CN218304959U

CN218304959U - Sputum specimen collecting container for respiratory infectious disease patient

Info

Publication number: CN218304959U
Application number: CN202221693204.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 袁征; 郑峥; 李晶晶; 倪思康
Original assignee: Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University
Current assignee: Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University
Priority date: 2022-07-04
Filing date: 2022-07-04
Publication date: 2023-01-17
Anticipated expiration: 2032-07-04

Abstract

The utility model discloses a sputum sample collection container for respiratory infectious disease patients, which solves the problems that the prior sputum collector is easy to cause spray pollution and the detection accuracy is affected due to improper collection operation; the mask is provided with an opening, and the surface of the mask is integrally connected with a connecting pipe; the pipe orifice of the collecting pipe is provided with external spiral threads, and the inner side wall of the port of the sealing cover is provided with internal spiral threads; the inner side wall of the connecting pipe is also provided with inner spiral threads; the collection pipe is transparent body, and the lateral wall of collection pipe vertically is provided with body capacity scale mark, recommends the sample scale mark and follows body circumference extension mark, the utility model discloses a sputum sample collection container of respiratory infectious disease patient can conveniently carry out the collection of sputum, effectively prevents the pollution that the sputum droplet caused, reduces the pollution to the sample simultaneously, improves the efficiency of sampling, improves and detects the accuracy.

Description

Sputum specimen collecting container for respiratory infectious disease patient

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a phlegm sample collection container, in particular to a phlegm sample collection container of respiratory infectious disease patient.

Background

Respiratory infectious diseases refer to infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms invading organisms from nasal cavities, throats, tracheas, bronchi and other parts of human bodies, have the characteristics of complex types, rapid spread, strong infectivity, easiness in crowd control and the like, are very easy to outbreak and difficult to control, can cause social safety problems, cause people to panic and cause economic loss. In recent years, respiratory infectious diseases which are serious harm to human beings include SARS, human avian influenza, influenza A H1N1, novel coronavirus pneumonia and the like, cough and expectoration are common symptoms of the diseases, droplets and aerosols of pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi attached to infectious disease patients are spread along with air in the cough and expectoration process, and all healthy people (particularly clinical medical workers and patient care personnel) belong to susceptible people of respiratory infectious diseases. Studies have shown that the infection rate of infectious diseases of the respiratory tract is often dependent on the concentration of infectious droplets in the air and the length of time it takes to remain in the environment, and a small amount of pathogenic microorganisms is sufficient to infect one person. Respiratory tract isolation is an isolation method adopted for diseases transmitted by pathogenic microorganisms through respiratory tracts, and plays an important role in controlling respiratory infectious diseases.

In the process of diagnosing and treating respiratory infectious disease patients, pathogenic microorganisms are searched through sputum, which is one of very important examination means, and in places such as hospitals where diseases are concentrated, whether the sputum treatment properly and directly affects the health quality of patients and other people is determined, so the performance quality of a sputum specimen collection container is very important. The main contents of the sputum specimen collection container performance evaluation include sealing, leakage prevention, safety protection, specimen inspection, result quality and the like.

At present, a sputum specimen collection container which is commonly used clinically is a disposable sterile sputum cup, is a round container which is flat-bottomed, wide-mouthed, sterile, transparent and provided with a screw cap, and a container body and a container cover of the container are sealed by a plurality of spiral sealing lines, but the container is easy to have infectious droplets to cause infection and pollution to adjacent personnel and environment when a patient uses and samples; meanwhile, the operation of a patient is difficult to accurately operate during sampling, the quantity of collected samples is easy to be insufficient, the influence on final detection can be caused, and a space for improvement is reserved.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at providing a respiratory infectious disease patient's phlegm sample collection container can conveniently carry out the collection of sputum, effectively prevents the pollution that the sputum droplet caused, reduces the pollution to the sample simultaneously, improves the efficiency of sampling, improves and detects the accuracy.

The above technical purpose of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions:

a sputum specimen collecting container for respiratory infectious disease patients comprises a face mask, a collecting tube and a sealing cover;

the mask is provided with an opening, the edge of the opening is attached to the face of the user and covers the mouth and the nose of the user, and the surface of the mask is integrally connected with a connecting pipe communicated and connected with the collecting pipe; the pipe opening of the collecting pipe is provided with external spiral threads, and the inner side wall of the port of the sealing cover is provided with internal spiral threads which are hermetically connected with the collecting pipe;

the inner diameter of the connecting pipe is matched with the outer diameter of the pipe orifice of the collecting pipe, and the inner side wall of the connecting pipe is provided with inner spiral threads which can be in threaded connection with the pipe orifice of the collecting pipe;

the collecting pipe is a transparent pipe body, the outer side wall of the collecting pipe is longitudinally provided with pipe body capacity scale marks and recommended sampling scale marks, and the recommended sampling scale marks extend along the circumferential direction of the pipe body to be marked.

To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:

the mask which can cover the mouth and the nose of the face is connected with the collecting pipe for collection, so that the sputum droplets containing pathogenic microorganisms can be prevented from being diffused and spread during sampling, the spread of pathogenic microorganisms related to respiratory infectious diseases in the air is reduced, and the pollution risk to adjacent people and the surrounding environment is reduced; the mask and the sealing cover are in threaded connection with the collection pipe, so that the sealing performance after assembly is better, the sealing cover can be used for sealing and storing an empty pipe of the collection pipe and a sample after sampling, the sterile state of the container before collection is kept, the leakage of sputum in the transportation process is prevented, the pollution possibility is reduced, and the accuracy of a detection result is ensured; the transparent and scale mark of the collecting pipe can facilitate the observation and control during the collection, facilitate the use of patients, improve the success rate and efficiency of the sampling, and improve the overall use efficiency, convenience, sanitation and safety.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of each part of a sputum specimen collection container;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a specific structure of a collection tube.

In the figure: 1. a face mask; 12. a connecting pipe; 2. a collection tube; 21. external spiral threads; 22. pipe body capacity scale marks; 23. recommending sampling scale marks; 24. a circular pipe section; 25. a conical cavity bottom; 3. and (7) sealing the cover.

Detailed Description

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

According to one or more embodiments, disclosed is a sputum specimen collection container for patients with respiratory infectious diseases, as shown in fig. 1, comprising a face mask 1, a collection tube 2 and a sealing cover 3. Gather pipe 2 and be used for gathering the sputum and preserve, sealed lid 3 is used for sealing up the mouth of pipe of gathering pipe 2, and face guard 1 is used for supplying the patient to wear to gather in the pipe 2 after.

The mask 1 is worn by a patient and is provided with an opening, the edge of the opening is attached to the face of the patient, and the mouth and the nose are covered in the mask 1. According to the position relation after wearing, face guard 1 includes upper portion pointed end and lower part circular arc end, whole opening is the water droplet form, shelter from the nasion department at the patient through upper portion pointed end, lower part circular arc end shelters from at the patient chin, the both sides cheek of opening edge laminating patient's mouth nose, thereby establish a relative confined sputum sample collection space, the patient expectorates again and stays the sputum sample afterwards, face guard 1 alright play the effect of isolated sputum droplet in the sample collection process, prevent the propagation of the relevant pathogenic microorganism of respiratory infectious disease in the air, reduce the risk of feeling to neighbouring personnel and polluting the surrounding environment.

Face guard 1's surperficial body coupling has connecting pipe 12, and according to the state when the patient wears, connecting pipe 12 sets up the position of wearing the back and mouth alignment, and then can be more high-efficient when making the sample collection. The surface of face guard 1 all is the crooked transition of radian to connecting pipe 12 from open-ended edge, can improve the comfort level when wearing and reduce remaining in the face guard 1 simultaneously, and connecting pipe 12 is the outside tubulose setting that extends in face guard 1 surface, smooth connection between the inside wall of connecting pipe 12 and face guard 1.

Gather pipe 2's mouth of pipe lateral wall and seted up outer spiral line 21, the internal diameter of connecting pipe 12 of face guard 1 and sealed lid 3 and the orificial external diameter phase-match of gathering pipe 2, connecting pipe 12 and the inside wall of sealed lid 3 at face guard 1 all correspond be provided with the outer spiral line 21 assorted of the mouth of pipe of gathering pipe 2 interior spiral line, when sampling, gather the operation on gathering pipe 2 through connecting pipe 12 threaded connection of face guard 1, gather pipe 2 after empty pipe and the collection and seal through sealed lid 3, carry out sealing connection through the spiral seal line, sealing strength has been improved, the weeping risk has been reduced, reduce and gather pipe 2 and external contact, can keep the clean of empty pipe also can guarantee the sealed save of sampling back sputum sample simultaneously, avoid arousing the risk that the transportation sputum sample pollutes and reveals.

As shown in fig. 2, the collection tube 2 is a transparent cylindrical tube body, through which a patient can clearly observe the amount of a specific collected sputum sample when using the collection tube 2 to collect the sputum sample; the outer side wall of the tube body is longitudinally provided with tube body capacity scale marks 22 along the height direction, and the tube body capacity scale marks are used for checking and judging the sample capacity collected in the tube body. Still be provided with and recommend sample scale mark 23, recommend sample scale mark 23 to extend to both sides along body circumference in 22 departments of body capacity scale mark, and recommend sample scale mark 23's width be greater than body capacity scale mark 22's width, and is more obvious, can remind the patient, ensures that the patient clearly detects the quantity and keeps away the accuracy of getting sufficient sample volume in order to guarantee the testing result, avoids the sample volume not enough and influences final testing result.

The inner cavity of collection tube 2 is divided into a circular tube segment 24 and a conical cavity bottom 25. The round pipe section 24 is close to the pipe orifice of the collecting pipe 2, the conical cavity bottom 25 is connected with the round pipe section 24, and the inner cavity of the collecting pipe 2 is divided into two sections through the round pipe section 24 and the conical cavity bottom 25. The currently used disposable aseptic sputum cup is of a flat bottom structure, so that sputum can be only distributed at the bottom of the cup in a dispersing way, cell components and pathogenic microorganisms of the sputum cannot be collected conveniently, and the sputum is dried after being stored for a long time, so that the cells and the pathogenic microorganisms are deformed, cracked or volatilized, and the detection rate is possibly reduced. The setting of toper chamber bottom 25 enables the sputum to gather in the container bottom, is favorable to collecting the cellular components and the pathogenic microorganism of sputum, also is convenient for the save and the extraction of sputum sample simultaneously, plays the effect of protection sample quality and assurance result accuracy. The circular segment 24 and the conical cavity bottom 25 are preferably maintained equal in height, and the inner diameter of the collection tube 2 is configured to be greater than the height of the conical cavity bottom 25 and less than the overall height of the tube body. According to the required volume of the sample, for example, the volume of the collecting tube 2 can be designed to be 20ml, the inner diameter of the collecting tube 2 can be set to be 3cm, the height of the circular tube section 24 and the conical cavity bottom 25 can be set to be 2.0cm, and the volume combination of 5ml of the conical cavity bottom and 15ml of the circular tube section can be realized.

Gather pipe 2, sealed lid 3 and face guard 1 and all prefer to adopt PP polypropylene material integrated into one piece, and overall cost is more economical, and integrated into one piece makes structural seal nature higher.

The operation uses:

when the collecting pipe 2 is stored in an empty pipe, the opening of the collecting pipe 2 is sealed in a threaded manner through the sealing cover 3, so that the cleanness of the inner cavity of the collecting pipe 2 is ensured;

when sputum collection is needed, the sealing cover 3 is screwed off, and the connecting pipe 12 of the mask 1 is screwed to the pipe orifice of the collection pipe 2;

aligning the opening of the mask 1 to the face of a patient, covering the mouth and the nose, expectorating the patient into the collection tube 2 through the connecting tube 12 of the mask 1, and controlling the sample collection amount by observing the tube body capacity scale line 22 and the recommended sampling scale line 23 on the outer side wall of the collection tube 2;

after accomplishing the collection, screw off face guard 1, carry out thread sealing to the mouth of pipe of gathering pipe 2 through sealed lid 3 once more, seal the save sputum sample, face guard 1 abandons the processing as medical discarded object.

The present embodiment is only for explaining the present invention, and it is not limited to the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make modifications to the present embodiment without inventive contribution as required after reading the present specification, but all of them are protected by patent laws within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A sputum specimen collection container for respiratory infectious disease patients is characterized in that: comprises a face mask (1), a collecting pipe (2) and a sealing cover (3);

the face mask (1) is provided with an opening, the edge of the opening is attached to the face of the face mask and the opening covers the mouth and the nose of the face mask, and the surface of the face mask (1) is integrally connected with a connecting pipe (12) communicated and connected with the collecting pipe (2); the pipe opening of the collecting pipe (2) is provided with external spiral threads (21), and the inner side wall of the port of the sealing cover (3) is provided with internal spiral threads which are hermetically connected with the collecting pipe (2);

the inner diameter of the connecting pipe (12) is matched with the outer diameter of the pipe orifice of the collecting pipe (2), and the inner side wall of the connecting pipe (12) is provided with inner spiral threads which can be in threaded connection with the pipe orifice of the collecting pipe (2);

the collecting pipe (2) is a transparent pipe body, the outer side wall of the collecting pipe (2) is longitudinally provided with pipe body capacity scale marks (22), recommended sampling scale marks (23) are further arranged, and the recommended sampling scale marks (23) extend along the circumferential direction of the pipe body to be marked.

2. The sputum specimen collection container for a patient with an infectious respiratory disease according to claim 1, wherein: the collecting tube (2) is cylindrical, and the inner cavity of the collecting tube (2) comprises a round tube section (24) close to the tube opening end and a conical cavity bottom (25) connected with the round tube section (24).

3. The sputum specimen collection container for a patient with an infectious respiratory disease according to claim 2, wherein: the circular pipe section (24) and the conical cavity bottom (25) are equal in height, and the diameter of the collecting pipe (2) is larger than the height of the conical cavity bottom (25) and smaller than the overall height of the pipe body.

4. The sputum specimen collection container for a patient with an infectious respiratory disease according to claim 1, wherein: the connecting pipe (12) is arranged at a position which is aligned with the mouth after the mask (1) is worn; the surface of the mask (1) is in arc-shaped bent transition from the opening edge to the connecting pipe (12).

5. The sputum specimen collection container for a patient with an infectious respiratory disease according to claim 1, wherein: the collecting pipe (2), the sealing cover (3) and the mask (1) are all integrally formed bodies made of PP polypropylene materials.

6. The sputum specimen collection container for a patient with an infectious respiratory disease according to claim 1, wherein: the width of the recommended sampling scale mark (23) is larger than that of the pipe body capacity scale mark (22).