RU2494720C2 - Device for feeding people with maxillofacial wounds and diseases - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, in particular to surgery and dentistry, and can be used in maxillofacial surgery and surgical dentistry for feeding people with maxillofacial wounds and patients with defects of soft tissues of near-mouth area and impaired function of supping. Device for feeding people with maxillofacial wounds and patients contains probe, additionally contains elastic resilient element, made according to patient's mouth. Resilient element tightly embraces lips from the oral cavity side and from the side of red hem, in the centre of the element there is a section, made from thinner elastic material with hole, in which probe is placed.

EFFECT: providing feeding people with maxillofacial wounds and patients with defects of soft tissues of near-mouth area and impaired function of supping.

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Description

The invention relates to medicine, in particular to surgery and dentistry, and can be used in maxillofacial surgery and surgical dentistry for feeding the maxillofacial wounded and sick.

Currently, for feeding the maxillofacial wounded and patients with preserved functions of chewing, swallowing and impaired function of sipping or suction (observed in patients with soft tissue defects in the oral area, when it is impossible to create a closing valve with the lips of the mouth when bringing food to the mouth) use: spoon file holder V.V. Fialkovsky - A.A. Nesmeyanova, a drinker. In addition, probe feeding methods are used for patients with impaired siphoning function: using a drinking bowl with a drainage rubber tube 10–13 mm in diameter 25–30 cm long, or a stomach tube and funnel, a Janet syringe, and a graduated drinker (B. K. Kostur, LR Balon. Orthopedic apparatus design and feeding technique for maxillofacial and ENT patients. - L .: Medicine (Leningrad department), 1979. - P.56-57).

The maxillofacial wounded and sick are fed with crushed or mashed food, taking into account the consistency and volume of the pharynx. Moreover, the optimal volume of the pharynx is determined by intuitively serving middle or junior medical personnel based on the average physiological level of 10-15 ml, and is controlled by the patient himself. Often with this feeding, patients themselves are not able to take the nutrient mixture. The rapid simultaneous administration of large volume liquid food is not justifiable from a physiological point of view.

Known apparatus proposed by M.A. Slepchenko - A.A. Nesmeyanov, who, in addition to self-eating meals in portions to patients, provides for its heating (Military dentistry: Textbook / edited by Professor G.I. Prohvatilov. - SPb: VMedA, ELBI, 2008. - P.445).

The disadvantage of the apparatus M.A. Slepchenko - A.A. Nesmeyanova is the inability to provide patients with a sip of food on their own and to control the volume of the pharynx, which is non-physiological and is of great importance when feeding wounded with defects in soft tissues of the oral cavity, including lips.

As a prototype, we chose a probe for food in the stomach in separate portions under pressure, B.K. Kostur proposed a device for tube feeding of maxillofacial and ENT patients (B.K. Kostur, LR Balon. Orthopedic apparatus design and feeding technique for maxillofacial and ENT patients. - L .: Medicine (Leningrad department), 1979. - S. 62-63).

The disadvantage of this device is the inability to provide patients with an independent physiological meal and regulate the volume of the pharynx and the rate of introduction of food.

The purpose of the invention is to improve the device for feeding the maxillofacial wounded and patients with impaired function of slurping by providing patients with self-eating, regulating the volume of the pharynx and the speed of food intake.

The goal is achieved in that the device for feeding the maxillofacial wounded and sick contains a probe, and further comprises an elastic elastic element made in the shape of the patient’s mouth, tightly covering the lips, on the side of the oral cavity and on the side of the red border, in the center of the element contains a section, made of thinner elastic material with a hole in which the probe is placed.

In FIG. presents a general view of the device.

The device for feeding the maxillofacial wounded and sick contains a probe (1), and further comprises an elastic elastic element (2), made in the shape of the patient’s mouth, tightly covering the lips, on the side of the oral cavity and on the side of the red border, in the center of the element contains a section (3) made of thinner elastic material with an opening (4) in which the probe (1) is placed.

Eating using the proposed device is as follows.

The device is installed with its elastic external elastic rubber element (2) on the edges of the soft tissues of the oral cavity (lips) so that the tissue made of elastic material tightly overlaps the oral cavity, and part of the probe (1) is located between the upper and lower jaws. The other end of the probe (1) is placed in a vessel with liquid food and the patient, performing chewing movements with the jaws, sucks the food in a volume convenient for him and at the speed necessary for him, without resorting to outside help. This is due to the movements of the section (3) contained in the element (2)

The device can be used to feed the maxillofacial and patients with impaired function of slurping in stationary medical institutions and field hospitals of the MO and Ministry of Emergencies.

Claims (1)

A device for feeding the maxillofacial wounded and sick, containing a probe, characterized in that it further comprises an elastic elastic element made in the shape of the patient’s mouth, tightly covering the lips, on the side of the oral cavity and on the side of the red border, in the center of the element contains a section made of thinner elastic material with a hole in which the probe is placed.

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