Hollister, Inc.

Infineum International Limited

Shamsedin Rostami

Adam J Foley

John T Clarke

Enda F Carter

James J Fitzpatrick

Jerome A Henry

Padraig M O'Flynn

Horacio Montes De Oca Balderas

Padraig M O'flynn

Horacio Montes De Oca

Thomas Renehan

Michael G Murray

Martin McMenamin

Daniel E O'Brien

Brendan Joseph Heneghan

Robert William Shaw

Joel D Shutt

Richard Meaney

John Francis Hannan

James Lee Head

Marco Corradi

Martin T Moran

Daniel E O′brien

Seamus Fitzpatrick

Martin Mcmenamin

Padraig M O'FLYNN

James J Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick

Catheter assemblies including a catheter and a liquid.

Ready-to-use urinary catheter assembly

A catheter assembly includes a catheter at least partially positioned within a sleeve. The catheter has a coating, which produces a low-friction surface on the catheter when treated with an activating fluid. A protective tip is connected to the sleeve and has proximal and distal internal seals, with the proximal seal at the proximal end of the tip or between proximal and distal ends of the protective tip. A cap of the assembly has a projection, which is removably received within the protective tip for sealing engagement with the proximal and distal seals to define a fluid reservoir within the protective tip. An activating fluid is contained within the fluid reservoir. The projection may be partially hollow to receive a portion of the catheter. The sleeve may be relatively narrow or at least have a narrowed portion for better distribution of activating fluid to the surface of the catheter.

Urinary catheter assemblies having a sleeve

Medical devices that are flushable in a standard toilet are disclosed. The medical devices are made at least in part of material that when introduced into water (of a toilet) disintegrate and/or fragment or are fragmentable before or after introduction into water such that they can be easily carried by the water through the disposal system. At least a portion of the device is intended for insertion into a patient or subject wherein the body-insertable portion retains its structural integrity while in use but is fragmentable once outside the body and exposed to a selected condition.

Flushable disintegration catheter

A medical device wherein the device has an outer surface coated with an oleophilic lubricous coating or the device is formed from a mixture including a polymer and an oleophilic compound.

Oleophilic lubricated catheters

Urinary catheter protective tips having a fluid reservoir

A catheter assembly () comprising: a hydrophilic urinary catheter () having a catheter shaft including a proximal insertion end portion () and a distal end portion () having a drainage member (), a collapsible sleeve () defining a compartment () that contains a portion of the catheter shaft, a distal end portion () of the sleeve () being attached to the distal end portion () of the urinary catheter (); an amount of liquid () located within the compartment (); an introducer () located at a proximal end portion () of the sleeve (), the introducer () including a passageway therethrough and a proximal opening for passage of the catheter shaft therethrough; and a removable cap () covering the introducer () wherein the cap () includes an anti-leak element.

A flushable catheter configured to facilitate flushing of the catheter down the toilet and for disposal thereof. The flushable catheter optionally having a selected density such that the catheter has a desired buoyancy relative to water. Alternatively or in addition to having a selected density, the flushable catheter optionally includes a water capture element that is contacted by flushing water and captures the force of the flushing water to propel the catheter down the toilet and/or across a trapway/U-bend sewer pipe.

Flushable catheters

A flushable catheter assembly that includes at least one shrinkable portion that shrinks from a first configuration to a second compact configuration to reduce the size of the catheter assembly for passage through the sewer system. The flushable catheter may also be made from a water disintegratable polymer that dissolves, degrades or hydrolyzes while within the sewer system.

A catheter assembly includes at least one self-lubricated part formed from a mixture including a polymer and lubricant. The polymer has a functional group that can react with the functional group of the lubricant. The suitably functionalized lubricant provides for a low coefficient of friction surface for easier and less traumatic insertion and withdrawal of the catheter into and from body cavities.

Self-lubricated catheters

A low sulphated ash lubricating oil composition comprises an ashless aromatic amine antioxidant and an overbased magnesium detergent which exhibits improved thermal oxidation stability.

Lubricating oil composition

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South Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Shamsedin Rostami