CN212755720U

CN212755720U - Throat swab

Info

Publication number: CN212755720U
Application number: CN202020565181.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马晶晶
Original assignee: West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University
Current assignee: West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University
Priority date: 2020-04-16
Filing date: 2020-04-16
Publication date: 2021-03-23
Anticipated expiration: 2030-04-16

Abstract

The utility model relates to the field of medical equipment, especially a pharynx swab, including handheld portion, handheld portion can dismantle to be connected in the test tube opening part, be equipped with sample portion in the test tube, sample portion connects handheld portion, sample portion contains the sampling head, the sampling head with still be equipped with protector between the handheld portion. Adopt throat swab can block droplet, aerosol that the patient produced when opening one's mouth pronunciation when gathering the sample, reduces the risk that is infected when gathering personnel uses throat swab to gather patient's sample, and each throat swab is equipped with a corresponding cultivation test tube, can in time send into the sample after gathering the sample in the test tube that corresponds, avoids the sample of gathering to receive external pollution, and can improve the efficiency of gathering the sample, makes whole sample collection process compacter and convenient.

Description

Throat swab

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of medical equipment, especially a pharynx swab.

Background

The purpose of collecting the specimen by using the throat swab is to adopt pharyngeal secretion and tonsil secretion of a patient for bacterial culture so as to assist diagnosis. In the process of collecting the specimen, the patient is required to open mouth to produce sound, such as: the voice is emitted to expose the throat of the patient, and then the collection end of the throat swab is inserted into the throat of the patient to collect a sample. When the patient opens his mouth to speak, a large amount of virus-carrying droplets and aerosols may be generated from the mouth and nose, causing the collection personnel to be at risk of infection.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide a: when having the collection personnel to use the pharynx swab to patient collection sample to prior art, the problem that the collection personnel has the risk of being infected provides a pharynx swab.

In order to realize the purpose, the utility model discloses a technical scheme be:

the utility model provides a pharynx swab, includes handheld portion, handheld portion can dismantle to be connected in the test tube opening part, the intraductal sample portion that is equipped with of test, sample portion connects handheld portion, sample portion contains the sample head, the sample head with still be equipped with protector between the handheld portion.

The protector is located the sampling head with between the handheld portion, can be used for sheltering from patient's oral area and nasal part when the sample, flying foam, the aerosol that produce when blockking patient open one's mouth pronunciation reduce the risk that is infected when the collection personnel use the pharynx swab to gather patient's sample. When gathering the sample, will handheld portion with the test tube is unpack apart, then will the sample head removes outside the test tube, will again the sample head stretches into patient's throat department, is located the sample head with between the handheld portion protector can shelter from patient's oral area and nasal part, will after gathering the sample success the sample head sends back in the test tube, avoids the sample of gathering to receive external pollution. Adopt throat swab can block droplet, aerosol that the patient produced when opening one's mouth pronunciation when gathering the sample, reduces the risk that is infected when gathering personnel uses throat swab to gather patient's sample, and each throat swab is equipped with a corresponding cultivation test tube, can in time send into the sample after gathering the sample in the test tube that corresponds, avoids the sample of gathering to receive external pollution, and can improve the efficiency of gathering the sample, makes whole sample collection process compacter and convenient.

Preferably, the guard is deployable as an umbrella member, the opening of the umbrella member facing the sampling head.

When the pharynx swab is not used, the umbrella-shaped component is tightened in the test tube, when the pharynx swab is used for collecting a patient sample, the sampling head is taken out of the test tube, the protection device can be unfolded into the umbrella-shaped component after the pharynx swab is not limited by the test tube wall, the umbrella-shaped component can be used for conveniently shielding the mouth and the nose of a patient, and then spray and aerosol generated when the patient opens the mouth to produce sound can be blocked. And protector can accomodate in advance in the test tube, be favorable to increasing protector's protective surface area does benefit to simultaneously and reduces the size of pharynx swab.

Preferably, the protection device is provided with a support component.

The supporting component is used for supporting the protection device to keep the shape after being unfolded, so that the protection effect is improved.

Preferably, the supporting part is a plurality of supporting rods, each supporting rod comprises a first section and a second section, one end of each section is connected to the inner side of the protection device, the other end of each section is hinged to one end of the second section, the other end of each section is connected to the sampling portion, and the size of the opening of the protection device can be adjusted through the supporting rods.

The supporting rod adopts two sections of supports, the distance between the two end parts of the supporting rod is changed by changing the hinge angle between the first section and the second section, and then the size of the opening of the protection device is adjusted, so that the protection device is unfolded into an umbrella-shaped member. Two adjacent sections also can adopt telescopic connection, change through flexible the distance of two tip of bracing piece, and then adjust the opening size that umbrella-shaped component expanded to be adapted to different patients' mouth and nose and shelter from.

Preferably, the protection device is a transparent component, such as a plastic component, a soft glass component, and the like, so that a collector can conveniently observe the condition of the collection part of the patient when collecting the specimen.

Preferably, the sampling part comprises a connecting rod, one end of the connecting rod is connected with the handheld part, and the other end of the connecting rod is connected with the sampling head.

The connecting rod is used for with the sampling head is sent into the patient and is got sample department, and is convenient for process, practices thrift the cost.

Preferably, protector can dismantle connect in on the connecting rod, be convenient for change protector on the connecting rod, and after gathering the sample from patient's oral area, be convenient for take off protector, then put into the culture medium of test tube bottom with the sample of gathering. And the protective device can be repeatedly used after being detached from the connecting rod, so that the cost is saved.

Preferably, the sampling part is a cotton swab, and the handheld part is detachably connected to the sampling part.

The collection personnel can be through changing the cotton swab, can reuse handheld portion material saving and cost.

Preferably, the test tube has a culture medium therein, and the sampling head is capable of being placed in the culture medium.

Through sample portion collection sample succeeds the back, with the timely culture medium of placing in the test tube of sample, can avoid the sample of collection to receive external pollution, improves the survival rate of sample.

Preferably, a label is arranged at the joint of the handheld part and the test tube.

The tag is integrally attached to the connection between the hand-held portion and the tube when the throat swab is not in use, and is broken when the throat swab is in use. Whether the throat swab is used or not can be judged by judging whether the label is damaged or not, so that the situation that the used throat swab is mistakenly used and the injury is caused to a patient is avoided; meanwhile, the label can be used for recording information of the collected specimen, such as the collection time and the name of the patient.

To sum up, owing to adopted above-mentioned technical scheme, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:

can block droplet, aerosol that produce when patient opens one's mouth pronunciation when gathering the sample, reduce the risk that is infected when gathering personnel uses throat swab to gather patient's sample, and each throat swab is equipped with a corresponding cultivation test tube, can in time send into the sample in the test tube that corresponds after gathering the sample, avoids the sample of gathering to receive external pollution, and can improve the efficiency of gathering the sample, makes whole sample collection process compacter and convenient. The test tube has a culture medium therein in which the sampling head can be placed. And through sample portion collection sample succeeds the back, with the timely culture medium of placing in the test tube of sample, can avoid the sample of collection to receive external contamination, improves the survival rate of sample. Just protector adopts transparent umbrella-type component, shelters from patient's oral area and nasal part when being convenient for gather personnel's sampling, and can observe the condition at patient's collection position when the person of gathering gathers the sample, makes the sampling more convenient.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the pharyngeal swab of example 1;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the status of the pharyngeal swab as described in example 1;

fig. 3 is an enlarged schematic view at a in fig. 2.

Icon: 1-a hand-held part; 2-test tube; 21-culture medium; 3-a connecting rod; 4-a guard; 5-a sampling head; 61-segment one; 62-segment two.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the invention.

Example 1

This embodiment provides a pharynx swab, refer to fig. 1-3, including handheld portion 1, handheld portion 1 can dismantle to be connected in test tube 2 opening part, be equipped with sample portion in the test tube 2, sample portion connects handheld portion 1, sample portion contains sampling head 5, sampling head 5 with still be equipped with protector 4 between the handheld portion 1.

Specifically, before the use of pharynx swab, as shown in fig. 1, including handheld portion 1 that is located the upper end, handheld portion 1 is cylindric plastic component, 1 lower extreme of handheld portion can be dismantled and be connected with test tube 2, if adopt threaded connection or pull out and insert the connection etc. just handheld portion 1 with test tube 2's junction is equipped with the label. In this embodiment, inside from the top down of test tube 2 is provided with sampling portion and culture medium 21, culture medium 21 can adopt solid state culture medium and liquid state culture medium, and of course, culture medium 21 also can be when using the pharynx swab is gathered the sample and is added into test tube 2, also can add test tube 2 when producing. In this embodiment, the sampling portion includes connecting rod 3, connecting rod 3 be used for with sample head 5 sends into the patient and gets sample department, and is convenient for process, practices thrift the cost. Specifically, the upper end of the connecting rod 3 is detachably connected with the handheld part 1, the lower end of the connecting rod is connected with the sampling head 5, and the sampling head 5 is arranged in the culture medium 21, as shown in fig. 1.

Still be connected with protector 4 on connecting rod 3, protector 4 is located sampling head 5 with between the handheld portion 1, just protector 4 distance sampling head 5's distance will satisfy the requirement in gathering the sample for splash, the aerosol that produce when blockking patient's mouth opening pronunciation, the risk that is infected when reducing the collection personnel and using throat swab to gather patient's sample. Of course, the distance from the one end of the protection device 4 close to the handheld portion 1 to the sampling head 5 needs to be greater than or equal to the distance from the mouth to the throat of the patient, and the protection device 4 is arranged close to the one end of the handheld portion 1, so that the length of the connecting rod 3 can be reduced, the length of the test tube 2 is further reduced, the size of the throat swab is reduced, the cost is saved, and the placement space is saved. The protection device 4 is a transparent component, such as a plastic component, a soft glass component and the like, and is convenient for an acquirer to observe the condition of a collecting part of a patient when collecting a specimen. The guard 4 can be unfolded into an umbrella-shaped member having an opening facing the sampling head 5, and when the pharyngeal swab is not used, the umbrella-shaped member is tightened in the test tube 2, as shown in fig. 1. When using the pharyngeal swab to collect a patient sample, the sampling head 5 is removed from the test tube 2 and the shielding device 4 can be unfolded into an umbrella-shaped member without the walls of the test tube 2 restraining it, as shown in figure 2. The umbrella-shaped component can be convenient for shelter from patient's oral area and nose, and then blocks droplet, the aerosol that produces when patient opens one's mouth pronunciation. And protector 4 can be accomodate in advance in test tube 2, be favorable to increasing protector 4's protective area does benefit to simultaneously reducing the size of pharynx swab.

The protecting device 4 is provided with a supporting component, which is not shown in fig. 1 for the convenience of viewing, for supporting the protecting device 4 to keep the shape after being unfolded, so as to improve the protecting effect. As shown in fig. 2-3, the supporting member is a plurality of supporting rods, all the supporting rods are uniformly arranged, one end of each supporting rod is connected with the protection device 4, the other end of each supporting rod is connected with the sampling portion, and the size of the opening of the umbrella-shaped member can be adjusted by the supporting rods. In this embodiment, the support rod may be a multi-section support, two adjacent sections may be hinged or telescopically connected, and the size of the opening of the umbrella-shaped member is adjusted by changing the distance between the two ends of the support rod, so as to be adapted to the occlusion of the mouth and nose of different patients.

Specifically, the supporting rod comprises a first section 61 and a second section 62, one end of the first section 61 is connected to the inner side of the umbrella-shaped member, the other end of the first section is hinged to one end of the second section 62, and the second section 62 is detachably connected to the sampling part. The distance between the two end parts of the supporting rod is changed by changing the hinge angle between the first section 61 and the second section 62, so that the size of the opening of the umbrella-shaped component is adjusted to adapt to the occlusion of the mouth and the nose of different patients. And the umbrella-shaped member can be dismantled connect in on the connecting rod 3, through with section two 62 with connecting rod 3 unpacks apart, makes the umbrella-shaped member separation the sample portion is convenient for change protector 4 on the connecting rod 3, and after gathering the sample from patient's oral area, is convenient for take off the umbrella-shaped member, then put into the culture medium 21 of test tube 2 bottom with the sample of gathering. And the protective device 4 can be repeatedly used after being detached from the connecting rod 3, so that the cost is saved.

As better embodiment, connecting rod 3 with the cotton swab is constituteed to sampling head 5, just handheld portion 1 can dismantle connect in sampling portion can be through changing the cotton swab, reuse handheld portion 1 material saving and cost.

When collecting the sample, the collection personnel holds the handheld part 1, detaches the handheld part 1 and the test tube 2, the label is destroyed, then the sampling head 5 is moved out of the test tube 2, the umbrella-shaped member is unfolded by adjusting the hinging angle of the first section 61 and the second section 62, then the sampling head 5 is stretched into the throat of the patient, the support part is adjusted to enable the umbrella-shaped member to shield the mouth and the nose of the patient, spray and aerosol generated when the patient opens the mouth to make a sound are blocked, then the throat of the patient are observed and the sample is collected, the sample is taken out from the mouth of the patient after being successfully collected, then the umbrella-shaped member is detached from the connecting rod 3, then the sampling head 5 is sent back to the test tube 2, the sampling head 5 is enabled to enter the culture medium 21 at the bottom of the test tube 2, and then the tube orifice of the test tube 2 is covered by the handheld part 1, information about the collected specimen is then recorded on the label.

Use when pharynx swab gathers patient's sample, can block droplet, aerosol that produce when patient opens one's mouth pronunciation when gathering the sample, reduce the risk that is infected when gathering personnel uses pharynx swab to gather patient's sample, and each pharynx swab is equipped with a corresponding cultivation test tube 2, having culture medium 21 in test tube 2, can in time send into the sample after gathering the sample in corresponding test tube 2, avoiding the sample of gathering to receive external pollution, and can improve the efficiency of gathering the sample, making whole sample collection process compacter and convenient. Just protector 4 adopts transparent umbrella-type component, shelters from patient's oral area and nose when being convenient for gather personnel and sample, and can observe the condition at patient collection position when the person of gathering gathers the sample, makes the sampling more convenient.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, as any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a pharynx swab, its characterized in that, includes handheld portion (1), connection in test tube (2) opening part can be dismantled in handheld portion (1), be equipped with sample portion in test tube (2), sample portion connects handheld portion (1), sample portion contains sampling head (5), sampling head (5) with still be equipped with protector (4) between handheld portion (1).

2. A pharyngeal swab according to claim 1, characterised in that the protective means (4) can be deployed as an umbrella-shaped member, the opening of which faces the sampling head (5).

3. A pharyngeal swab according to claim 2, characterised in that the protective device (4) is provided with a support element.

4. A pharyngeal swab according to claim 3, characterised in that said support means are a plurality of support rods comprising a first segment (61) and a second segment (62), said first segment (61) being connected at one end inside said protection means (4) and at the other end being hinged to one end of said second segment (62), said second segment (62) being connected at the other end to said sampling portion, said support rods being able to adjust the size of the opening of said protection means (4).

5. A pharyngeal swab according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that said protection means (4) is a transparent element.

6. A pharyngeal swab according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that said sampling part comprises a connecting rod (3), said connecting rod (3) being connected at one end to said handle (1) and at the other end to said sampling head (5).

7. A pharyngeal swab according to claim 6, characterised in that said protection means (4) are removably connected to said connecting rod (3).

8. A pharyngeal swab according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the sampling portion is a cotton swab, the handle portion (1) being removably connected to the sampling portion.

9. A pharyngeal swab according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that said test tube (2) has a culture medium (21) therein, said sampling head (5) being able to be placed in said culture medium (21).

10. A pharyngeal swab according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the connection between the handle (1) and the test tube (2) is provided with a label.