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US3867924A
US3867924A US329671A US32967173A US3867924A US 3867924 A US3867924 A US 3867924A US 329671 A US329671 A US 329671A US 32967173 A US32967173 A US 32967173A US 3867924 A US3867924 A US 3867924A
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Priority to BE140572A priority patent/BE810635A/xx
Priority to FR7403826A priority patent/FR2215975B1/fr
Priority to CH156074A priority patent/CH587660A5/xx
Priority to DE2405497A priority patent/DE2405497C3/de
Priority to DK60774AA priority patent/DK137885B/da
Priority to AU65231/74A priority patent/AU489470B2/en
Priority to FI318/74A priority patent/FI59201C/fi
Priority to NL7401557A priority patent/NL7401557A/xx
Priority to ES423170A priority patent/ES423170A1/es
Priority to GB566374A priority patent/GB1462071A/en
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/20—Tampons, e.g. catamenial tampons; Accessories therefor
    • A61F13/2051—Tampons, e.g. catamenial tampons; Accessories therefor characterised by the material or the structure of the inner absorbing core
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    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B10/00—Other methods or instruments for diagnosis, e.g. instruments for taking a cell sample, for biopsy, for vaccination diagnosis; Sex determination; Ovulation-period determination; Throat striking implements
    • A61B10/0045—Devices for taking samples of body liquids
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A61B5/15—Devices for taking samples of blood
    • A61B5/150007—Details
    • A61B5/150015—Source of blood
    • A61B5/150045—Source of blood for blood from vagina, placenta, colon or mouth
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A61B5/15—Devices for taking samples of blood
    • A61B5/150007—Details
    • A61B5/150053—Details for enhanced collection of blood or interstitial fluid at the sample site, e.g. by applying compression, heat, vibration, ultrasound, suction or vacuum to tissue; for reduction of pain or discomfort; Skin piercing elements, e.g. blades, needles, lancets or canulas, with adjustable piercing speed
    • A61B5/150061—Means for enhancing collection
    • A61B5/150099—Means for enhancing collection by negative pressure, other than vacuum extraction into a syringe by pulling on the piston rod or into pre-evacuated tubes
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    • A61B5/150206—Construction or design features not otherwise provided for; manufacturing or production; packages; sterilisation of piercing element, piercing device or sampling device
    • A61B5/150213—Venting means
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F5/00—Orthopaedic methods or devices for non-surgical treatment of bones or joints; Nursing devices; Anti-rape devices
    • A61F5/44—Devices worn by the patient for reception of urine, faeces, catamenial or other discharge; Portable urination aids; Colostomy devices
    • A61F5/451—Genital or anal receptacles
    • A61F5/455—Genital or anal receptacles for collecting urine or discharge from female member
    • A61F5/4553—Genital or anal receptacles for collecting urine or discharge from female member placed in the vagina, e.g. for catamenial use
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • ABSTRACT Methods and devices to be used in connection with collection and analyzing of blood.
  • a device which is capable of receiving and holding blood is introduced into the interior of a body cavity where blood is present, and after the device remains in the body cavity for a time sufficient to receive and hold blood. the device is removed and at least part. of the blood removed therewith is tested.
  • the device includes an outer holder formed with an entrance through which blood may flow freely into the interior of the holder, and within the holder is a structure such as a body of filamentary material capable of retaining blood in the interior of the holder. This device may be incorporated into a tampon introduced into the vagina for collecting blood during the menstrual cycle.
  • the present invention relates to the collection of blood.
  • a device which is capable of receiving and holding blood is introduced into the interior of a cavity of a body of a living creature, this cavity being one in which blood is in any event present.
  • the device is removed from the cavity after the device has remained therein for a period of time sufficient to receive and hold blood, which is thus removed with the device, and then at least part of the latter blood which is removed with the device from the body cavity is tested.
  • the above device of the invention includes an outer holder which is formed with an entrance means through which blood can flow into the interior of the holder, and within the interior of the holder is a retaining means which is capable of-retaining and holding the blood. According to a particular feature of the invention this device may be incorporated into a tampon inserted into the vagina during the menstrual cycle.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a device according to the invention situated within a body cavity
  • FIG. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of the device of FIG. 1 taken along line 2-2 of FIG. 1 in the direction of the arrows and showing the device at an enlarged scale;
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional elevation of another embodiment of a device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional elevation of a further embodiment of a device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic sectional elevation showing how a plurality of the devices of the invention may be incorporated into a tampon.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown schematically therein a part 10 of a body such as the body of a human being, this part having an internal cavity 12.
  • This cavity may be the vagina or any other cavity such as a sinus passage, the interior of the mouth, the passage leading from the ear, the anal canal, or the like, so that in accordance with the invention any internal body cavity where blood is encountered may be used for the purposes of the present invention.
  • a device 14 which is small enough to be comfortably received in the body cavity and retained therein while at the same time being large enough to receive and hold an amount of blood sufficient for subsequent analysis.
  • the device 14 includes an outer holder 16 in the form of a wall which is formed with an entrance means in the form of a plurality of apertures or openings 18 in the illustrated example.
  • the holder 16 is made up of a pair of complementary parts 16a and 16b which are provided with mating flanges 17 where they are joined together and where they are releasably retained in connection with each other by friction or by the use of a suitable adhesive if desired.
  • the wall 16 can be made of any material which is compatible with the human body such as any one of a number of different metals and any one of a number of different plastics which will not soften or melt at body temperature.
  • the number of openings 18 is sufficiently great to provide for free entry of blood into the interior of the holder 16.
  • a retaining means 20 which is capable of retaining the blood which flows into the interior of the holder 16 through the entrance means 18.
  • This retaining means 20 preferably takes the form of a body of filamentary material such as cotton wadding, or the like, which is also compatible with the interior of a human being.
  • a filamentary material such as a compressed body of fine gold wire, since gold is known to be compatible with human beings.
  • a metallic wire filament which does not have absorbent properties is utilized, the surface tension in the blood will cause the blood to be retained at the interstices formed in the interior of the body of compressed wire, and in addition it is to be noted that it is possible to use combinations of filamentary material such as gold wire and cotton, for example.
  • filamentary materials may be used to form the retaining means 20 such as, for example, fine monofilaments of plastic.
  • any plastic compatible with the human body such as nylon, polyesters, and the like, is readily available in fine filamentary form in which it can be compressed into a body held in the holder 16 and forming the retaining means 20.
  • FIG. 3 shows a simple receptacle 22 which may be made of any of the materials used for the wall 16 and which has the form of a simple elongated tube which is open at one end so as to be provided with an entrance means 24 through which the blood may flow freely into the interior of the receptacle 22.
  • This holder or receptacle 22 also has in its interior a retaining means 26 in the form of a compressed body of filamentary material which in the example of FIG. 3 may be cotton wadding.
  • the receptacle 22 provided with the entrance means 24 is also illustrated, but in this case there is situated within the interior of the holder 22 a retaining means 28 in the form of fine gold wire compressed as illustrated so that blood will be retained along the surface of the wire and at the interstices formed in the body of compressed filamentary material.
  • a retaining means 28 in the form of fine gold wire compressed as illustrated so that blood will be retained along the surface of the wire and at the interstices formed in the body of compressed filamentary material.
  • a tampon 30 may be used as shown in FIG. 5. This is a tampon as is conventionally used by female human beings during the menstrual cycle. Thus, the tampon 30 is introduced into the vagina during the menstrual cycle and has a string 32 extending from the tampon so that it can be removed.
  • This tampon 30 differs from a conventional tampon in that it has incorporated into the body of the tampon a plurality of the devices of the invention such as the devices 14 described above and shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • a suitable blood preservative such as citric acid, for example.
  • the device of the invention is inserted into a body cavity where blood will be encountered.
  • the tampon 30 is introduced into the vagina during the menstrual cycle.
  • any of the devices of FIGS. 14 into a cavity such as the anal canal in an individual who is suffering from hemorrhoids, for example.
  • a device such as the device 14 or the devices of FIGS. 3 and 4 in the interior of the mouth, wedged between the gums and lips, for example. It is possible to introduce the device of the invention into the ear where bleeding is encountered in the ear.
  • the device of the invention is inserted into the body cavity and is permitted to remain at the body cavity for a period of time which is sufficient to enable blood to flow freely into the interior of the holder of the device and to be retained by the retaining means therein.
  • the device is removed from the interior of the body cavity and the blood in the device can be tested in any conventional manner.
  • the two sections 16a and 16b of the device 14 are removed from each other and the means 20 may be used to smear slides which can be examined under the microscope and it can be compressed in any suitable way so as to cause the liquid blood to be compressed out of the body 20 and received in any suitable container to which additional materials are added for testing purposes, as is well known.
  • the blood which is squeezed from the retaining means may be received in a test tube which has in it a known reagent, and such test tubes are then capable of being placed in blood analyzing machines such as well known machines which optically analyze the blood.
  • an accessible cavity is intended to mean a body cavity the interior of which is accessible because of the nature of the cavity, such cavities being, for example, the vagina, the mouth, the ear, the nose, the rectum, and the like, all of which are accessible without puncturing or otherwise wounding the body and all of which may at times have internal bleeding which provides a source of blood which may be used with the present invention.
  • the term accessible is intended to cover body cavities which become accessible for reasons other than collection of blood.
  • any interior part of the body which becomes accessible due to wounding of the body by accident or due to surgical procedures are also considered to be accessible in the sense called for by the claims inasmuch as such cavities also are sources of blood which can be collected and tested although these cavities do not become accessible for the purpose of obtaining samples of blood for testing purposes.
  • a method for collecting and analyzing the blood of a living being the steps of introducing into a body of a living being whose blood is to be analyzed, at a preexisting, accessible cavity of the body which at least temporarily contains blood of the living being, a device having an interior capable of receiving and holding blood which is present in the cavity when the entire device is introduced into and remains wholly within the cavity, said device having a blood preservative preliminarily situated in its interior prior to introduction of the device into the body cavity for preserving blood which is received and held in the interior of the device, said device being introduced into said cavity at a time which will assure presence of the device in the cavity when blood is present therein, removing the latter device from the body cavity after the device has remained therein for a period of time sufficient to receive and hold blood of the living being, so that blood is removed with the device, and testing at least part of the blood thus removed from the body cavity with the device.
  • the human being is a female human being and the cavity is an internal cavity such as the vagina in which blood is present at least periodically as a result of natural functioning of a healthy being.
  • the cavity into which the device is inserted is a cavity in which blood is present as the result of a normally nonrecurring event such as an illness, an operation, or the like.
  • a tampon means and at least one device having a blood receiving interior carried by said tampon means for receiving and holding blood which is accessible in the device upon removal of the tampon means from the body cavity, said device including a blood preservative in said interior.

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US329671A US3867924A (en) 1973-02-05 1973-02-05 Internal blood collection
CA191,623A CA1038556A (en) 1973-02-05 1974-02-04 Internal blood collection
FI318/74A FI59201C (fi) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05 Foerfarande foer uppsamling av blod fraon en kroppshaola foer analysaendamaol
FR7403826A FR2215975B1 (fi) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05
CH156074A CH587660A5 (fi) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05
DE2405497A DE2405497C3 (de) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05 Vorrichtung zur Aufnahme von Blut im Inneren einer Körperhöhle eines Lebewesens
DK60774AA DK137885B (da) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05 Apparat til opsamling af blod fra et legemshulrum til analyseformål.
AU65231/74A AU489470B2 (en) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05 Internal blood collection
ZA00740761A ZA74761B (en) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05 Internal blood collection
NL7401557A NL7401557A (fi) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05
BE140572A BE810635A (fr) 1973-02-05 1974-02-05 Procede et dispositif de prelevement de sang interne
ES423170A ES423170A1 (es) 1973-02-05 1974-02-06 Procedimiento para la extraccion y analisis de sangre en elinterior de un ser viviente.
GB566374A GB1462071A (en) 1973-02-05 1974-02-07 Method and 0vice for collecting blood
IL44180A IL44180A (en) 1973-02-05 1974-02-10 Internal blood collection
US05/491,506 US3958561A (en) 1973-02-05 1974-07-24 Methods and devices for collecting body fluids
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