Patent ID: 6059735
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A portable device intended for sampling a body fluid in an intracorporeal cavity, comprising a tube adapted for introduction into said cavity, a rod mounted slidably in said tube and having at its proximal end a gripping end which emerges from said tube, and having at its distal end two branches capable of being spaced apart angularly, each branch including a free and distal end provided with an element for sampling of the body fluid, said rod being capable of assuming at least two relative positions with respect to said tube, namely a retracted position in which the two branches are drawn together and said sampling elements protrude at the distal end of the tube, and in which said device is introduced into said intracorporeal cavity, and outside of said intracorporeal cavity a deployed position in which said branches spread apart outside of said tube at its distal end, and in which said device is adapted for extemporaneous measurement between the two sampling elements of the spinnbarkeit of the body fluid sampled in said retracted position in said intracorporeal cavity.