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6066117 Cannula flapper valve assembly  
A cannula includes a cannula cap connected to a proximal end of the cannula, which cap has cap body having a bore defining an instrument receiving passageway. A monolithic flapper valve is...
6063099 Dilating trocar shield with blade tip  
A trocar is formed from a cannula and an interfitting obturator for penetrating body cavity walls in laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery. The obturator is provided with an improved piercing tip...
6063063 Catheter with an open/closing mechanism  
The invention relates to a catheter including a tubular part, a closure, a radially projecting part, and an operating handle. The tubular part has a proximal end and a distal end, at least one...
6059768 Coded intravenous tubing  
Tubing for use with intravenous delivery of fluids to a patient is provided. The tubing is preferably see-through and includes a tubing wall defining an exterior surface and an interior surface....
6059759 Infusion catheter systems with tactile sensing feedback  
A catheter system including an infusion catheter interacting with an occluding wire. The infusion catheter has an interior surface defining a lumen longitudinally extending between a proximal end...
6059769 Medical catheter with grooved soft distal segment  
An intravascular medical catheter and method of manufacturing a medical catheter are provided herein. The medical catheter includes a catheter shaft having an inner liner, a reinforcing section and...
6059766 Gynecologic embolotherapy methods  
This invention is directed to novel methods for gynecologic embolotherapy. The methods directly access the blood vessels to be embolized transcervically rather than arterially. The methods provide...
6059751 Dilatation catheter balloons with improved puncture resistance  
Multi-layer puncture-resistant biaxially oriented coextruded films or tubings are disclosed for use in dilatation balloon catheters. The catheter balloons so formed comprise a first, inner layer of...
6059748 Catheters with enhanced exchange capability  
An exchange catheter facilitates the replacement of an existing guiding catheter with a larger guiding catheter during catheterization procedures such as percutaneous transluminal coronary...
6059760 Cannula having reverse flow tip  
A cannula for conducting fluid to a body includes a cannula body having proximal and distal ends and a lumen extending therebetween. The lumen is adapted to receive the fluid flowing therethrough....
6059484 Guide wire introducer assembly with guide wire grip and release means  
6053897 Apparatus for maintaining the patency of urine flow through the urethra  
An apparatus for maintaining the patency of urine flow through the human urethra, having an intra-urethral catheter (IUC), which has a potential through flow for the urine that extends over its...
6050980 Thromboresistant plastic article and method of manufacture  
Antithrombotic agents having reactional functional groups are reacted with a base polymer also having reactive functional groups to form a surface coating for a medical material. The medical...
6048339 Flexible surgical instruments with suction  
A surgical instrument (10) includes a rigid stem section (12) defining a longitudinal axis (32) of the surgical instrument. The rigid stem section (12) has a central passage (86) for aspirating...
6045547 Semi-continuous co-extruded catheter shaft  
A multi-layer catheter tube section providing gradually increasing flexibility. One catheter tube section has a first, inner layer formed of a flexible material and a second, outer layer formed of...
6045535 Surgical sealing sleeve  
A surgical sealing sleeve (1, 32) for preventing undesirable leakage from the humoral fluid filled interior of a mammal organ to an access environment during its temporary seating in an access...
6042576 Two-stage angled venous cannula  
A two-staged venous cannula is disclosed having an angled bend near the distal end. In a preferred embodiment, the angle is a right angle. The angle bend allows the cannulation to take place near...
6042562 Handle for a catheter  
A handle for a catheter, comprising a marking arrangement using index markings which can be read through a window. The window is arranged on the handle, and the index markings are carried by an...
6042563 Methods and apparatus for occluding a blood vessel  
An improved method and apparatus for occluding a blood vessel is shown and described. A cannula adapted for insertion through a wall of a blood vessel is provided with an expandable member on a...
6039699 Stiff catheter guidewire with flexible distal portion  
A catheter guidewire has a relatively flexible distal portion to facilitate the steering of the guidewire through the cardiovascular system of a subject and the capability of the guidewire to reach...
6036682 Catheter having a plurality of integral radiopaque bands  
A tubular member for manufacture of medical devices insertable into body lumens. The tubular member includes an inner tubular member, and outer tubular member, and a lumen through the inner tubular...
6036676 Surface modified polymeric material formulation  
The present invention provides a polymeric blend suitable for adhesive bonding to polar polymeric materials comprising an ultra-low density polyethylene in an amount by weight within the range of...
6033388 Catheter introducer with thin walled sheath  
A catheter introducer sheath comprises a polyimide tube manufactured by a dispersion coating process. The inner diameter of the tube is constant over its entire length. The thickness of the tube is...
6035224 Electrophysiology catheter with multifunction wire and method for making  
An electrophysiology catheter (2) includes a handle (4) and a catheter shaft (6) having a flexible tip portion (22) with one or more electrodes (26, 28). A radial deflection wire (42) connects the...
6033393 Method and apparatus for overpressure protection of a catheter  
A method and apparatus for overpressure protection of a catheter from an indwelling catheter. A method in one embodiment includes injecting an agent into the catheter and relieving overpressures in...
6033379 Balloon catheter  
An improved balloon catheter has a catheter body with an expandable member, such as a balloon, mounted to the exterior surface thereof. Preferably, means for preventing sticking of the expandable...
6033394 Catheter support structure  
A catheter has a support segment which includes a plurality of support struts. Each of the struts has first and second ends longitudinally spaced apart along a longitudinal axis of the segment. The...
6030364 Apparatus and method for percutaneous placement of gastro-intestinal tubes  
A method and apparatus for the percutaneous placement of gastro-intestinal tubes, the apparatus comprising a longitudinal penetration device; a hollow, tapered dilator; and a sheath having a...
6030369 Micro catheter shaft  
This is a catheter having a shaft, the layers of which are coextruded in an intermittently changing pattern that produces particular mechanical and frictional properties in the structure. The outer...
6030371 Catheters and method for nonextrusion manufacturing of catheters  
An apparatus and method for nonextrusion manufacturing of catheters that can be used to produce catheters having a simple or complex configuration. A polymer material in a particulate preform is...
6030370 Surgical instrument  
In the performance of vascular anastomosis, in order to improve and simplify the making of the connection between the vessels, a surgical instrument is proposed which is characterized by a tubular...
6030358 Microcatheter and method for site specific therapy  
An apparatus having a pump reservoir and one or more microcatheters, for use in delivering and/or recovering fluid to and/or from a tissue site or for performing tissue engineering outside of the...
6024725 Reducing tissue trauma and fluid loss during surgery  
A sleeve for introducing a surgical instrument (e.g., a lipoplasty probe) into the body via a wound pierced in the skin, and an insertion device for making the wound and inserting the sleeve...
6024730 Catheter assemblies and inner cannulae  
An inner cannula for a tracheostomy tube assembly is formed from a tubular member having two parallel rows of slots formed along its length and covered by a sheath of thin flexible material on the...
6022343 Bridged coil catheter support structure  
A catheter includes a segment having a longitudinal axis. The segment has a helical coil extending coaxially with the longitudinal axis. The coil has a plurality of turns along a length of the...
6022341 Catheter with multiple internal diameters  
There is disclosed a medical catheter comprising a proximal shaft section and a distal shaft section. The proximal shaft section has an inner diameter and wall thickness which is constant over the...
6017356 Method for using a trocar for penetration and skin incision  
A method for establishing a surgical port for endoscopic or arthroscopic surgery is disclosed. A trocar is initially provided, and the obturator of the trocar includes a flat cutting blade, a...
6017333 Irrigating laparoscopic cannula  
A trocar assembly consisting of a trocar in a central opening in a cannula. The cannula is provided with at least one separate passage running parallel to the central passage. The separate passage...
6015400 Method for placing a feeding tube  
A method for placing a feeding tube in a patient. The method includes the step of providing a needle defining a channel therethrough, the needle being constructed for insertion through an abdominal...
6013068 Variable lumen catheter  
The present invention is a convertible catheter which is of a size and construction so as to enable it to be inserted by a medical technician and is designed so as to convert the site of ingress...
6013047 Method and apparatus for prevention of fluid intrusion in a probe shaft  
A shaft for a probe, especially suited for TEE and nasogastric applications, with superior bite-through resistance in the outermost probe layer. The probe shaft includes a crush-proof monocoil...
6013052 Catheter and piston-type actuation device for use with same  
A catheter handle including a handle body defining a longitudinally extending handle aperture, a connector adapted to connect a steering wire to the handle body, a piston located at least partially...
6010494 Connection system for medical applications  
The present invention provides a connection system for connecting a cannula to a device, the system involving a chamber operably coupled to the device, wherein the chamber has two apertures and...
6007521 Drainage catheter system  
A drainage catheter system including a catheter, a collection bag, and a collection bag saddle, is provided. The catheter includes a catheter body having an interior lumen, an elongate tubular...
6007519 Central access cannulation device  
A catheter placement system designed to permit a physician to quickly and safely place a large gage catheter into a selected major vein, while avoiding injury to the selected vein, nerves or other...
6004302 Cannula  
A cannula has a shank and a tip which is elliptical in cross-section having radially extending crescent-shaped fins for engaging the tissue lining the tunnel of an incision. The cannula is thus...
6004303 Choker catheter  
The present invention is directed to an apparatus for use in internal surgical procedures, more particularly, an apparatus for use in laparoscopic surgical procedures providing a simple and cost...
6001084 Medical needle for endoscopic surgery  
A medical needle for endoscopic surgery has an external cannula tube in which a protective element is mounted so that it can be shifted axially against a spring. The distal, front protective...
6001078 Selective positioning drainage catheter  
A drainage catheter for selective positioning within the human vasculature which includes a catheter body defining separate pressure and discharge lumens. A connector means at a proximal end of the...
5997516 Modified cannula  
A surgical cannula includes a generally hollow inlet portion which can receive a fluid flow and an angled outlet portion connected in fluid communication with the inlet portion. The outlet portion...