open proximal end, and a connector, which is connected tightly with the catheter tube and if necessary is detachable.
Balloon catheters wherein the retention sleeve and signal balloon are mounted on the catheter tube and are connected with each other through one or more feed tubes and with connection fittings for the retention injector, for inflation of the retention sleeve and signal balloon, are already known.
DE-OS 26 25 570 discloses a catheter with a sleeve balloon which is inflatable through an inflation lumen (channel), which is connected through the inflation lumen with a safety or signal balloon. The principle of the construction and the method of operation of this known catheter are shown in figs. 1 to 4 of the Offenlegungsschrift. Both a sleeve balloon, in the vicinity of the distal end of the tube, and also 2 signal or safety balloon, in the vicinity of the proximal end, are found on the catheter tube. As is shown particularly in fig. 4, the air flow is fed through the feed lines in such a manner that the sleeve near the distal end is inflated first and the slgnal bslloon is filled only when the pressure in the sleeve is greater than the predetermined standard inflation pressure. The safety balloon then lies beyond the sleeve balloon in the direction of flow. That provides the advantage that no higher pressure is used during safety balloon inflation than that in the sleeve balloon. However, this construction is very costly to manufacture and thus cannot be used in practice.
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A catheter with inflatable sleeve and siKnal balloons ls described in US-PS 35 43 759, in which, as in fig. 1 of the US patent, both balloons are arranged on the catheter tube and are connected with each other through a lumen 16 throu~h the apertures 17 and 1~ and with the side arm 25 whlch leads to the outside. The sleeve and signal balloons, particularly as shown in figs. 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the US patent, are arranged separately on the catheter tube and connected tightly with the tube. This type of construction is llkewise quite time-consuming and costly.
Balloon catheters of this and other types, e.g. as disclosed in DE-AS
15 91 793, DE-OS 19 25 852, DE-AS 22 46 526, DE~AS 24 26 344~ DE-OS 28 03 094 and DE-PS 30 28 568, are frequently used in surgery. For hygienic reasons, particularly to avoid infection in the hospital, the so-called hospital infection; each patient is treated more and more often only with new, sterile instruments, and hospitals are belng increasingly forced to provide and use balloon catheters as steril instruments to be used one time only.
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However, it has been shown that until this time the customary types of structures of balloon catheters for one use have been extraordinarily costly. An endotracheal catheter of the mQSt useful type of structure, for example, with a retention sieeve, is essentially composed of six different individual parts, including the respirator tube, the retention sleeve, the signal balloon, the ventilation tube as a connection between sleeve and signal balloon, the connector and the connection fittings with shoulders on the slgnal balloon for a retention injector. Other balloon catheters are constructed in a similar manner. The parts must be manufactured individually and then assembled and if necessary are connected tightly or permanently with each other.
Their manufacture is therefore very time-consuming and burdensome.
Therefore, an urgent need exists for balloon catheters, particularly endotracheal catheters, which can be manufactured so that the manufacturing costs ~ 3 ~ ~ ~3~ZS
of such instruments, which are to be used once only, are commercially reasonab].e.
Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide balloon catheters, particularly endotracheal catheters, which are characterized by considerably simpler and more advantageous construction than customary balloon catheters, with sleeves and signal balloons, and can be manufactured using a cost-saving method.
This is attained according to the invention by a bal.loon catheter, particularly an endotracheal catheter, with a catheter tube 1 of elastic, -tissue-compatible material, with a beveled, open distal end 2 and an open proximal end 3, with a connector 11, which is detachably or permanently connected with catheter tube 1, and inflatable retention sleeve 4 on this tube in the vicinity of the distal end 2, connected tightly with the tube, an inflatable signal balloon 6 on this tube in the vicinity of proximal tube end 3, connected tightly with the tube, and at least one feed tube 5 connecting retention sleeve 4 with signal balloon 6 and with a connection fitting with a shoulder for a retention injector, and tube 5 is tightly closed off at distal tube end 2. The catheter according to the invention is characterized in that catheter tube 1 is sheathed over its entire length on the outside by a thin foil hose 15 and this foil hose 15 engages loosely in the areas provided for retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 on the outside wall of catheter tube 1 and is flared in such a manner at these points that it can be inflated at these points through one or more feed lines 5 with feed tube openings 8 and 9 into retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6, while hose 15 is connected tightly in the other areas and tightly with catheter tube 1, that feed tube or tubes 5 which extend over the entire length of catheter tube 1 open at the proximal. end 3 into a connection opening 10 or several connection openings 10, and that connector 11 with connection fitting 12 with shoulder for catheter tube 1 has one or more connection elements to connect with ., .
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connection opening or openings l0. The reference numbers relate to figures l to 8.
One particular advantage of the balloon catheter according to the invention resides in that it is composed of only very few separate parts, including the catheter tube with sheathing foil hose, in which the retention sLeeve and signal balloon are already preshaped, as well as the connector, advantageously adapted to the shape of the balloon catheter according to the invention, with connection elements for connection with the feed tube or tubes. For low-cost manufacture of the balloon catheter according to -the invention, it is essential that retention sleeve and signal balloon be constructed as thin, inflatable parts of a foil hose which can be pulled over the catheter tube. If necessary, the foil hose can be manufactured simultaneously with and in the same manner as the catheter tube, e.g. by an extrusion process, and be mounted on the catheter tube in such a manner that the tube is tightly sheathed.
The catheter tube can be extruded in a known manner as a simple hose and sheathed thereafter with the foil hose.
Base and sheathing hoses can both consist of PVC of 80 A
Shore hardness and can be connected with each other during the sheathing by heat welding, sealing, cementing and/or tight and gas- and liquid- tight shrink-fitting. Only the areas which are provided for the retention sleeve and signal balloon do not adhere to each other, and no welding, sealing or special permanent connection occurs at these points. As a result of this, the foil hose engages only loosely on the catheter tube in these areas. If desired, the foil hose can also be formed out into a blister of desired shape and size, in the areas provided for the formation of the retention sleeve and signal balloon. A suitable parting compound for this purpose, e.g. a VC-VAC-copolymer, in which the VAC is partially saponified, is applied on the surface of the base hose before the sheathing, where the retention sleeve and ~ 5 ~ ~Z35625 signal balloon are Later to be found. No tight adherence occurs between the base hose and the foil hose, as a result of the treatment with the parting compound during the sheathing.
The parting compound can be applied with pressure or by a surrounding spraying device. The base hose must be heated before application of the parting compound, and/or also thereafter, so that the foil hose adheres well to the base hose.
The manufacture is thus greatly simplified and the balloon catheter according to the invention can be manufactured in assembly line, in which the sheathed catheter tube is produced continuously as "endless tube," e.g. by combined extrusion and extrusion-blasting processes, and can be sectioned at certain points. The mass production which is thus made possible allows much more rapid manufacture of the balloon catheter according to the invention in large quantity, so that the price per individual unit can be set sufficiently low that economical one-time use of the balloon catheter according to the invention is possible.
Retention sleeve and signal balloon are fastened permanently and gas- and liquid-tight to the catheter tube and are connected through one or more openings with the feed tube, whereby it can be blown out or ventilated.
The foil hose with preformed sleeve and balloon can be tightly connected with the catheter tube by suitable measures, for which proper selection of the material of the parts which are to be connected is important. Since both the tube and the foil hose are generally rubber, particularly soft rubber, or a synthetic polymer, such as PVC, high-pressure polyethylene or a thermoplastic polyurethane, or of highly polymerized or high molecular elastic organo-silicon-compositions, such as SilasticR they are preferably cemented together, or sealed or welded and/or connected by shrink-fitting of the foil hose with the catheter tube at the points provided for that purpose.
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The invention also relates to a connector adapted to the requirements of the balloon catheter, connected permanently with the bal]oon catheter according to the invention, but if necessary connected de-tachably.
Connectors or connection fittings with shoulders are needed as tight, permanent, but detachable connection elements between tubes or hoses of the same or different diameters, for example for the connection of a catheter tube with the feed tube of a respiratory or narcosis apparatus.
Such connectors are widely used in medical technology and in principle consist of two tube elements connected tightly with each other, which are often tapered conically toward the ends and of which the diameters are adapted to the diameters of the tubes or hoses to be connected.
In the balloon catheter according to the invention, both the catheter tube and also the feed tube or plurality of feed tubes connected with the signal balloon and the retention sleeve open at the proximal end. The connector therefore must be so configured that it simultaneously provides both the connection of the catheter tube with the desired medical apparatus, e.g. a respiratory, narcosis or suction/drainage apparatus, and also the connection of the feed tube with a suitable air supply device, e.g. an air jet, giving off a dosed volume of air, or an air pump, e.g. a retention injector. This is attained in a configuration of the balloon catheter according to the invention wherein the catheter is provided with a connector which has connection elements for connection to the one or more connection openings of the feed tube in the form of connection fittings, adjacent to a connection fitting for the proximal end of the catheter tube, and the number and arrangment of the connection fittings corresponds to the number and arrangement of the connection openings at the proximal end of the catheter tube.
This connector fulfills the requirements, but it is rather costly in manufacture and not easy and problem-free as is another and especially preferred embodiment of the _ 7 _ ~Z356~
connector, which not only can be manufactured in a simpler manner but, because of the advantageous construction, is problem-free and safe to handle.
The balloon catheter according to the invention in one especially preferred embodiment is characterized in that it is provided with a connector which has a wide tube fitting 16 and a narrow tube fitting 17, and the passage from wide tube fitting 16 to narrow tube fitting 17 is formed through a conical tubular element 25, and includes a wide tube which is arranged concentrically around narrow tube fitting 17 and is provided with a connecting tube element 22 to an air feed line, and connecting tube element 22 is connected through an annular passage 24 with the hollow cylindrical chamber 26, formed between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17, and the distance between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17 is so adapted to the wall thickness of the catheter tube 1 being inserted as to obtain a gas-tight connection. The reference numbers relate to figs.
5 to 8 hereinafter.
On the basis of its advantageous construction, this connector can be connected rapidly and without problem with the balloon catheter according to the invention. The connector according to the invention has the special advantage that it fits on the catheter tube in any desired position, with the feed tube in the wall and coming out of the wall at the end of the catheter tube, so that no canting, tilting or erroneous insertion to the side can occur. If the proximal end of the catheter tube is pushed open over the end of the narrow tube fitting until the pushed-open catheter tube is found to form a gas seal between the wide tube and the narrow tube fitting, then a sealed hollow cylindrical air chamber is formed between the end of the pushed-open catheter tube and the air inlet of the feed line coming through the connecting tube element into the hollow cylindrical chamber.
With desired positioning of the connector on the catheter ! -~L235~
tube, the air in this chamber can easily get into the feedtube found in the wall of the catheter tube. The safety in handling the connector is thus greatly increased, which is an advantage, first because of the specific, advantageous and simple construction according to the invention.
The invention is explained hereinafter in more detail relative to the examples of different embodiments of endotracheal catheters as shown in the drawings. They shcw:
Fig. 1, a side view of an embodiment of an endotracheal catheter with connector according to the invention;
Fig. 2, a transverse cross section along line 2-2, through the endotracheal catheter shown in fig. l;
Fig. 3, a transverse cross section through another embodiment of an endotracheal catheter, in which the catheter tube has a groove on the outside wall, which is covered by the sheathing foil hose;
Fig. 4, a transverse cross section of another configura-tion of an endotracheal catheter according to the invention, with 2 feed tubes in the wall of the sheathed catheter tube;
Fig. 5, a perspective view of one embodiment of the connector according to the invention;
Fig. 6, a diagrammatical longitudinal cross section through the preferred embodiment of the connector according to the invention, shown in fig. 5;
Fig. 7, a perspective view of another embodiment of the connector, and Fig. 8, a diagrammatical longitudinal cross section through an embodiment of the connector as in fig. 7.
The endotracheal catheter in fig. 1 consists of a catheter tube 1 of elastic, tissue-compatible material with a beveled and rounded open distal end 2, which can be inserted into the air tube of a patient, and an open proximal end 3, which can be connected with a respiratory or narcosis ~L23S~2S
g apparatus through a connector 11 fitted with connection fittings 12, 13, including a shoulder. Near the distal end 2 and at some distance therefrom is found an inflatable retention sleeve 4 connected permanentLy and gas- and liquid-tight with catheter tube 1.
Near the proximal end 3 of tube 1 and at some distance therefrom is found an inflatable signal balloon 6 which is a hollow cy]inder surrounding catheter tube 1 and is connected with it permanently and gas- and liquid-tight.
In the wall or on the outside of the wall of catheter tube 1, as in fig. 1, a feed tube 5 extends over its entire length, with a connection opening 10 at the proximal end of tube 1, which can be connected with a connection fitting 13 with a shoulder for a retention injector. Feed tube 5 serves for inflation and ventilation or release of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 and therefore is connected with both devices through one or more openings 8 and 9 in the areas of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6. Feed tube 5 is connected gas- and liquid-tight at the distal end 2 of respirator tube 1.
The shape and size of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 are not bound to the shapes and sizes shown in fig.
l; however, retention sleeve 4 is generally of elongated shape and is larger than signal balloon 6.
Instead of the one feed tube 5, as shown in fig. L, one could also have several, e.g. 2, 3, 4 or 6 such feed tubes, in or on the wall of catheter tube 1, which as the advantage that the air can be exchanged more rapidly between sleeve and balloon, and therefore the sleeve and balloon can be more rapidly inflated and discharged of air. A catheter tube 1 is shown in cross section in fig. 2, with one feed tube 5, and in fig. 4, a corresponding catheter tube 1 is shown in cross section with two feed tubes 5 and 5'. Also, any desired position of the feed tubes relative to each other can be determined in all cases by the technical structural conditions.
~L235~Ei25 In all of these embodiments according to the invention, catheter tube 1 is sheathed on the outside firmly and tightly over its entire length with a thin foil hose 15, and this foil hose 15 engages only loosely on the outside wall of catheter tube 1 at the points 4 and 6 provided for this purpose, and can be inflated at these points through one or more feed lines 5 with feed line openings 8 and 9 to retention sleeve 4 or to signal balloon 6.
In a specially preferred embodiment of the invention, shown in Eig. 3, one or more grooves 14 can be provided in the outside wall of catheter tube 1, which, as shown in fig.
A catheter with inflatable sleeve and siKnal balloons ls described in US-PS 35 43 759, in which, as in fig. 1 of the US patent, both balloons are arranged on the catheter tube and are connected with each other through a lumen 16 throu~h the apertures 17 and 1~ and with the side arm 25 whlch leads to the outside. The sleeve and signal balloons, particularly as shown in figs. 1, 3, 4 and 6 of the US patent, are arranged separately on the catheter tube and connected tightly with the tube. This type of construction is llkewise quite time-consuming and costly.
Balloon catheters of this and other types, e.g. as disclosed in DE-AS
15 91 793, DE-OS 19 25 852, DE-AS 22 46 526, DE~AS 24 26 344~ DE-OS 28 03 094 and DE-PS 30 28 568, are frequently used in surgery. For hygienic reasons, particularly to avoid infection in the hospital, the so-called hospital infection; each patient is treated more and more often only with new, sterile instruments, and hospitals are belng increasingly forced to provide and use balloon catheters as steril instruments to be used one time only.
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However, it has been shown that until this time the customary types of structures of balloon catheters for one use have been extraordinarily costly. An endotracheal catheter of the mQSt useful type of structure, for example, with a retention sieeve, is essentially composed of six different individual parts, including the respirator tube, the retention sleeve, the signal balloon, the ventilation tube as a connection between sleeve and signal balloon, the connector and the connection fittings with shoulders on the slgnal balloon for a retention injector. Other balloon catheters are constructed in a similar manner. The parts must be manufactured individually and then assembled and if necessary are connected tightly or permanently with each other.
Their manufacture is therefore very time-consuming and burdensome.
Therefore, an urgent need exists for balloon catheters, particularly endotracheal catheters, which can be manufactured so that the manufacturing costs ~ 3 ~ ~ ~3~ZS
of such instruments, which are to be used once only, are commercially reasonab].e.
Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide balloon catheters, particularly endotracheal catheters, which are characterized by considerably simpler and more advantageous construction than customary balloon catheters, with sleeves and signal balloons, and can be manufactured using a cost-saving method.
This is attained according to the invention by a bal.loon catheter, particularly an endotracheal catheter, with a catheter tube 1 of elastic, -tissue-compatible material, with a beveled, open distal end 2 and an open proximal end 3, with a connector 11, which is detachably or permanently connected with catheter tube 1, and inflatable retention sleeve 4 on this tube in the vicinity of the distal end 2, connected tightly with the tube, an inflatable signal balloon 6 on this tube in the vicinity of proximal tube end 3, connected tightly with the tube, and at least one feed tube 5 connecting retention sleeve 4 with signal balloon 6 and with a connection fitting with a shoulder for a retention injector, and tube 5 is tightly closed off at distal tube end 2. The catheter according to the invention is characterized in that catheter tube 1 is sheathed over its entire length on the outside by a thin foil hose 15 and this foil hose 15 engages loosely in the areas provided for retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 on the outside wall of catheter tube 1 and is flared in such a manner at these points that it can be inflated at these points through one or more feed lines 5 with feed tube openings 8 and 9 into retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6, while hose 15 is connected tightly in the other areas and tightly with catheter tube 1, that feed tube or tubes 5 which extend over the entire length of catheter tube 1 open at the proximal. end 3 into a connection opening 10 or several connection openings 10, and that connector 11 with connection fitting 12 with shoulder for catheter tube 1 has one or more connection elements to connect with ., .
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connection opening or openings l0. The reference numbers relate to figures l to 8.
One particular advantage of the balloon catheter according to the invention resides in that it is composed of only very few separate parts, including the catheter tube with sheathing foil hose, in which the retention sLeeve and signal balloon are already preshaped, as well as the connector, advantageously adapted to the shape of the balloon catheter according to the invention, with connection elements for connection with the feed tube or tubes. For low-cost manufacture of the balloon catheter according to -the invention, it is essential that retention sleeve and signal balloon be constructed as thin, inflatable parts of a foil hose which can be pulled over the catheter tube. If necessary, the foil hose can be manufactured simultaneously with and in the same manner as the catheter tube, e.g. by an extrusion process, and be mounted on the catheter tube in such a manner that the tube is tightly sheathed.
The catheter tube can be extruded in a known manner as a simple hose and sheathed thereafter with the foil hose.
Base and sheathing hoses can both consist of PVC of 80 A
Shore hardness and can be connected with each other during the sheathing by heat welding, sealing, cementing and/or tight and gas- and liquid- tight shrink-fitting. Only the areas which are provided for the retention sleeve and signal balloon do not adhere to each other, and no welding, sealing or special permanent connection occurs at these points. As a result of this, the foil hose engages only loosely on the catheter tube in these areas. If desired, the foil hose can also be formed out into a blister of desired shape and size, in the areas provided for the formation of the retention sleeve and signal balloon. A suitable parting compound for this purpose, e.g. a VC-VAC-copolymer, in which the VAC is partially saponified, is applied on the surface of the base hose before the sheathing, where the retention sleeve and ~ 5 ~ ~Z35625 signal balloon are Later to be found. No tight adherence occurs between the base hose and the foil hose, as a result of the treatment with the parting compound during the sheathing.
The parting compound can be applied with pressure or by a surrounding spraying device. The base hose must be heated before application of the parting compound, and/or also thereafter, so that the foil hose adheres well to the base hose.
The manufacture is thus greatly simplified and the balloon catheter according to the invention can be manufactured in assembly line, in which the sheathed catheter tube is produced continuously as "endless tube," e.g. by combined extrusion and extrusion-blasting processes, and can be sectioned at certain points. The mass production which is thus made possible allows much more rapid manufacture of the balloon catheter according to the invention in large quantity, so that the price per individual unit can be set sufficiently low that economical one-time use of the balloon catheter according to the invention is possible.
Retention sleeve and signal balloon are fastened permanently and gas- and liquid-tight to the catheter tube and are connected through one or more openings with the feed tube, whereby it can be blown out or ventilated.
The foil hose with preformed sleeve and balloon can be tightly connected with the catheter tube by suitable measures, for which proper selection of the material of the parts which are to be connected is important. Since both the tube and the foil hose are generally rubber, particularly soft rubber, or a synthetic polymer, such as PVC, high-pressure polyethylene or a thermoplastic polyurethane, or of highly polymerized or high molecular elastic organo-silicon-compositions, such as SilasticR they are preferably cemented together, or sealed or welded and/or connected by shrink-fitting of the foil hose with the catheter tube at the points provided for that purpose.
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The invention also relates to a connector adapted to the requirements of the balloon catheter, connected permanently with the bal]oon catheter according to the invention, but if necessary connected de-tachably.
Connectors or connection fittings with shoulders are needed as tight, permanent, but detachable connection elements between tubes or hoses of the same or different diameters, for example for the connection of a catheter tube with the feed tube of a respiratory or narcosis apparatus.
Such connectors are widely used in medical technology and in principle consist of two tube elements connected tightly with each other, which are often tapered conically toward the ends and of which the diameters are adapted to the diameters of the tubes or hoses to be connected.
In the balloon catheter according to the invention, both the catheter tube and also the feed tube or plurality of feed tubes connected with the signal balloon and the retention sleeve open at the proximal end. The connector therefore must be so configured that it simultaneously provides both the connection of the catheter tube with the desired medical apparatus, e.g. a respiratory, narcosis or suction/drainage apparatus, and also the connection of the feed tube with a suitable air supply device, e.g. an air jet, giving off a dosed volume of air, or an air pump, e.g. a retention injector. This is attained in a configuration of the balloon catheter according to the invention wherein the catheter is provided with a connector which has connection elements for connection to the one or more connection openings of the feed tube in the form of connection fittings, adjacent to a connection fitting for the proximal end of the catheter tube, and the number and arrangment of the connection fittings corresponds to the number and arrangement of the connection openings at the proximal end of the catheter tube.
This connector fulfills the requirements, but it is rather costly in manufacture and not easy and problem-free as is another and especially preferred embodiment of the _ 7 _ ~Z356~
connector, which not only can be manufactured in a simpler manner but, because of the advantageous construction, is problem-free and safe to handle.
The balloon catheter according to the invention in one especially preferred embodiment is characterized in that it is provided with a connector which has a wide tube fitting 16 and a narrow tube fitting 17, and the passage from wide tube fitting 16 to narrow tube fitting 17 is formed through a conical tubular element 25, and includes a wide tube which is arranged concentrically around narrow tube fitting 17 and is provided with a connecting tube element 22 to an air feed line, and connecting tube element 22 is connected through an annular passage 24 with the hollow cylindrical chamber 26, formed between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17, and the distance between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17 is so adapted to the wall thickness of the catheter tube 1 being inserted as to obtain a gas-tight connection. The reference numbers relate to figs.
5 to 8 hereinafter.
On the basis of its advantageous construction, this connector can be connected rapidly and without problem with the balloon catheter according to the invention. The connector according to the invention has the special advantage that it fits on the catheter tube in any desired position, with the feed tube in the wall and coming out of the wall at the end of the catheter tube, so that no canting, tilting or erroneous insertion to the side can occur. If the proximal end of the catheter tube is pushed open over the end of the narrow tube fitting until the pushed-open catheter tube is found to form a gas seal between the wide tube and the narrow tube fitting, then a sealed hollow cylindrical air chamber is formed between the end of the pushed-open catheter tube and the air inlet of the feed line coming through the connecting tube element into the hollow cylindrical chamber.
With desired positioning of the connector on the catheter ! -~L235~
tube, the air in this chamber can easily get into the feedtube found in the wall of the catheter tube. The safety in handling the connector is thus greatly increased, which is an advantage, first because of the specific, advantageous and simple construction according to the invention.
The invention is explained hereinafter in more detail relative to the examples of different embodiments of endotracheal catheters as shown in the drawings. They shcw:
Fig. 1, a side view of an embodiment of an endotracheal catheter with connector according to the invention;
Fig. 2, a transverse cross section along line 2-2, through the endotracheal catheter shown in fig. l;
Fig. 3, a transverse cross section through another embodiment of an endotracheal catheter, in which the catheter tube has a groove on the outside wall, which is covered by the sheathing foil hose;
Fig. 4, a transverse cross section of another configura-tion of an endotracheal catheter according to the invention, with 2 feed tubes in the wall of the sheathed catheter tube;
Fig. 5, a perspective view of one embodiment of the connector according to the invention;
Fig. 6, a diagrammatical longitudinal cross section through the preferred embodiment of the connector according to the invention, shown in fig. 5;
Fig. 7, a perspective view of another embodiment of the connector, and Fig. 8, a diagrammatical longitudinal cross section through an embodiment of the connector as in fig. 7.
The endotracheal catheter in fig. 1 consists of a catheter tube 1 of elastic, tissue-compatible material with a beveled and rounded open distal end 2, which can be inserted into the air tube of a patient, and an open proximal end 3, which can be connected with a respiratory or narcosis ~L23S~2S
g apparatus through a connector 11 fitted with connection fittings 12, 13, including a shoulder. Near the distal end 2 and at some distance therefrom is found an inflatable retention sleeve 4 connected permanentLy and gas- and liquid-tight with catheter tube 1.
Near the proximal end 3 of tube 1 and at some distance therefrom is found an inflatable signal balloon 6 which is a hollow cy]inder surrounding catheter tube 1 and is connected with it permanently and gas- and liquid-tight.
In the wall or on the outside of the wall of catheter tube 1, as in fig. 1, a feed tube 5 extends over its entire length, with a connection opening 10 at the proximal end of tube 1, which can be connected with a connection fitting 13 with a shoulder for a retention injector. Feed tube 5 serves for inflation and ventilation or release of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 and therefore is connected with both devices through one or more openings 8 and 9 in the areas of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6. Feed tube 5 is connected gas- and liquid-tight at the distal end 2 of respirator tube 1.
The shape and size of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 are not bound to the shapes and sizes shown in fig.
l; however, retention sleeve 4 is generally of elongated shape and is larger than signal balloon 6.
Instead of the one feed tube 5, as shown in fig. L, one could also have several, e.g. 2, 3, 4 or 6 such feed tubes, in or on the wall of catheter tube 1, which as the advantage that the air can be exchanged more rapidly between sleeve and balloon, and therefore the sleeve and balloon can be more rapidly inflated and discharged of air. A catheter tube 1 is shown in cross section in fig. 2, with one feed tube 5, and in fig. 4, a corresponding catheter tube 1 is shown in cross section with two feed tubes 5 and 5'. Also, any desired position of the feed tubes relative to each other can be determined in all cases by the technical structural conditions.
~L235~Ei25 In all of these embodiments according to the invention, catheter tube 1 is sheathed on the outside firmly and tightly over its entire length with a thin foil hose 15, and this foil hose 15 engages only loosely on the outside wall of catheter tube 1 at the points 4 and 6 provided for this purpose, and can be inflated at these points through one or more feed lines 5 with feed line openings 8 and 9 to retention sleeve 4 or to signal balloon 6.
In a specially preferred embodiment of the invention, shown in Eig. 3, one or more grooves 14 can be provided in the outside wall of catheter tube 1, which, as shown in fig.
3, are so covered by foil hose 15, tightly and firmly sheathing catheter tube 1, that one or more feed tubes 5 are thus formed. The groove is free within the areas of retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6, so that the air flowing through feed tube 5 can enter and fill sleeve 4 and balloon 6 without obstruction. This embodiment, in which retention sleeve 4 and signal balloon 6 are configured in one piece as thin, flared parts of a special foil hose 15, engaging tightly on the outside wall of catheter tube 1, and wherein one or more feed tubes 5 are formed by grooves 14 in the outside wall of catheter tube 1 and by the sheathing foil hose 15, offers special functional advantages and is especially preferred.
The foil hose, in which the retention sleeve and signal balloon are preformed, can consist of a suitably elastic and thermoplastic material, e.g. polyethylene, polyvinylchloride, latex or thermoplastic polyurethane.
Proximal end 3 of the endotracheal catheter is provided 30 with a suitably fitted connector 11. In fig. 1, connector 11 can be provided with one connection fitting 12 with a shoulder for catheter tube 1 and, corresponding to the number of feed tubes 5 in or on the wall of respirator tube 1, with a corresponding number of connection fittings 13 with shou]ders for the proximal connection openings 10 of feed tubes 5.
1~3~5 Especially preferred embodiments of the connector according to the invention are shown in figs. 5 to 8. Figs.
5 and 6 show the connector consisting of a wide tube fitting 16, a connecting tube element 22 for the air feed line, the outside continuation of the wide tube fitting 16, here indicated as a wide pipe 19, and a narrow tube fitting 17, which is arranged concentrically within wide tube 19.
The specific construction of the connector according to the invention is shown in detail in fig. 6, showing one preferred embodiment of the connector in longitudinal cross section. Wide tube fitting 16 serves for connection to the medical apparatus, e.g. a respiratory, narcosis or suction/drainage apparatus, while narrow tube fitting 17 is provided for connection to the proximal end of the catheter tube. Wide tube fitting 16 progresses in the middle of the connector into a conically tapering tube element 25, to which narrow tube fitting 17 is directly connected. Wide tube 19 is provided with connecting tube element 22, to which an air feed line can be attached, and which is connected with the hollow cylindrical chamber 26 through an annular passage 24.
When the proximal end of catheter tube 1 is inserted into hollow cylindrical chamber 26 between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17, and is pushed open on tube fitting 17, then, as a result of the adaption of the space between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17 to the wall thickness of the catheter tube, a gas-tight seal of the inserted catheter tube from the outside air is formed. The average distance between inside wall and outside wall is preferably identical to the wall thickness of the inserted catheter tube, but slight deviations from the wall thickness can be well tolerated.
So that the inserted proximal end of the catheter tube blocks off the hollow cylindrical chamber 26 from the outside air, the air flow coming through connecting tube element 22 and annular passage 24 into hollow cylindrical chamber 26 can . ~
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only get through the one or more connection openings in the end of the catheter tube into the air feed tube in the wall of the catheter tube, from whence the air flows into the signal balloon and the retention sleeve, which are thus inflated.
With the construction of the connector according to the invention, it makes no difference in what position the catheter tube is connected with the connector, because a connection between the connection openings of the air feed tube in the end of the catheter tube and the air flow into the hollow cylindrical chamber 11 exists in any desired setting.
In order to facilitate the telescoping of the catheter tube on the tube fitting 17 and to guarantee a tight seat on the tube fitting, narrow tube fitting 17 is conically tapered in the direction of end 18.
Likewise, wide tube fitting 16 is preferably configured conically widened toward the middle of the connector, whereupon a tighter and more permanent seat of the connection tube for medical apparatus is still better guaranteed.
Open end 18 of narrow tube fitting 17 can terminate in a plane with the end of wide tube 19; it can also already lie within wide tube 19, but preferably, it projects out over the end of wide tube 4.
In another preferred embodiment of the connector, the rapid, permanent, and gas-tight mounting of the proximal end of the catheter tube on narrow tube fitting 17 of the connector allows further improvement and improved operation of the connector, in that the open end of wide tube 19 is provided with an annular inside bead or inside thread 20.
Thus, the catheter tube which is pushed open is pressed tightly on the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17 and a sealing from the outside of the connection of catheter tube and connector is obtained.
Other possibilities of permanent and gas-tight connection of catheter tube and connector, such as gluing or ~23~ 5 cementing and welding, are likewise possible with suitable selection of catheter tube and connector materials, and are mainly to be considered for products to be used only once.
Furthermore, particularly when the connector is provided to be used only once, and is manufactured of a suitable plastic material, preferably by the injection molding process, further advantageous embodiments of the connector according to the invention are obtained by modification of connecting tube element 22. This generally serves for the attachment of a flexible connection fitting for air feed or for the retention injector, e.g. a Luer injector. For this purpose, the connector according to the invention is preferably provided with a connecting tube element 22 with a funnel-shaped opening adapted to a retention injector.
In another preferred embodiment, the connection tube element is provided with a check valve. This guarantees that the dosed air volume required for a certain inside pressure in the retention sleeve remains in the system, and cannot penetrate at all through connecting tube element 22.
Finally, in another advantageous configuration of the connector according to the invention, a gripping bead or one or more gripping strips can be provided on the outside wall of wide tube 19, approximately at the level of connecting tube element 22, further improving the manipulability of the connector.
Figs. 7 and 8 show other embodiments of the connector according to the invention, which come into question particularly for manufacture of the connector of a certain metal, e.g. V2A steel. Here, too, the connector consists of a wide tube fitting 16, a conically tapered tube element 25 and a narrow tube fitting 17, as well as a wide tube 19 surrounding narrow tube fitting 17 concentrically, with inside border bead 20 at the end of wide tube 19. Connecting tube element 22 for the air feed line, however, is found in an annular member 21, in the middle of the connector, over conically tapering member 25.
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Annular member 21 can be solid or, preferably, hollow.
If it is solid, it contains a tube or bore not shown in the drawings which forms the connection for the air flow from connecting tube element 22 to hollow cylindrical chamber 26.
Annular member 21 is hollow in fig. 8, so that the air can flow through connecting tube element 22 into annular hollow chamber 23 and can again be discharged through one or more passages 24 and can flow into hollow cylindrical chamber 26.
Fig. 8 shows that annular member 25 thus includes an annular hollow chamber 23, which is connected directly with connecting tube element 22 and through one or more openings or an annular passage 24 with hollow cylindrical chamber 26.
The connector according to the invention can be manufactured of any material which meets the special requirements for medical apparatuses and particularly for a medical catheter. The material particularly must be sterilizable. The selection of suitable material also depends on the intended length of use of the connector. A
durable material must be used if the article is to be used repeatedly, e.g. suitable metals, such as V2A steel, but for one-time use, less costly materials, such as certain plastics, e.g. polyolefins, particularLy polyethlene, polyethlene vinylacetate (EVA), polyvinylchloride, polystyrol, and copolymers such as SBS and ABS or even thermoplastic polyurethanes, can be used.
It is to be understood that balloon catheters according to the invention are provided particularly for use as endotracheal catheters, but that, because of their universal construction, they can also be used in various modified forms for other purposes, e.g. advantageously as heart and lung catheters or stomach probes.
Furthermore, the balloon catheter according to the invention can be provided with both a low pressure sleeve and a high pressure sleeve.
The foil hose, in which the retention sleeve and signal balloon are preformed, can consist of a suitably elastic and thermoplastic material, e.g. polyethylene, polyvinylchloride, latex or thermoplastic polyurethane.
Proximal end 3 of the endotracheal catheter is provided 30 with a suitably fitted connector 11. In fig. 1, connector 11 can be provided with one connection fitting 12 with a shoulder for catheter tube 1 and, corresponding to the number of feed tubes 5 in or on the wall of respirator tube 1, with a corresponding number of connection fittings 13 with shou]ders for the proximal connection openings 10 of feed tubes 5.
1~3~5 Especially preferred embodiments of the connector according to the invention are shown in figs. 5 to 8. Figs.
5 and 6 show the connector consisting of a wide tube fitting 16, a connecting tube element 22 for the air feed line, the outside continuation of the wide tube fitting 16, here indicated as a wide pipe 19, and a narrow tube fitting 17, which is arranged concentrically within wide tube 19.
The specific construction of the connector according to the invention is shown in detail in fig. 6, showing one preferred embodiment of the connector in longitudinal cross section. Wide tube fitting 16 serves for connection to the medical apparatus, e.g. a respiratory, narcosis or suction/drainage apparatus, while narrow tube fitting 17 is provided for connection to the proximal end of the catheter tube. Wide tube fitting 16 progresses in the middle of the connector into a conically tapering tube element 25, to which narrow tube fitting 17 is directly connected. Wide tube 19 is provided with connecting tube element 22, to which an air feed line can be attached, and which is connected with the hollow cylindrical chamber 26 through an annular passage 24.
When the proximal end of catheter tube 1 is inserted into hollow cylindrical chamber 26 between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17, and is pushed open on tube fitting 17, then, as a result of the adaption of the space between the inside wall of wide tube 19 and the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17 to the wall thickness of the catheter tube, a gas-tight seal of the inserted catheter tube from the outside air is formed. The average distance between inside wall and outside wall is preferably identical to the wall thickness of the inserted catheter tube, but slight deviations from the wall thickness can be well tolerated.
So that the inserted proximal end of the catheter tube blocks off the hollow cylindrical chamber 26 from the outside air, the air flow coming through connecting tube element 22 and annular passage 24 into hollow cylindrical chamber 26 can . ~
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only get through the one or more connection openings in the end of the catheter tube into the air feed tube in the wall of the catheter tube, from whence the air flows into the signal balloon and the retention sleeve, which are thus inflated.
With the construction of the connector according to the invention, it makes no difference in what position the catheter tube is connected with the connector, because a connection between the connection openings of the air feed tube in the end of the catheter tube and the air flow into the hollow cylindrical chamber 11 exists in any desired setting.
In order to facilitate the telescoping of the catheter tube on the tube fitting 17 and to guarantee a tight seat on the tube fitting, narrow tube fitting 17 is conically tapered in the direction of end 18.
Likewise, wide tube fitting 16 is preferably configured conically widened toward the middle of the connector, whereupon a tighter and more permanent seat of the connection tube for medical apparatus is still better guaranteed.
Open end 18 of narrow tube fitting 17 can terminate in a plane with the end of wide tube 19; it can also already lie within wide tube 19, but preferably, it projects out over the end of wide tube 4.
In another preferred embodiment of the connector, the rapid, permanent, and gas-tight mounting of the proximal end of the catheter tube on narrow tube fitting 17 of the connector allows further improvement and improved operation of the connector, in that the open end of wide tube 19 is provided with an annular inside bead or inside thread 20.
Thus, the catheter tube which is pushed open is pressed tightly on the outside wall of narrow tube fitting 17 and a sealing from the outside of the connection of catheter tube and connector is obtained.
Other possibilities of permanent and gas-tight connection of catheter tube and connector, such as gluing or ~23~ 5 cementing and welding, are likewise possible with suitable selection of catheter tube and connector materials, and are mainly to be considered for products to be used only once.
Furthermore, particularly when the connector is provided to be used only once, and is manufactured of a suitable plastic material, preferably by the injection molding process, further advantageous embodiments of the connector according to the invention are obtained by modification of connecting tube element 22. This generally serves for the attachment of a flexible connection fitting for air feed or for the retention injector, e.g. a Luer injector. For this purpose, the connector according to the invention is preferably provided with a connecting tube element 22 with a funnel-shaped opening adapted to a retention injector.
In another preferred embodiment, the connection tube element is provided with a check valve. This guarantees that the dosed air volume required for a certain inside pressure in the retention sleeve remains in the system, and cannot penetrate at all through connecting tube element 22.
Finally, in another advantageous configuration of the connector according to the invention, a gripping bead or one or more gripping strips can be provided on the outside wall of wide tube 19, approximately at the level of connecting tube element 22, further improving the manipulability of the connector.
Figs. 7 and 8 show other embodiments of the connector according to the invention, which come into question particularly for manufacture of the connector of a certain metal, e.g. V2A steel. Here, too, the connector consists of a wide tube fitting 16, a conically tapered tube element 25 and a narrow tube fitting 17, as well as a wide tube 19 surrounding narrow tube fitting 17 concentrically, with inside border bead 20 at the end of wide tube 19. Connecting tube element 22 for the air feed line, however, is found in an annular member 21, in the middle of the connector, over conically tapering member 25.
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Annular member 21 can be solid or, preferably, hollow.
If it is solid, it contains a tube or bore not shown in the drawings which forms the connection for the air flow from connecting tube element 22 to hollow cylindrical chamber 26.
Annular member 21 is hollow in fig. 8, so that the air can flow through connecting tube element 22 into annular hollow chamber 23 and can again be discharged through one or more passages 24 and can flow into hollow cylindrical chamber 26.
Fig. 8 shows that annular member 25 thus includes an annular hollow chamber 23, which is connected directly with connecting tube element 22 and through one or more openings or an annular passage 24 with hollow cylindrical chamber 26.
The connector according to the invention can be manufactured of any material which meets the special requirements for medical apparatuses and particularly for a medical catheter. The material particularly must be sterilizable. The selection of suitable material also depends on the intended length of use of the connector. A
durable material must be used if the article is to be used repeatedly, e.g. suitable metals, such as V2A steel, but for one-time use, less costly materials, such as certain plastics, e.g. polyolefins, particularLy polyethlene, polyethlene vinylacetate (EVA), polyvinylchloride, polystyrol, and copolymers such as SBS and ABS or even thermoplastic polyurethanes, can be used.
It is to be understood that balloon catheters according to the invention are provided particularly for use as endotracheal catheters, but that, because of their universal construction, they can also be used in various modified forms for other purposes, e.g. advantageously as heart and lung catheters or stomach probes.
Furthermore, the balloon catheter according to the invention can be provided with both a low pressure sleeve and a high pressure sleeve.
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OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. Balloon catheter, particularly an endotracheal catheter, comprising an elastic, tissue-compatible catheter tube (1) having an open distal end (2) and an open proximal end (3), a connector (11), connected tightly and detachably at the proximal end (3), an inflatable retention sleeve (4) and an inflatable signal balloon (6) located on said tube (1), said retention sleeve (4) being located near said distal end (2), said signal balloon (6) being located near said proximal end (3), and one or more feed lines (5) connecting retention sleeve (4) with signal balloon (6) and connection fitting (13) for a retention injector, the one or more feed lines (5) being closed off at the distal end (2) of the tube (1), characterized in that said catheter tube (1) has one or more longitudinal grooves (14) in the exterior surface thereof, said grooves extend-ing from the proximal end (3) to said signal balloon (6) to said retention sleeve (4), said catheter tube (1) being sheathed on the outside over its entire length by a thin foil hose (15), said groove(s) (14) and said foil hose (15) forming feed line(s) (5) extending from the proximal end (3) to said signal balloon (6) to said retention sleeve (4), said foil hose (15) being in tight contact with the exterior surface of said tube (1) at all points except at said groove(s) (14) and the areas provided for said retention sleeve (4) and said signal balloon (6), and said foil hose (15) being inflatable by said formed feed line(s) (5) at these areas to said retention sleeve (4) and said signal balloon (6), and that said feed line or feed lines (5) open at the proximal end (3) into a connection opening (10) or a plurality of connection openings (10), and that the connector (11) which connects to said proximal end (3), has a connection fitting (12) which engages said tube (1), and one or more connection elements (13) which connect with the said feed line(s) (5).
2. Catheter as in claim 1, characterized in that the foil hose (15) is connected with the exterior surface of cathe-ter tube (1) by cementing, sealing, welding and/or perma-nent and gas- and liquid-tight shrink-fitting except for the areas provided for the groove(s) (14), retention sleeve (4) and signal balloon (6).
3. Catheter as in claim 1, characterized in that it has a connector (11), of which the connection elements are con-figured for connection with one or more connection openings (10) of feed line(s) (5) in the shape of connection fittings (13), and the number and arrangement of connection fittings (13) corresponds to the number and arrangement of connection openings (10) at the proximal end (3) of cathe-ter tube (1).
4. Catheter as in claim 1, characterized in that it has a connector (11), comprising a wide tubular fitting (16), a conical tubular portion (25) and a narrow tubular fitting (17), said conical portion (25) connecting said wide tubu-lar fitting (16) with said narrow tubular fitting (17) to form a continuous passageway, and further a wide tubular portion (19), concentrically positioned around said narrow tubular fitting (17) such that a chamber (26) is formed between said wide tubular portion (19) and said narrow tubular fitting (17); said proximal end (3) of said tube (1) being received within said chamber (26).
5. Catheter as in claim 3, characterized in that narrow tube fitting (17) of connector (11) is conically tapered toward the end (18).
6. Catheter as in claim 5, characterized in that said con-nector (11) further includes a connecting tube element (22) having an air feed line extending from the exterior of the connector (11) to said chamber (26), said chamber having a portion with a height approximately equal to the thickness of the wall of said catheter tube (1) such that when the proximal end (3) of said tube (1) is inserted within said connector (11) the formed connection is gas-tight.
7. Catheter as in claim 6, characterized in that said narrow tubular fitting (17) has a first end connected to said wide tubular portion (19) and a second end opposite said first end, said fitting (17) tapering from said first end to said second end.
8. Catheter as in claim 7, characterized in that open end (18) of narrow tubular fitting (17) projects out over the end of wide tubular portion (19).
9. Catheter as in claim 7, characterized in that said wide tubular portion (19) has an open end and an annular bead (20) projecting inwardly at said open end.
10. Catheter as in claim 7, characterized in that said wide tubular portion (19) has an open end and a thread project-ing inwardly at said open end.
11. Catheter as in claim 6, characterized in that said connec-tor includes a check valve assembly in said air feed line of connecting tube element (22).
12. Catheter as in claim 11, characterized in that said air feed line of connecting tube element (22) includes a funnel-shaped opening fitted out for a retention injector.
13. Catheter as in claim 1, characterized in that said connec-tor (11) includes an annular portion (21) having a dia-meter greater than said wide tubular fitting (16), said annular portion (21) being adjacent said conical portion (25), said air feed line of said connecting tube element (22) extending out said annular portion (21).
14. Catheter as in claim 13, characterized in that said annular portion (21) has an annular hollow chamber (23) which is connected by a passageway to said chamber (26).
15. Catheter as in claim 1, characterized in that said foil hose (15) is flared out in the areas of said retention sleeve (4) and said signal balloon (6).
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