An anus blocking hollow ball insertable through an anus and thereafter inflated for blocking said anus and means extending from said ball for preventing said ball from moving deeper into said anus than desired.
A ventricular cannulation device. An inner part is placed in the cardiac chamber and an outer part is placed outside the cardiac wall. Each of the inner and outer parts is equipped with means for catching onto the cardiac wall. The inner part bears a means for guiding and attaching the outer part thereto. A tube corresponding to the opening of the cardiac wall serves as a support for an outer tube or a vascular prosthesis. A blood circulatory assistance system is provided using a bio-pump, made from the patient's muscle, and a pulse generator to stimulate the bio-pump under program control, to pump blood from the ventricle. Vascular prosthesis are used to connect the cannulation device and the bio-pump with the aorta for blood flow therethrough.
A ventricular cannulation device in which an inner part is placed in the cardiac chamber and an outer part is placed outside the cardiac wall. Each of the inner and outer parts is equipped with means for catching onto the cardiac wall. The inner part bears a means for guiding and attaching the outer part thereto. A tube corresponding to the opening of the cardiac wall serves as a support for an outer tube or a vascular prosthesis.
A continence device in the form of a cube or block of resilient foam material capable of being collapsed into a small volume condition and encapsulated in a capsule of gelatin or the like and which includes a string or cord passing through the material and connected with a traction bead engaged with a distal surface of the block or cube or foam material. The continence device provides for voluntary trapping or blockage of gastrointestinal effluent when voluntary and natural control is lacking such as when a person has had a colostomy, ileostomy, or in other situations involving fecal incontinence. A introducer is provided for inserting the capsule, the reduced volume soft foam material therein and the line or cord and traction bead into a body orifice such as a stomal orifice, anus of the like. The introducer is in the form of a tubular member, such as a straw which is passed over the cord or string and has one end engaged with the capsule and is provided with a flexible section to facilitate insertion of the device into the desired body orifice with the gelatin capsule then being dissolved in the presence of body warmth and moisture to enable the compressed soft foam material to expand to a predetermined size and shape for blockage and temporary retention of gastrointestinal content in the body orifice. Traction on the string or cord during withdrawal results in compression of the contained foam cube by means of the traction bead facilitating comfortable withdrawal of the continence device from the body orifice.
