Endoscopic Chest Tube Insertion Guide for Real-Time Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current chest tube insertion methods lack real-time visualization of the thoracic cavity structures and disease states, leading to potential organ damage and improper tube placement during procedures.
Innovation Solution
A chest tube insertion device utilizing an endoscopic guide with a flexibly bendable tube insertion guide body, an endoscope, and a transparent lens, allowing for real-time imaging and safe insertion of the chest tube through a monitor, enabling accurate positioning and removal of components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional chest tube insertion methods are used, then the procedure can be performed without complex equipment, but real-time visualization of thoracic cavity structures is impossible leading to potential organ damage and improper tube placement
Solution Approach 1:
The endoscope is inserted through a tube line within the tube insertion guide body, creating a nested configuration where the imaging device is contained within the guidance structure. This allows real-time visualization capability to be integrated into the insertion device without significantly increasing overall complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The tube insertion guide body serves as an intermediary structure that simultaneously provides mechanical guidance for the chest tube and houses the endoscope for visualization. This mediator component integrates both guidance and imaging functions, improving placement accuracy while managing device complexity
2Reliability
If multiple tube lines are used to accommodate endoscope and chest tube separately, then real-time imaging and safe insertion are enabled, but device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The tube insertion guide body is segmented into multiple separate tube lines - one for the endoscope and another for the chest tube. This segmentation allows independent routing and control of each component, enabling safe simultaneous insertion while maintaining a manageable structure through functional separation
3Ease of operation
If the tube insertion guide body is made flexibly bendable, then safe insertion into thoracic cavity is achieved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tube insertion guide body is constructed from materials and structures that allow change in flexibility parameters during use. The guide body can be pre-formed with specific curvature for insertion, then adjusted to accommodate anatomical variations, balancing ease of insertion with manufacturing considerations through controllable flexibility parameters
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a chest tube insertion device using an endoscopic guide, the device having a structure comprising: a tube insertion guide body which is made from a transparent or semitransparent synthetic resin material and which is introduced into the thoracic cavity of the human body while being flexibly bendable, an endoscopic tube disposed inside the tube insertion guide body; a chest tube formed as a structure for encompassing the outer side of the tube insertion guide body, so as to be spaced from the endoscopic tube; a guide holder for performing an endoscopic guide function and a tube insertion guide body fixing function when the tube insertion guide body is inserted into the thoracic cavity; and a handle part to which the guide holder is separably coupled.