A rectal irrigation apparatus for irrigating a patient's rectum with irrigation fluid (also called lavage) and evacuating feces therefrom. The apparatus comprises several components that work together for integrated operation. The spray nozzle is designed to swirl the spray irrigation fluid in a vortex motion to break-up or loosen feces in the rectum. For example, the spray nozzle may contain a spinning auger to create the vortex motion. The fecal waste is suctioned out into a waste container. The apparatus further comprises a control module that integrates the operation of the various components, such as the vortex generator, the water pump, suction pump, or toilet mechanism. This apparatus could be particularly useful in the treatment of fecal impaction.

The invention relates to a method for leak-minimized emptying of stool from the rectum of a patient and/or for providing leak-minimized access to the rectum for the infusion of liquid substances, by means of a shaft body, which is introduced into the bowel via the anus and is able to elastically fold or invaginate and elastically erect, and whereby the shaft is provided with a dumbbell- or mushroom-shaped balloon body, which is reaching form the rectal portion of the balloon into or through the anal canal. The invention is characterized by a special design and a special choice of materials for the shaft body and the balloon envelope, allowing for a continuous, dynamic trans-anal seal, which is communicating and synchronized with the motility of the anal sphincter and is spontaneously adapting to body movements of the patient, and which is in particular allowing for mobilization of patients from a supine to a sitting or standing patient position or to allow patients for walking, while stool is in a flowable, liquid state or while an infusion of liquid to the rectum is performed.

Examples relate to systems and methods to periodically apply inward pressure against the contents of non-intrusive bodily waste collection devices. The systems and methods disclosed herein utilize a non-intrusive bodily waste collection device having an outermost fluid impermeable barrier forming a chamber therein, one or more ports on the fluid impermeable barrier for removing fluids therefrom via a vacuum source, and one or more input ports fluidly coupled to a positive pressure source to input fluid into the chamber to collectively apply periodic inward pressure against the contents of the bodily waste collection device.

A nozzle for use in delivering a mixture of aerosol propellant and drug formulation. The nozzle includes a drug product inlet configured to receive a mixture of aerosolized propellant and an intranasal dosage form. The inlet is disposed at the proximal end. A nozzle body is secured to the drug product inlet. Two or more channels are disposed within the body. Two or more orifice apertures are disposed at the distal end of the nozzle.

Described is an anal medicinal applicator that generally comprises a base, a medicinal cream receiving port in the base, a shaft and at least one longitudinal slot. The longitudinal slot extending along an axis from the base and terminating at a distal end. The at least one longitudinal slot extending along a portion of the shaft, the receiving port, the shaft and the at least one longitudinal slot defining an unobstructed pathway. The longitudinal slot defined by a leading slot edge, a trailing slot edge, a proximal slot edge, and a distal slot edge, the leading slot edge and the trailing slot edge are longer than the proximal slot edge and the distal slot edge. A lip protrudes from the shaft along at least a portion of the leading slot edge it is configured and arranged to cause a tenting effect of the inner intestinal wall when the anal medicinal applicator is deployed in an anus.

A trans-anal irrigation (TAI) system adapted for self-use includes an irrigation head supplied with water from a reservoir by a pump or by gravity feed. The irrigation head has either internal or external structures for releasably retaining the head in a user's rectum during the water flow portion of a TAI process. A guide member arm may be provided for manipulating the irrigation head for both insertion and removal. The irrigation head is reliably attached to the guide member arm. The guide member arm may include an integral manual pump.

A system for performing irrigation of a body cavity includes a reservoir containing an irrigation liquid, a catheter and a controller. The catheter is configured to be at least partially inserted into the body cavity and has a flushing passage, a drain passage and a retention balloon. A waste drain valve is in fluid communication with the drain passage of the catheter and is movable between a closed configuration, where waste is retained within the drain passage, and an open configuration where waste flows through the drain passage. The controller is in fluid communication with the reservoir and the catheter, and has a pump and a valve assembly. The valve assembly is changeable between configurations where, when the pump is actuated, irrigation liquid is pumped from the reservoir to the retention balloon, from the reservoir to the flushing passage of the catheter and from the retention balloon to the reservoir.

Disclosed are irrigation systems and methods, which can be used for rectal/anal irrigation. One example system includes a reservoir for an irrigating liquid, a probe for arrangement in a user, tubing providing fluid communication between the reservoir and probe, and an electrical pump for indirectly pumping irrigation liquid from the reservoir to the probe through said tubing. The electrical pump is controllable to assume a plurality of predetermined flow rates. The system includes an electrically operable valve to continuously control a degree of openness of the tubing, a flow sensor to measure an actual flow rate of the irrigation liquid in the probe, and a controller to obtain a desired flow rate, and control the flow rate of the electric pump to one of the plurality of flow rates exceeding the desired flow rate, and to continuously regulate the electrically operable valve based on the measured actual flow rate.

A medical device includes a fluid collection element, a fluid communication element and a pulling element. The pulling element is attached to a distal end of the fluid collection element and/or fluid communication element. The medical device can be included in a medical kit.

A system for anal and/or stomal irrigation comprises a reservoir (102) for an irrigating liquid, a catheter (100) comprising a catheter tip for insertion into the rectum and/or stoma of a user and for expelling of the irrigating liquid from the catheter tip, the catheter further comprising an expandable retention element (104), such as a balloon. A pump (101) is provided to pump the irrigating liquid from the reservoir to the catheter tip, and a user-operable control interface (123;125) comprising a dedicated emergency stop zone (125) is provided for receiving user input to withdraw the irrigating liquid from the retention element (100) for purging thereof in any operational state of the system.