Patent ID: 9675295
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: applying sufficient vacuum to a vacuum chamber so as to effect passage of a subject's anatomy into the vacuum chamber into and through a gap between a proximal opening of the vacuum chamber and a proximal opening of a urethral engagement conduit, the vacuum chamber having a wall and an interior volume, the proximal opening of the vacuum chamber being defined by an edge of the wall of the vacuum chamber, the urethral engagement conduit having a wall and extending through the interior volume of the vacuum chamber, the interior volume of the vacuum chamber being defined between the wall of the vacuum chamber and the wall of the urethral engagement conduit, the urethral engagement conduit having a proximal opening defined by an edge of the wall of the urethral engagement conduit and the proximal opening of the urethral engagement conduit being configured to engage the tissue proximate to the subject's urethra such that the subject's urethra is placed into fluid communication with the urethral engagement conduit, and measuring, as a function of time during urine excretion, a pressure within a receptacle in fluid communication with the urethral engagement conduit.