JPH06190022A - Insulating tool for infusion, nutritive agent and liquid food - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an insulating tool which keeps always an infusion, a nutritive agent or a liq. food dosed to a patient through a tube at a proper temp. CONSTITUTION:A pair of semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12 are constituted of upper end closing plates 21 and 22 on its upper ends, a lower end closing plate 31 on its lower end, a jointing male part 41 projected to the facing direction on the semi-cylindrical body 11 and a jointing female part 42 into which the jointing male part 41 is fittable on the same position of the semi-cylindrical body 12. Facing channels 71 and 72 for a hooking tool for projecting a hooking ring 6 of a container 5 for a liq. food are formed on the facing ends of the upper end closing plates 21 and 22 and a facing channel 91 for a tube wherein a tube 8 for feeding the liq. food in the container 5 passes is formed on the facing end of the lower end closing plate 31. The above-described members are integrally constituted of polystyrene foam.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to a drip tube, a nutrient tube or a liquid food tube for drip infusion,
Related to infusions, nutrients, and heat-retaining / cooling equipment for liquid foods, which are used to keep or keep those liquids warm depending on the relationship with the ambient temperature when supplementing nutrients or ingesting liquid foods Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the current medical field, many treatment methods are used in which various medical fluids, infusions of high-calorie nutrients, etc. are administered to patients by infusion. In addition, enteral nutrition therapy and the like, in which various nutritional supplements or liquid foods are directly sent to the stomach and intestines through tubes, are also widely practiced. Such a therapy
Various selections are made according to the type of patient's disease. In any case, it is possible to administer a large amount of infusion, nutritional supplement, or liquid food relatively easily over a long period of time.
It tends to be used frequently.

Such therapy is applied to a wide variety of patients, from infants to bedridden elderly. It is used not only in hospitals, clinics, and other places that specialize in medical care, but also at home.

In any case, administration of drugs or other infusions, nutritional supplements, or liquid foods cannot be carried out in large quantities at one time, and therefore, due to their nature, continuous administration over a long period of time is generally adopted. Inevitably, during that period, the storage container containing infusions of medicines, nutrients, liquid foods, etc. is only suspended and held on a stand, etc., so that the temperature gradually rises depending on the room temperature. Result or decrease.

[0005] Therefore, if this is left as it is, an extremely low temperature infusion, a nutrient or a liquid food, or an extremely high temperature infusion, a nutrient or a liquid food is injected or ingested into the body, or temperature The nutrients or liquid foods that have deteriorated as the temperature rises may be injected into the intestine, which causes problems such as deterioration of physical condition and further deterioration of health. Therefore, especially in the summer, when a high-calorie enteral nutritional product is administered, there is a risk that it will rot, so it is not possible to use a large bottle that can hold the required amount, and use small bottles divided into several times. In some cases, administration was used.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above conventional problems and, regardless of room temperature, an infusion solution, a nutritional supplement, or a fluid to be administered to a patient using a drip, a nasal sonde or other tube. Maintaining food etc. at a temperature within an allowable range so that an appropriate temperature infusion, nutritional supplement or liquid food etc. can always be administered to a patient, and regarding such infusion, nutritional supplement or liquid food etc.,
The purpose of the invention is to ensure that the effects of each are achieved.

[0007]

The gist of the structure of the present invention is to construct a pair of half-cylindrical members which are face-to-face coupled and can be formed into a tubular shape, and which are semi-cylindrical. An upper end blocking plate facing inward was formed at the upper end, and a lower end blocking plate facing inward was formed at the lower end. Both of the semi-cylindrical members were face-to-face joined to the facing ends of the upper blocking plates. On the occasion of infusion,
A facing groove for a locking tool, which is a hole for a locking tool for projecting a locking tool provided at the upper end of a container for a nutritional supplement or liquid food, is formed, and the lower end closing plates of both half-cylindrical members are formed. A tube that serves as a hole for a tube through which a tube for feeding an infusion, a nutrient, or a liquid food is connected to the lower end of a container for an infusion, a nutrient, or a liquid food, when the two are face-to-face connected. Insulation, nutritional supplement, and liquid food heat / cold retainer in which the above-mentioned two half-cylindrical members, the upper half-closing plate and the lower half-closing plate formed of the two half-cylindrical members are respectively formed of heat insulating materials. is there.

The semi-cylindrical member is not particularly limited as long as it is tubular, and may be formed in a semi-cylindrical shape by breaking a polygonal tube such as a hexagonal tube or an octagonal tube. Forming is the most common configuration. The size of the container is determined according to the size of the container for infusion, nutrition, or liquid food contained therein. It is appropriate that the size of these can be sufficiently stored, and that the lower portion has a room for storing a cold insulating agent described later. It is also possible to prepare multiple types of different sizes.

If the semi-cylindrical member is formed in a semi-cylindrical shape, both the upper end closing plate and the lower end closing plate are basically formed in a semi-circular shape when viewed from a plane. Further, it is appropriate that the semi-cylindrical member and the upper end closing plate and the lower end closing plate are integrally molded. The material is a heat insulating material as described above, but styrene foam or the like is suitable. Of course, other various plastics may be adopted. The two semi-cylindrical members form connecting means for connecting the half-ends facing each other to each other. As the connection means, for example,
The connecting male part is projected along the inner edge of the half-split end of one half-cylindrical member, and the connecting female part is projected along the outer edge of the half-split end of the other half-cylindrical member. When they are to be face-to-face coupled with each other in this manner, the connection female portion is externally coupled to the connection male portion so that they can be coupled in a cylindrical shape.

[0010]

Since the infusion solution, nutrient and heat and cold insulator for liquid food of the present invention are configured as described above, administration of drip, nutrient or liquid food to a patient can be performed while maintaining the optimum temperature. Is. That is, infusions, nutrients, liquid foods, etc. are heated or cooled according to the nature and season of the liquid itself, and then the storage container that stores them is joined face-to-face with the pair of semi-cylindrical members. It is to be inserted into the storage space inside the cylinder, and a hook or other hooking tool at the upper end of the storage container is projected from the locking tool hole and hung on the arm or the like of the stand. On the other hand, the delivery tube extending from the lower end of the storage container pulls out the tube from the tube hole of the semi-cylindrical member to deliver the infusion solution, the nutritional supplement, or the liquid food to the patient.

Therefore, since the above-mentioned infusion solution, nutritional supplement, or liquid food is covered with a pair of semi-cylindrical members formed of a heat insulating material in a state of being stored in a storage container, it is kept warm or cold and can be kept for a long time. Maintains a temperature close to the original temperature. If necessary, if a cooling agent or a heat retaining agent is also placed in the storage space formed by the pair of semi-cylindrical members, the action is further promoted. Therefore, the above-mentioned infusion, nutritional supplement, liquid food, etc. maintain a good quality state, and the patient who administers it has a cold body or becomes unnecessarily hot due to administration at an appropriate temperature. Therefore, unnecessary health problems do not occur, and the original effects of the infusion solution, nutritional supplement, liquid food, etc. can be sufficiently achieved.

[0012]

The present invention will be disclosed below with reference to the accompanying drawings showing the embodiments. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of an infusion solution, a nutritional supplement and a heat and cold insulator for liquid food according to the present invention.
The pair of semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12 is configured to be face-to-face coupled.
The semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12 are provided with upper end closing plates 21 and 22 having a substantially semi-circular shape at their upper ends, and lower end closing plates 31 and 32 having a semi-circular shape at their lower ends. A peripheral wall having a thickness of half is projected in the facing direction from the inner edges of the end portions on both sides of the one semi-cylindrical body 11 and the inner edge portions of the upper end closing plate 21 and the lower end closing plate 31 to form the coupling male portion 41, and the other end. The inner edges of both ends of the semi-cylindrical body 12 and the inner edges of the upper end closing plate 22 and the lower end closing plate 32 are cut in half in a face-to-face direction so that the connecting male portion 41 can be inserted. The part 42 is configured.

Upper half closing plates 21 of the two semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12,
The center of the facing end of 22 serves as a locking hole for projecting a locking ring 6 provided at the upper end of the container 5 for infusion, nutrient, or liquid food when both are face-to-face connected. Face-to-face grooves 71 and 72 for fasteners are formed, respectively, and face-to-face ends of the lower end blocking plates 31 and 32 of both the semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12 are used for infusion, nutritional supplement or liquid food when they are face-to-face coupled. Tube facing grooves 91 and 92, which are tube holes through which the tubes 8 for feeding infusions, nutrients, or liquid foods connected to the lower end of the storage container 5 pass, are formed.

Both semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12, an upper end closing plate 21,
22 and the lower end closing plates 31 and 32 are integrally molded with styrofoam.

Since the infusion solution, nutritional supplement and heat and cold insulator for liquid food of this embodiment are constructed as described above, administration of infusion, nutritional supplement or liquid food to a patient can be performed at an optimum temperature for a long time. This can be done while holding.

For example, in the winter, when the nutritional supplement is to be administered to a patient by a nasal tube while keeping it warm, the storage container 5 containing the nutritional supplement can be formed by connecting a pair of the semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12 face-to-face. Charge into. As shown in Figure 1,
First, the storage container 5 is loaded into one of the semi-cylindrical bodies 11, and the locking ring 6 thereof is projected upward from the facing groove 71 for the locking tool at the facing end of the upper end closing plate 21. Also, the tube 8
Is drawn downward from the tube facing groove 91 at the facing end of the lower end closing plate 31. In this state, the other semi-cylindrical body 12 is face-bonded to the semi-cylindrical body 11. This can be done by covering the former coupling female portion 42 with the latter coupling male portion 41. Then, the locking ring 6 of the storage container 5 which is covered with the pair of semi-cylindrical bodies 11 and 12 is hooked on the tip locking portion 102 of the arm 101 of the stand 10.

After that, a pump (not shown) is interposed in the middle of the tube 8 to set the tube 8 on the patient. The nutritional supplement thus filled in the storage container 5 is a pair of semi-cylindrical bodies 1
Since it is externally attached to the warming tool mainly consisting of 1 and 12, and these are molded with styrofoam, which is a heat insulating material, it becomes cold to the patient even if the nutritional administration is continued for a long time. And can be administered without abnormally cooling the patient's body. In the case of use in the summer, by storing a cooling agent or the like in the empty space of the storage space together, it is possible to maintain a low temperature state for a long time.

[0018]

As described above, since the above-mentioned infusion solution, nutritional supplement, liquid food, etc. are heat-insulated while being stored in the storage container, they are kept warm or cold and kept in a state close to the initial temperature for a long time. Can hold Therefore, the above infusions, nutritional supplements, liquid foods, etc. should be kept in good quality, and the patient who administers them should keep their body cool and unnecessarily hot due to administration at an appropriate temperature. Therefore, unnecessary health problems do not occur, and the original effects of the infusion solution, nutritional supplement, liquid food, etc. can be sufficiently achieved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing a storage container for an infusion solution, a nutritional supplement, and a heat and cold insulator for liquid food according to an embodiment of the present invention, a stand for suspending these, and the like.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an infusion solution, a nutritional supplement and a heat and cold insulator for liquid food according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 semi-cylindrical body 12 semi-cylindrical body 21 upper end closing plate 22 upper end closing plate 31 lower end closing plate 32 lower end closing plate 41 coupling male part 42 coupling female part 5 storage container 6 locking ring 71 facing groove for locking tool 72 locking tool Facing groove 8 tube 91 facing groove for tube 92 facing groove for tube 10 stand 101 arm 102 tip locking part

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pair of half-cylindrical members, which are face-to-face coupled to each other to form a tubular shape, and which are freely face-to-face coupled, wherein both of the half-cylindrical members have an upper end blocking plate facing inward at an upper end and a lower end at a lower end. Respectively constitute the lower end closing plates facing inward, and the upper end closing plates of both half-cylindrical members are connected to the upper end of the storage container for infusion, nutritional supplement or liquid food when they are face-to-face connected. And a facing groove for a locking tool, which serves as a hole for a locking tool for projecting the locking tool, is formed on each of the half-cylindrical members. At this time, the tube facing groove for forming a tube hole through which the tube for feeding the infusion, nutrient or liquid food is connected to the lower end of the container for the infusion, nutrient or liquid food is constructed. Both half-cylindrical members, an upper end closing plate and a lower end closing plate configured in both half-cylindrical members, respectively Configured infusion with hot material,
Nutrients and heat insulation for liquid food.