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8172802 |
Intravascular needle and catheter assembly
An intravascular needle and catheter arrangement that ensures flashback is indicated after the catheter is safely inserted through the needle puncture in the vascular wall and emplaced into the...
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8088119 |
Methods and devices for treating tissue
Device and method are provided for diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries to the spine by injecting drugs into the diseased or injured area. The device and method of the subject invention...
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8029495 |
Intrathecal catheter having a stylet with a curved tip and method of use
An apparatus includes a catheter for an intrathecal drug delivery system and a stylet having a curved forward end. Preferably, the curved forward end has a shape in the form of a “J” or a “C....
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7993303 |
Stiffening support catheter and methods for using the same
A support catheter that can puncture a heart septum with a guidewire without buckling and that can access difficult to reach arteries such as carotid or renal arteries from the aorta under...
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7635353 |
Transseptal puncture needles and needle assemblies
The instant invention is directed toward transseptal puncture needles and transseptal puncture needle assemblies. More specifically, it relates to curved transseptal puncture needles and needle...
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7201738 |
Catheter for providing a fluid connection with the small intestine
Probe for providing a fluid connection with the small intestine comprising a tube (10) to be inserted in the small intestine via the stomach, having proximal and distal open ends (10A, 10B) and...
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7192433 |
Locking vascular introducer assembly with adjustable hemostatic seal
A vascular introducer assembly is disclosed that includes a dilator, a sheath having an axial lumen for accommodating the dilator, a locking collar for securing the dilator and the sheath to one...
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6981969 |
Orthogonal Arterial Catheter
An orthogonal arterial catheter preferably includes a hub and a cannula. The hub preferably protects the cannula from potential kinking and shearing forces because the cannula upon exiting a...
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6969373 |
Syringe system
A medical device is provided having a needle or a catheter, insertable into a living body, which defines a plurality of holes in fluid communication with a central lumen. The holes may be of...
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6508789 |
Systems and methods for coupling a drainage catheter to a patient and decoupling the drainage catheter from the patient
Systems and methods for coupling a catheter, such as a drainage catheter, to a patient's body and decoupling the catheter from the body are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention take...
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6358229 |
Urinary drain
A urinary drain device comprising an elongated flexible tube member whose distal end portion is preformed so as to assume a coiled configuration when unconstrained. The distal end portion also...
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6302870 |
Apparatus for injecting fluids into the walls of blood vessels, body cavities, and the like
Apparatus for injecting fluids into the walls of blood vessels, body cavities, and the like, includes a plurality of laterally flexible needles disposed in a catheter for exit either out the distal...
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6228071 |
Devices and methods for cannulating a blood vessel
A cannula has a distal portion which is angled relative to a proximal portion. The distal portion is straightened during introduction with a stiffening element. After introduction, the stiffening...
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5944690 |
Slidable control mechanism for steerable catheter
A steerable catheter control mechanism for manipulating a pair of catheter control wires comprises a slider mechanism coupled to the proximal ends of the control wires and displaceable along a...
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5910133 |
Transintimal recanalisation device
A transintimal recanalization device comprising a guide tube (2) having a bend (C) in its length, a flexible needle (1) having a bevelled end (A) and a bend (C') in its length and located in said...
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5891057 |
Carotid artery angioplasty guiding system
A method and apparatus for performing an angioplasty of a patient's carotid artery includes a placement of a first elongated positioning catheter having a lumen and proximal and distal end portions...
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5868733 |
Guiding introducer system for use in the treatment of accessory pathways around the mitral valve using a retrograde approach
A process for the mapping and/or ablating of accessory pathways around the mitral valve using a retrograde approach by use of ablating and/or mapping catheters guided by a guiding introducer...
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5843113 |
Endocystotomy tool
A new endocystotomy tool for suprapubic cystostomy has a rigid sound, said rigid sound having standard configuration such as a standard Van Buren urethral sound. Said rigid sound having a distal...
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5843002 |
Guide wire dispenser apparatus and method
A storage and dispensing apparatus for a springy guide wire used in medical procedures includes a coiled tubular portion defined by elongate tubing with a bore for receiving the guide wire. A ring...
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5840065 |
Feeding tube and method
A feeding tube having an internal end portion and an external end portion. An external terminal end positioned on said external end portion. The feeding tube defines a feeding lumen therethrough...
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5702344 |
Safe endoscopic accessory
An endoscopic accessory comprising a catheter with axial walls defining an interior area, an elongated tool shaft slidably positioned within the interior area of the catheter, an endoscopic tool...
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5697365 |
Endotracheal tube construction and method for intubating a patient
An endotracheal tube construction includes an elongated kink resistant flexible tubular member having distal and proximal ends with a curved portion therebetween. The tubular member defines a major...
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5693030 |
Catheter and method of introduction
A split tipped catheter for cavitary entrance has a conical distal tip with a bore sized to receive an introducer needle. The conical tip wall is split on one side, permitting the wall to be opened...
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5669882 |
Curved epidural needle system
A needle and stylus system. The system has a hollow tubular needle formed of a rigid material. The needle has an elongated linear intermediate section constituting the majority of the length of the...
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5658262 |
Catheter exchange method
A first catheter surrounds a guidewire, with the first catheter and guidewire each having a distal portion emplaced in the cardiovascular system of a patient. By this invention, the first catheter...
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5549563 |
Reinforcing insert for uterine manipulator
A stiffener device is usable with a uterine manipulator having a catheter tube and outer sheath. The catheter tube is formed in an arc and has an insertable end adapted to be inserted into the...
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5545141 |
Percutaneous gastrostomy feeding tube applicator and method.
Various embodiments of a gastrostomy method and applicator device are shown and described. The gastrostomy device has an elongated body for insertion into the patient's stomach, a removable for...
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5513627 |
Esophageal tracheal intubator airway
An esophageal tracheal intubator airway device which allows rapid blind access to the larynx and esophagus of a patient for lung ventilation, stomach suctioning, fiberscopic examination of the...
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5509909 |
Bent chest tube assembly
A chest tube assembly is constructed and arranged for insertion into the pleural cavity and includes an elongated catheter having a proximal portion and a distal portion. A central lumen extends...
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5467763 |
Surgical instruments
A surgical instrument includes a plurality of segments which can be moved relative to each other from a first position in which the segments extend in a straight direction and can be inserted...
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5464409 |
Uterine manipulator and protector
A uterine manipulator and protector. It includes a shield member configured to engage with the area surrounding the external cervical os. The shield member has a curved blade projecting from an...
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5456675 |
Port cannula arrangement for connection to a port
Main cannula arrangement (10) with a metal cannula (12) and a connecting piece (14), featuring a valve (46), which is closed in the disconnected state and open in the connected state.
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5409004 |
Localization device with radiopaque markings
The present invention involves the localization of lesion tissue within the breast. A surgical guidewire or needle includes a plurality of visual and radiopaque markers along its axial length so...
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5389100 |
Controller for manipulation of instruments within a catheter
An everting catheter system which includes an elongated outer catheter having an outer catheter lumen and an opening, an elongated inner catheter movable in the outer catheter lumen and having the...
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5378241 |
Anesthesia instrument
An anesthesia instrument consists of a single lumen epidural cannula with a Touhy-type beveled aperture, an epidural catheter and a spinal cannula. The anesthesia instrument is characterized in...
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5356389 |
Infusion needle
An infusion needle, more particularly for general infusion therapy, having a needle body (1) having a metal cannula (2) and a cylindrical receiving opening (3) connected thereto, the best possible...
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5354263 |
Ureteral stent-catheter having varying diameter stent
A tubular flexible stent, a combination of stent-catheter, and method thereof, comprises a flexible tubular drain passage segment and a flexible tubular ureteral catheter receiving segment which is...
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5352205 |
Bloodless insertion catheter assembly
A catheter assembly having a catheter of flexible plastic tubing secured at one end to a catheter hub, a hollow adaptor body with a distal end for fluid tight connection to the catheter hub and in...
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5346467 |
Coll-karafin ureteral stent-catheter having varying diameter stent
A combination ureteral stent-ureteral catheter comprising an elongated flexible tubular member which has proximal and distal ends in the form of curls when present in its internalized stent form...
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5342394 |
Apparatus for blocking a vein branch and method of blocking a vein branch
An apparatus for blocking a vein branch is provided with an outer tube having a tubular passage opened at its distal and proximal ends and a bent distal end portion, an inner tube slidably inserted...
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5304141 |
Method and apparatus for inducing anesthesia
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for introducing spinal anesthesia directly into the subarachnoid space of a patient. One apparatus and method utilizes a small gauge spinal...
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5304140 |
Catheter for introduction into blood vessel
Disclosed is a catheter which is introduced into a blood vessel for the treatment or inspection of a diseased portion in the blood vessel. For facilitating the introducing operation of the...
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5279553 |
Transpyloric jejunostomy cannulating system
A transpyloric jejunostomy cannulating apparatus includes an abdominal wall trocar having an elongated shaft and a sharpened tapered end for passage through a patient's abdominal wall. A tubular...
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5269754 |
Laparoscopic cholangiogram device
A surgical instrument for facilitating the injection of a contrast fluid into the cystic duct during the course of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedure comprises an elongated, rigid outer...
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5263936 |
Continuous local anesthetization set
This invention relates to a continuous local anesthetization set to be used for setting a catheter in a spinal subarachnoid space, the continuous local anesthetization set consisting of a...
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5257620 |
Apparatus and method for endotracheal intubation
An apparatus for endotracheal intubation comprises a suction stylet telescopically disposed within an endotracheal tube such that the suction stylet is operative to aspirate fluids from the...
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5242409 |
Flexible access device
An access device is adapted to facilitate introduction into a body cavity, such as the abdominal cavity, of an instrument having an elongate shaft and a bend in the shaft. The device includes a hub...
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5241956 |
Laryngeal mask airway with concentric drainage of oesophagus discharge
A laryngeal mask airway is described which is fitted with an evacuation or drainage tube which passes through the back of the mask and terminates concentrically within an inflatable-cuff formation...
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5221269 |
Guide for localizing a nonpalpable breast lesion
A medical device for localizing a nonpalpable breast lesion. The device includes a tubular introducer needle and a wire guide positioned therein for inserting into a breast to the site of the...
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5221253 |
Urological stent-catheter system having varing diameter stent
A combination ureteral stent-ureteral catheter comprising an elongated flexible tubular member which has proximal and distal ends in the form of curls when present in its internalized stent form...
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