Patent ID: 8337476

Claim:
A urine collection monitoring system comprising: a) a pressure chamber, comprising: i) a hollow body having an input port for coupling to a tube connected to a catheter for collection of urine from a patient, an exit port and at least one vent port; ii) a vent located at the vent port, such that air may flow through the vent, but urine is blocked by the vent; b) a flow sensor for measuring a quantity of urine flowing from the exit port of the pressure chamber at both a continuous flow and a discrete flow wherein the flow sensor is configured to measure: (i) the quantity flowing at the continuous flow, based upon a pressure in the hollow body, and (ii) the quantity flowing at the discrete flow, by counting discrete units of fluid flowing from the exit port; c) a urine collection container coupled to the exit port of the pressure chamber; and d) a controller having an input coupled to the flow sensor.