US 11,690,752 B2
Method of providing an ostomy device that is shape-adjustable to conform to a bulge or a hernia associated with a stoma
Rene Ferm Nyberg, Hilleroed (DK); Richard Morgan Hickmott, Helsingoer (DK); Marie Bay Borg, Broenshoej (DK); Martin Pråme, Svedala (SE); Claus Oellgaard, Fredensborg (DK); and Niels Pinholt, Roskilde (DK)
Assigned to Coloplast A/S, Humlebaek (DK)
Filed by Coloplast A/S, Humlebaek (DK)
Filed on May 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/331,668.
Application 17/331,668 is a continuation of application No. 15/558,644, granted, now 11,051,969, previously published as PCT/DK2016/050074, filed on Mar. 16, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. PA 2015 70150 (DK), filed on Mar. 16, 2015; application No. PA 2015 70215 (DK), filed on Apr. 14, 2015; and application No. PA 2015 70585 (DK), filed on Sep. 11, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0282959 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 5/443 (2006.01); A61F 5/445 (2006.01); A61F 5/44 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/443 (2013.01) [A61F 5/445 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of providing a user or a healthcare worker with an ostomy device that is shape-adjustable to conform to skin around a stoma associated with a bulge or a hernia, the method comprising:
providing the user or the healthcare worker with: an adaptable ostomy base plate comprising a film having a distal surface that defines a distal side of the adaptable ostomy base plate and a first adhesive on a proximal surface of the film such that the first adhesive forms a proximal side of the adaptable ostomy base plate, and a reinforcing structure comprising an outer radial periphery attached to the distal surface of the film and an inner radial periphery unattached to the distal surface of the film;
delivering the adaptable ostomy base plate to the user or the healthcare worker in a storage configuration characterized by the first adhesive and the proximal side of the adaptable ostomy base plate each in a substantially convex shape; and
configuring the adaptable ostomy base plate for inverting from the storage configuration to a use configuration upon inverting the substantially convex shape of the first adhesive and the proximal side of the adaptable ostomy base plate to a substantially concave shape and stabilizing the adaptable ostomy base plate in the use configuration by contacting the inner radial periphery of the reinforcing structure with the distal surface of the film.