METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OF A PATIENT'S BODY TEMPERATURE BY WAY OF A TRANSLUMINALLY INSERTABLE HEAT EXCHANGE CATHETER
    55.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OF A PATIENT'S BODY TEMPERATURE BY WAY OF A TRANSLUMINALLY INSERTABLE HEAT EXCHANGE CATHETER 审中-公开
    方法和系统通过一个透明的热交换导管的方式控制患者身体温度

    公开(公告)号:US20120095536A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-04-19

    申请号:US13164648

    申请日:2011-06-20

    IPC分类号: A61F7/12

    摘要: Methods and apparatuses for temperature modification of a patient, or selected regions thereof, including an induced state of hypothermia. The temperature modification is accomplished using an in-dwelling heat exchange catheter within which a fluid heat exchange medium circulates. A heat exchange cassette of any one of several disclosed variations is attached to the circulatory conduits of the catheter, the heat exchange cassette being sized to engage a cavity within one of various described re-usable control units. The control units include a heater/cooler device, a user input device, and a processor connected to receive input from various sensors around the body and the system. The heater/cooler device may be thermoelectric to enable both heating and 15″ cooling based on polarity. A temperature control scheme for ramping the body temperature up or down without overshoot is provided. The disposable heat exchange cassettes may include an integral pump head that engages with a pump drive mechanism within the re-usable control unit. More than one control unit may be provided to receive the same heat exchange cassette so that, for example, a large capacity control unit can be used initially, and a smaller, battery-powered unit can be substituted once the patient reaches the desired target temperature.

    摘要翻译: 包括诱导低温的状态的患者的温度改变方法和装置,或其选定区域。 使用在其中流体热交换介质循环的内部热交换导管来实现温度改变。 几个公开的变型中的任何一个的热交换盒附接到导管的循环导管,热交换盒的尺寸适于接合各种所描述的可重复使用的控制单元之一内的空腔。 控制单元包括加热器/冷却器装置,用户输入装置和连接以接收来自身体和系统周围的各种传感器的输入的处理器。 加热器/冷却器装置可以是热电,以使得能够基于极性进行加热和15“冷却。 提供了一种用于使体温上升或下降而没有过冲的温度控制方案。 一次性热交换盒可以包括与可再使用的控制单元内的泵驱动机构接合的整体泵头。 可以提供多于一个控制单元以接收相同的热交换盒,使得例如最初可以使用大容量控制单元,并且一旦患者达到期望的目标温度,可以取代较小的电池供电的单元 。

    Remote Tissue Retraction Device
    56.
    发明申请
    Remote Tissue Retraction Device 审中-公开
    远程组织退缩装置

    公开(公告)号:US20120083657A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-04-05

    申请号:US13326709

    申请日:2011-12-15

    IPC分类号: A61B1/32

    摘要: A medical device for managing tissue in an organ, such as the stomach, for retracting or positioning tissue and related organs to allow certain regions of the stomach to be acquired for a gastroplasty procedure. The medical device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a tissue treatment device attached to the distal end of the elongated body. The tissue treatment device includes a first jaw opposite a second jaw, and each jaw is adapted to acquire tissue. A retractor is disposed along the tissue treatment device and adapted to be moveable from a delivery position to a retraction position to move or manage the tissue of the stomach. The medical device also includes a collapsible barrier disposed between the first and second jaws of the tissue treatment device to direct tissue into the first and second jaws separately.

    摘要翻译: 用于管理诸如胃的器官中的组织的医疗装置,用于缩回或定位组织和相关器官,以允许为胃成形术获得胃的某些区域。 医疗装置包括具有近端和远端的细长主体,以及连接到细长主体的远端的组织处理装置。 组织处理装置包括与第二钳口相对的第一钳口,并且每个钳口适于获取组织。 牵开器沿着组织处理装置设置并适于从输送位置移动到缩回位置以移动或管理胃的组织。 医疗装置还包括设置在组织处理装置的第一和第二钳口之间的可折叠屏障,以将组织分别引导到第一和第二钳口中。

    TENDON-DRIVEN ENDOSCOPE AND METHODS OF USE
    58.
    发明申请
    TENDON-DRIVEN ENDOSCOPE AND METHODS OF USE 有权
    TENDON驱动内窥镜及其使用方法

    公开(公告)号:US20110306836A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-12-15

    申请号:US13180501

    申请日:2011-07-11

    IPC分类号: A61B1/00

    摘要: A steerable, tendon-driven endoscope is described herein. The endoscope has an elongated body with a manually or selectively steerable distal portion and an automatically controlled, segmented proximal portion. The steerable distal portion and the segment of the controllable portion are actuated by at least two tendons. As the endoscope is advanced, the user maneuvers the distal portion, and a motion controller actuates tendons in the segmented proximal portion so that the proximal portion assumes the selected curve of the selectively steerable distal portion. By this method the selected curves are propagated along the endoscope body so that the endoscope largely conforms to the pathway selected. When the endoscope is withdrawn proximally, the selected curves can propagate distally along the endoscope body. This allows the endoscope to negotiate tortuous curves along a desired path through or around and between organs within the body.

    摘要翻译: 这里描述了可操纵的肌腱驱动的内窥镜。 内窥镜具有细长主体,其具有手动或选择性可操纵的远侧部分和自动控制的分段近端部分。 可操纵的远端部分和可控部分的段由至少两个腱致动。 当内窥镜前进时,使用者操纵远侧部分,并且运动控制器致动分段近端部分中的肌腱,使得近端部分呈现选择性可操纵的远侧部分的选定曲线。 通过该方法,所选择的曲线沿着内窥镜主体传播,使得内窥镜大体上符合所选择的路径。 当内窥镜向近侧收回时,所选择的曲线可沿内窥镜体向远端传播。 这允许内窥镜沿着穿过体内器官之间或之间的所需途径协商曲折曲线。