A - Human Necessities – 61 – F
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
F
A61F 5/44 (2006.01) A61B 17/34 (2006.01) A61J 15/00 (2006.01) A61M 29/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2050816
A stoma creator is provided comprising a flexible tube having a first opening, a tapered dilator portion having a second opening, the diameter of the first opening being greater than the diameter of the second opening, and a connecting portion. The stoma creator has a tapered dilator having a side wall which gently tapers from approximately 5 French to 14 French. The method for using the device of this invention comprises the steps of securing the stomach to the abdominal wall through he use of T-fasteners, inserting a needle percutaneously into the gastric lumen, passing a guidewire through the needle, grasping the guidewire with the endoscope and bringing it out through the mouth, threading the tapered dilator over the guidewire and passing the stoma creator down the throat into the stomach then out through the abdominal wall, using the guidewire to pull the stoma creator down the throat through the stomach and out through the abdominal wall, cutting off the tapered dilator and connecting portion, passing a gastrostomy tube through the flexible tube, with the gastrostomy tube having a balloon adjacent its tip, removing the flexible tube and filling the balloon. A similar alternative method is also disclosed.
Clegg Robert Donald
Hirsch William Henry
Isaac Ronald Mark
Abbott Laboratories
Goudreau Gage Dubuc
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