Patent ID: 6027489
Filing Date: 2000-02-22
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A device for alternate sterile connection of a drain tube and feed tube to one end of a peritoneal catheter which catheter is adapted to be permanently attached to a patient at the other end for treating the patient with dialysis liquid, the device comprising:a shell in which a first chamber, a second chamber and a connection channel between said chambers are formed and filled with a disinfecting liquid, wherein said chambers include respective couplings for releasable and repeatable alternative coupling of said peritoneal catheter to said drain tube and to said feed tube with said chambers in conditions of full immersion of the couplings in the disinfecting liquid whereby a tight sterile connection between said catheter and, alternately, said drain and feed tubes occurs during treatment of the patient so that the device is reusable for successive feeding and draining procedures.