Prevent the glossoptosis device
Technical field
This utility model relates to a kind of medical orthotics, and more particularly this utility model relates to a kind of novel glossoptosis device that prevents.The glossoptosis device that prevents described in the utility model can be applied to various clinical fields, especially can use at surgery, Anesthesia Department, department of otorhinolaryngology, ICU etc., also can be used for the treatment of the daily snoring of family.
Background technology
Such a case occurs through regular meeting in clinical practice, going into a coma or anaesthetizing postoperative, glossoptosis appears in the patient.With reference to figure 9 and 10, wherein Fig. 9 shows normal person's tongue body and head, pharyngeal dissection side cross-sectional view, the ground of comparing, and Figure 10 shows glossoptosis patient's tongue body and head, pharyngeal dissection side cross-sectional view.From Fig. 9 and 10, can clearly tell the respiratory tract obstruction that causes owing to glossoptosis, and this obstruction causes anoxia easily.For this problem, traditional solution has two kinds: (1) holder lower jaw and (2) are placed " oropharyngeal airway " and are reached " laryngeal mask ".
(1) holder lower jaw
The mode of " holder lower jaw " is the simplest, practicality and the effective method that solves patient's glossoptosis anoxia problem, but adopts this artificial technology's mode to have comprehensive diagnosis and treatment and the rescue work time that following deficiency: a. is wasted time and energy and taken the medical worker fully; B. reduced carrying out smoothly to patient's diagnosis and treatment, rescue work.
(2) place " oropharyngeal airway " and reach " laryngeal mask "
Placement " oropharyngeal airway " reaches " laryngeal mask " and is generally built-in, the patient is stimulated complication such as bigger, easy initiation is felt sick, vomiting, laryngospasm.
In addition, the higher snoring of sickness rate also is a very serious health problem for a lot of people.Snoring can cause sleep to lack, and makes people's brain, blood produce serious anoxia, thereby forms hypoxemia, causes sleep apnea syndrome under the serious situation.This hypoxemia can be brought out a series of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension, arrhythmia, scheming infarction, angina pectoris, even causes asphyxia to surpass 120 seconds, causes sudden death.
At present, there is (1) to adopt various device, assistive device and the respiratory masks etc. that prevent glossoptosis for the common solution of snoring; (2) operative treatment.
(1) adopts various device, assistive device and the respiratory masks etc. that prevent glossoptosis;
A kind of Oral appliances has appearred on the market now, it is applicable to that the patient wears night, normally change mandibular location according to forward direction, so can open pharyngeal air flue, but owing to the action principle of this device is to change jaw portion position, so product configurations and use that this action principle causes bother concerning the wearer very much.
The continuous positive pressure breathing machine provides lasting positive airway pressure by wearing breathing mask, therefore keeps airway to open.But this equipment is costliness and complicated operation very, can feel after the snorer wears simultaneously that sleep is uncomfortable, so only use under the asphyxia serious situation.
(2) operative treatment
The operative treatment snoring normally adopts the mode of the structure of obstructions breathings such as tonsil that excision increases, polyp to carry out.But postoperative can treat successfully that the ratio of snoring is relatively low, and scope does not roughly wait at 20-40%, and the relapse rate height.
Other therapeutic modalities of snoring comprise fat-reducing, physical training, the sleep of lying on one's side, discontinue the habit of smoking and drinking, oral drugs etc., the problem that causes snoring but these above modes all can't thoroughly solve glossoptosis.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this utility model be propose a kind of simple in structure, easy to use and reliable and can effectively prevent and treat the airway obstruction that glossoptosis causes and the apparatus of snoring.
The technical scheme that this utility model technical solution problem is adopted is:
This utility model provides a kind of glossoptosis device that prevents, it is characterized in that comprising:
Negative pressure suction device, this negative pressure suction device are elastomer and have the hollow sleeve-like structure of fitting with tongue body; And
Adjustable fixture, this adjustable fixture is positioned at the periphery of negative pressure suction device, be used for matching with negative pressure suction device with negative pressure suction device during with the tongue body sucking-off against lip chin portion.
Described negative pressure suction device comprises the intake section that is positioned at the open end, is positioned at the dilation of blind end and therebetween cervical region, and intake section extends to dilation after extending to cervical region with shrinking gradually more gradually with enlarging.
The downside of the intake section of described negative pressure suction device is formed with the taper gap along the direction towards blind end, is used to hold lingual frenum, makes tongue body surface anatomy structure and negative pressure suction device inner chamber fit tightly.
Described dilation is the hollow ball shape.
Described negative pressure suction device along the diameter of left and right directions all greater than along the vertical direction diameter, and cross section ovalize.
The diameter of the cervical region of described negative pressure suction device is the narrowest place of whole assembly dia.
It is heart-shaped that the cross section of described intake section is, and the bottom side of intake section has the triangular shaped recess structure, in order to the anatomical structure of the person's of being used tongue body bottom.
Described negative pressure suction device adopts high molecular synthetic material to make.
Described negative pressure suction device is moulded one-body molded by medical grade silicon.
Described negative pressure suction device and adjustable fixture are integral structure.
The laminated structure of described adjustable fixture on the periphery of described negative pressure suction device, holding up.
Described negative pressure suction device and adjustable fixture are split-type structural.
Described adjustable fixture is made of L type support and the fixed length band of fixing this L type support.
Described adjustable fixture comprises at least one L type support, and it is used for fitting with user upper lip chin or lower lip chin, retracts in the oral cavity to prevent tongue body and negative pressure suction device.
Described adjustable fixture comprises two L type supports, and it lays respectively at the upside and the downside of negative pressure suction device.
Has first junction surface on described L type support and the contacted surface of negative pressure suction device, described negative pressure suction device and described first junction surface have second junction surface on the corresponding surface, and first junction surface and/or second junction surface have the surface texture that is used to increase the engaging force between L type support and the negative pressure suction device.
The surface texture at described first junction surface and/or second junction surface is the hackly surface projection.
Described L type support is made of plastics.
Described fixed length band is made by cotton, staple fibre or nylon material.
Described fixed length band is used for described L type support is fixed in the periphery of negative pressure suction device, the junction surface of winning is in contact with one another with second junction surface and cooperates to prevent that tongue body and device from retracting in the oral cavity.
Product of the present utility model has following advantage:
The glossoptosis device that prevents described in the utility model is before sleep or after the operation, entangle tongue body with negative pressure suction device, by the dilation of extrusion tip, air-out forms negative pressure, automatically attract tongue body further to be inserted in the suction device with negative pressure, reach the fixed forward purpose of tongue.
This utility model is different according to the length of user tongue and oral cavity form, uses the fixedly position of tongue body of adjustable fixture, is fixed on tongue body comfortable and makes the position of airway patency.Thereby, it is a kind of novel reliable that this utility model provides, the noninvasive glossoptosis device that prevents, can satisfy different people for the needs of removing airway obstruction, can be to various stupors, anesthesia, and the glossoptosis that causes of snoring reason and the respiratory tract obstruction patient that causes control effectively, and remove airway obstruction.
Description of drawings
With reference to accompanying drawing, according to following detailed description, advantage of the present utility model, feature and embodiment are conspicuous, in the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 shows the sketch map that user is worn the tongue fixture;
Fig. 2 shows the vertical view that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body;
Fig. 3 shows the side cross-sectional view that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body;
Fig. 4 shows the hollow ball cross section figure that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body;
Fig. 5 shows the intake section cross-sectional view that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body;
Fig. 6 shows the structure chart that prevents glossoptosis device fixed structure 121 or 122;
Fig. 7 shows the side cross-sectional view that prevents glossoptosis device fixed structure 121 or 122;
Fig. 8 shows the structure chart that prevents after glossoptosis device fixed structure 121 or 122 is fixed on the fixing band;
Fig. 9 shows the tongue body of normally going into and head, pharyngeal dissection side cross-sectional view;
Figure 10 shows glossoptosis patient's tongue body and head, pharyngeal dissection side cross-sectional view;
Figure 11 shows the anatomical structure side cross-sectional view behind the tongue body negative pressure suction tongue fixer body;
Figure 12 shows with fixed structure will prevent that glossoptosis apparatus main body and tongue body are fixed on anatomical structure side cross-sectional view behind the forward space, oral cavity.
The specific embodiment
Below with reference to Figure of description the specific embodiment of the present utility model is described.
Fig. 1 shows the sketch map that user is worn the tongue fixture, and Fig. 2 shows the vertical view that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body.Elaborate to preventing glossoptosis device 100 below with reference to Fig. 1-2.
Shown in Fig. 1-2, this utility model provides a kind of glossoptosis device 100 that prevents, this prevents that glossoptosis device 100 is by a negative pressure suction device 110 of fitting with tongue body and constitute in the adjustable fixture 120 of its supporting extension.This negative pressure suction device 110 has the elastomer of hollow structure, this adjustable fixture 120 is the extension adjustable structure, this adjustable fixture 120 is positioned at the periphery of negative pressure suction device 110, be used for matching with negative pressure suction device negative pressure suction device 110 during with the tongue body sucking-off against lip.
Fig. 3 shows the side cross-sectional view that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body; Fig. 4 shows the hollow ball cross section figure that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body; Fig. 5 shows the intake section cross-sectional view that prevents the glossoptosis apparatus main body, elaborates below with reference to Fig. 3-5 pair negative pressure suction device 110.
Shown in Fig. 3-5, this negative pressure suction device 110 can use various rubber-like materials to make flexibly in the preferred embodiment of the present utility model, is generally high molecular synthetic material such as pvc material or similar material.In preferred embodiment of the present utility model, can adopt medical grade silicon to mould one-time formed hollow structure, this material and lingual surface fit tightly well.The hollow structure elastomer of this negative pressure suction device 110 has tongue body shape elastic body, and this tongue body shape elastic body includes notch portion 112 and hollow ball part 113.Wherein, the tapered constriction of intake section is led to hollow ball part 113 more gradually openly to cervical region.The mid portion of negative pressure suction device 110 has cervical region 111, and end has the hollow ball part 113 that circle is expanded, and the diameter of this cervical region 111 is less than the diameter of hollow ball part 113, and the diameter of cervical region is the narrowest place of whole assembly dia.No matter external diameter is in cervical region 111 or hollow ball part 113 in this tongue body shape elastic body, and the diameter of left and right directions is all greater than the diameter of above-below direction, and the tangent plane ovalize.
Negative pressure suction device 110 porch downsides have the taper gap, are used to hold lingual frenum, make tongue body surface anatomy structure and negative pressure suction device inner chamber fit tightly.It is heart-shaped that the intake section cross section of tongue body shape elastic body is, and the intake section below has triangular shaped recess structure 115, in order to the anatomical structure in the person of being used hypogloeeis.Described negative pressure suction device 110 hollow tongue body shape elastic bodies also can adopt high molecular synthetic material to make.Simultaneously, the hollow ball part 113 of negative pressure suction device 110 has projection 114, be used to increase frictional force, this projection 114 is used for matching with the adjustable fixture 120 of extension and fixes patient's lingual surface up and down, according to preferred embodiment of the present utility model should projection 114 be zigzag, but shape that should projection 114 is not limited in zigzag, and those skilled in the art can the fixing lines that needs to adopt other increase frictional force commonly used of tongue body.
Fig. 6 shows the structure chart that prevents glossoptosis device fixed structure 121 or 122; Fig. 7 shows the side cross-sectional view that prevents glossoptosis device fixed structure 121 or 122; Fig. 8 shows the structure chart that prevents after glossoptosis device fixed structure 121 or 122 is fixed on the fixing band.Describe below in conjunction with Fig. 6-8 pair of adjustable fixture 120.
Shown in Fig. 6-8, adjustable fixture 120 is the extension adjustable structure, and this adjustable fixture 120 is positioned at the periphery of negative pressure suction device 110, be used for matching with negative pressure suction device negative pressure suction device 110 during with the tongue body sucking-off against lip.Adjustable fixture 120 comprises a pair of fixed structure 121,122 and fixed length band 123, and fixed structure 121,122 lays respectively at the above and below in the hollow bulb of extension.According to this fixed structure 121 of preferred embodiment of the present utility model and 122 is two L type supports, and this fixed structure 121 and 122 and negative pressure suction device 110 contacted surfaces have equally the projection 124, this projection 124 is used to increase frictional force.This projection 124 is used for matching with the projection 114 of previously described negative pressure suction device porch and fixes patient's lingual surface up and down.Can adopt elastomeric material to make according to this fixed structure 121 of preferred embodiment of the present utility model and 122, as plastics etc.Adjustable fixture 120 is simple fixed structures, and this fixed structure 121 and 122 can adopt molding respectively, also can adopt and hollow bulb main body disposal molding.This L type support is used for the upper lip chin of user and lower lip chin are fitted, and retracts in the oral cavity to prevent tongue body and device.Adjustable fixture 120 also comprises fixed length band 123, is used for matching with fixed structure 121,122 fixing tongue body.Make by cotton, staple fibre or nylon material according to this fixed length band of preferred embodiment of the present utility model.
Fig. 9 shows normal person's tongue body and head, pharyngeal dissection side cross-sectional view; Figure 10 shows glossoptosis patient's tongue body and head, pharyngeal dissection side cross-sectional view; Figure 11 shows the anatomical structure side cross-sectional view behind the tongue body negative pressure suction tongue fixer body; Figure 12 shows with fixed structure will prevent that glossoptosis apparatus main body and tongue body are fixed on anatomical structure side cross-sectional view behind the forward space, oral cavity.Of the present utility modelly prevent that the use of glossoptosis device from describing below in conjunction with Fig. 9-12 pair.
Shown in Fig. 9-12, what use this utility model provided prevents that glossoptosis device process is as follows:
(1) step 1: the end in extruded hollow bulb slightly, user can be about to tongue body certainly and be positioned in the cavity, up to arriving at hollow bulb end;
(2) step 2: unclamp the hollow bulb end that is extruded, hollow bulb end can recover original shape voluntarily, and the tongue body in the cavity is produced negative pressure, tongue body is stretched to hollow ball part 113 directions, and make fixture be maintained fixed on the tongue;
(3) step 3: after loosing one's grip, adopt fixed structure 121 and 122 to fit respectively with user upperlip chin, with fixed length band 123 be bundled in fixed structure 121 with 122 with a side that negative pressure suction device 110 contacts on, fixed structure 121 and 122 projection 124 contact with projection 114 on the negative pressure suction device 110 and cooperatively interact to prevent that tongue body and device from retracting in the oral cavity.
Contrast Figure 11 and Figure 12 can find, when adopt that this utility model provides prevent the glossoptosis device tongue body is corrected fixing after, patient before using since the airway obstruction that the tongue body hypertrophy causes partly lifted, thereby make that patient's breathing is more smooth and easy.
The glossoptosis device that prevents that this utility model provides also is a kind of medical appliance, snore stopper and tongue fixture, and it goes for different patients, can also provide different size to satisfy or demand simultaneously according to the size of patient's oral cavity structure.Because the structure of the tongue body fixture that provides of this utility model does not need to cooperate with tooth structure and adjust,, can be used as the OTC product in the pharmacy or hospital's sale so use simply.Simultaneously, this device also can be used for the anodontia patient.
Though this utility model and preferred embodiment are open as above, yet be not in order to limit this utility model, the suitable modifications and variations of those skilled in the art in not breaking away from spirit and scope of the present utility model all should belong to this utility model and contain general scope.