An apparatus for sealing at least a portion of the urinary tract to prevent the unwanted discharge of urine includes a body member with a tubular member, encircled along its length by an overcoat layer, that encases a fluid, forming a cavity. The body member, with its tubular member and overcoat layer are elastically deformable from an initial "rest" or "relaxed" state, when outside of the body, where at least a portion of the overcoat layer is of a diameter equal to or greater than that of an u...

A body fluid measurement apparatus for continually monitoring the body fluids produced by a catheterized patient is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a discharge hose in fluid communication with the patient, a housing that supports the discharge hose, a dripping chamber for temporarily holding the body fluid while temperature and electrical conductivity measurements are made, a force transducer for producing a signal representing the weight of the body fluid mass collected, a container for coll...

A urine conducting apparatus is described which enables a woman to urinate from a standing position and which may be supported during use solely by the legs and body of the user. The urine conducting apparatus comprises an outer tapered flexible urine conductor having a wide inlet mouth contoured to envelop the perineum, and a liner adapted to fit within and cover the interior surface of the outer conductor. The inlet mouth of the conductor has a thickened rim containing embedded spring means co...

A urine metering and collection system is disclosed which includes a relatively stiff integral head member having a volume calibrated chamber with sidewalls continuously converging downwardly towards each other such that each horizontal section of the chamber has a smaller volume per unit of height than does the next adjacent upper horizontal section throughout a major portion of the length of the chamber, an outlet passageway adjacent the bottom of the chamber; an inlet passageway adjacent the ...

A device useful in medical laboratories for receiving urine and performing analyses thereof is described. In a preferred embodiment urine flows into portions on either side of a unitary housing. The two side portions are interconnected by an overflow reservoir. Urine first fills a plurality of upper compartments having preselected volume and then overflows a weir into the reservoir. In the other side portion a trough receives urine and wicks transfer a limited quantity thereof to nutrient media....

A one piece, hollow, molded plastic cap is formed with two structural portions and is secured to a container. The first portion is a blunt, bulbous protuberance extending above the major surface of the second portion. The second portion is generally dome-shaped, blending smoothly into the first portion, and has a slit communicating with the container and extending radially from the base of the bulbous protuberance toward the side wall of the cap. The bulbous protuberance is placed in the opening...

A collection device for obtaining relatively uncontaminated specimens of urine from a human female, which device comprises a liquid container, a funnel detachably secured to the container, a removable lid fitted tightly on the funnel, and a screw-on cap being mounted on the removable lid in a position to be applied to the container, after use, without violation of sterility. The removable lid closes the chamber constituted by the interior of the container and funnel, maintaining sterility until ...

A midstream urine collection device (10, 110) includes a urine receiving cup (12) into which a sample of urine is deposited. A barrel (28) is attached to the receiving cup (12) and has a receiving bore (44) therein. A needle assembly (23) is mounted in the barrel (28) in flow communication with the inside of the receiving cup (12). An evacuated container (46) is adapted to be inserted into the receiving bore (44) of the barrel (28) so that a cannula (24) of the needle assembly (23) pierces a plu...

A device and method for collecting a liquid, such as urine, with little or no contamination thereof. The device when delivered for use includes a container member, an intermediate member secured to the container and a cap member encased in a closed bag and in turn secured to the intermediate member through the bag. During use the cap member is removed from the intermediate member and placed on a convenient surface, still in the closed bag. The intermediate member has a handle which then permits ...

A lyophilized pooled normal human urine control for use in drug screening and analysis of human urine for drugs, which control is prepared from pooled normal human urine by treating said urine with a styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer resin to remove contaminants which interfere with said analysis followed by the addition of known amounts of drugs to the purified or contaminant free urine.