US 11,938,054 B2
Bodily waste and fluid collection with sacral pad
Jill W. Jones, Avondale Estates, GA (US); Hoang D. Nguyen, Smyrna, GA (US); Cecille Canary, Atlanta, GA (US); Chris M. Fodouop, Atlanta, GA (US); Caroline Bunn, Atlanta, GA (US); and Collen Shields Bland, Marietta, GA (US)
Assigned to PureWick Corporation, Covington, GA (US)
Filed by PureWick Corporation, El Cajon, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/654,156.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/159,280, filed on Mar. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287867 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 5/451 (2006.01); A61F 5/44 (2006.01); A61M 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/451 (2013.01) [A61F 5/4405 (2013.01); A61F 5/4408 (2013.01); A61M 1/60 (2021.05); A61M 2202/0496 (2013.01); A61M 2202/068 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bodily waste collection apparatus, comprising:
a sacral pad including an adhesive disposed on a wearer-facing side thereof; and
a bodily waste collection device attached to a lower portion of the sacral pad and positioned to receive bodily waste from the anus of a wearer, the bodily waste collection device including:
a fluid impermeable casing defining an interior region therein and defining an opening through which the interior region communicates with an external environment;
a permeable material at least partially disposed in the interior region and extending across at least a portion of the opening; and
a conduit disposed within the bodily waste collection device.