Method and device for electronically controlling the beating of a heart

    公开(公告)号:US06542774B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-01

    申请号:US09897630

    申请日:2001-07-02

    Abstract: An electro-stimulation device includes a pair of electrodes for connection to at least one location in the body that affects or regulates the heartbeat. The electro-stimulation device both electrically arrests the heartbeat and stimulates the heartbeat. A pair of electrodes are provided for connection to at least one location in the body that affects or regulates the heartbeat. The pair of electrodes may be connected to an intravenous catheter for transvenous stimulation of the appropriate nerve. A first switch is connected between a power supply and the electrodes for selectively supplying current from the power supply to the electrodes to augment any natural stimuli to the heart and thereby stop the heart from beating. A second switch is connected between the power supply and the electrodes for selectively supplying current from the power supply to the electrodes to provide an artificial stimulus to initiate heartbeating. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a method for arresting the beat of a heart in a living body comprising the steps of connecting the pair of electrodes to at least one location in the body that affects or regulates the heartbeat and supplying an electrical current to the electrodes of sufficient amplitude and duration to arrest the heartbeat. The device may also serve to still the lungs by input to a respirator or by stimulation of the phrenic nerve during surgical procedures.

    Method of placing a cannula
    3.
    发明授权
    Method of placing a cannula 有权
    放置插管的方法

    公开(公告)号:US6120494A

    公开(公告)日:2000-09-19

    申请号:US328822

    申请日:1999-06-09

    Abstract: A cannula assembly for insertion in a blood vessel includes a cannula and a dilator. The cannula has a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. The dilator, which is telescopically received in the lumen of the cannula, includes proximal and distal ends, a passage extending between the proximal and distal ends, and a dilator tip disposed at the distal end. The cannula assembly further includes a needle and a guide wire disposed within the passage of the dilator. The dilator tip has an opening formed therein for receiving one of the needle and guide wire. The dilator tip is configured to limit insertion of the needle in the blood vessel.

    Abstract translation: 用于插入血管的插管组件包括插管和扩张器。 套管具有近端,远端和在其间延伸的内腔。 可伸缩地容纳在套管的内腔中的扩张器包括近端和远端,在近端和远端之间延伸的通道和设置在远端的扩张器尖端。 插管组件还包括设置在扩张器的通道内的针和导丝。 扩张器尖端具有形成在其中的开口,用于接收针和导丝中的一个。 扩张器尖端构造成限制针在血管中的插入。

    Medical positioning system
    4.
    发明授权
    Medical positioning system 失效
    医疗定位系统

    公开(公告)号:US5782765A

    公开(公告)日:1998-07-21

    申请号:US639478

    申请日:1996-04-25

    CPC classification number: A61B5/06 A61B34/20 A61B2034/2051

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning a probe inside a patient including a plurality of transmitter/receiver nodes arranged around the patient for communicating with the probe and generating navigation signals, a system for generating one or more positional signals in response to the navigational signals, and a system for collecting and analyzing those positional signals to determine the location of the medical instrument inside the patient's body. The transmitting/receiving nodes may be arranged on a flexible blanket which is wrapped around and adhered to the patient's body or over a table supporting the patient's body.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于将探头定位在患者体内的方法和装置,包括围绕患者布置的多个发射器/接收器节点,用于与探头通信并产生导航信号;响应于导航信号产生一个或多个位置信号的系统,以及 用于收集和分析这些位置信号以确定医疗器械在患者体内的位置的系统。 发送/接收节点可以布置在柔性毯子上,该弹性毯子缠绕并粘附到患者身体或者在支撑患者身体的桌子上。

    Bidirectional femoral arterial cannula
    5.
    发明授权
    Bidirectional femoral arterial cannula 失效
    双向股动脉插管

    公开(公告)号:US5171218A

    公开(公告)日:1992-12-15

    申请号:US816874

    申请日:1992-01-02

    CPC classification number: A61M25/0606 A61M25/007 A61M25/0693

    Abstract: An arterial cannula which includes a diverting side hole which simultaneously perfuses blood to the body and the lower extremity. Two barbs on the cannula exterior position the diverting hole just inside the blood vessel and prevent the back wall of the blood vessel from blocking the diverting hole. A transparent flash chamber on the proximal end of the cannula provides a visual indication of the entrance of the diverting side hole into the blood vessel. When the diverting hole enters the blood vessel, blood immediately fills the flash chamber.

    Abstract translation: 动脉插管,其包括同时将血液灌注到身体和下肢的转向侧孔。 插管外侧的两个倒钩将分流孔刚好放置在血管内,并防止血管的后壁阻塞转向孔。 套管近端的透明闪光腔提供转向侧孔进入血管的视觉指示。 当分流孔进入血管时,血液立即充满闪光室。

    Method and apparatus for guidewire placement of catheters
    6.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for guidewire placement of catheters 失效
    用于导丝导线放置的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4758218A

    公开(公告)日:1988-07-19

    申请号:US932278

    申请日:1986-11-19

    CPC classification number: A61M25/09041 Y10S604/90

    Abstract: A percutaneous syringe assembly for use in the introduction of a guidewire into a blood vessel for the purpose of guiding a catheter into place. The syringe has a plunger with a central guide tube for the wire and a needle lumen for introduction of the wire into a blood vessel. A protective flexible container for a guidewire is attachable to the syringe plunger in a closed circuit with selective ends to be aligned with the central guide tube of the plunger to permit a J-end or a straight end of a wire to be introduced into a selected blood vessel.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于将导丝引入血管中以便将导管引导到位的目的的经皮注射器组件。 注射器具有柱塞,其具有用于线的中心引导管和用于将线引入血管的针管腔。 用于导丝的保护性柔性容器可在闭合回路中附接到注射器柱塞,其中选择性端部与柱塞的中心引导管对准,以允许引线的J端或直端引入所选择的 血管

    Cannula reinforcing band and method
    7.
    发明授权
    Cannula reinforcing band and method 有权
    插管加强带和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08377036B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-02-19

    申请号:US12145798

    申请日:2008-06-25

    CPC classification number: A61M25/0054 A61M25/005 A61M25/0053 Y10T29/49826

    Abstract: A cannula assembly having a hollow elongate cannula with a proximal end, a distal end, and a central axis. A coiled reinforcing member is disposed along a portion of the hollow elongate cannula and is adapted to provide structural support to the elongate cannula. An intermediate reinforcing band is disposed on the elongate cannula between the proximal end and the distal end to reinforce a perforated section in the wall of the cannula and includes a forward edge, a rearward edge, at least one rib and at least one protrusion extending orthogonally from the forward edge and at least one protrusion extending from the rearward edge. A distal reinforcing band is disposed at the distal end of the elongate cannula and has a plurality of fingers that taper slightly inwardly toward the central axis of the hollow elongate cannula.

    Abstract translation: 套管组件,其具有中空细长插管,其具有近端,远端和中心轴线。 螺旋加强构件沿着中空细长插管的一部分设置,并且适于向细长插管提供结构支撑。 中间加强带设置在细长插管之间的近端和远端之间,以加强套管壁中的穿孔部分,并且包括前边缘,后边缘,至少一个肋和至少一个正交延伸的突起 从前缘和从后边缘延伸的至少一个突起。 远端加强带设置在细长插管的远端处,并且具有多个指向中空细长插管的中心轴线稍微向内倾斜的指状物。

    Aortic cannula with reduced velocity flow-through tip
    9.
    发明授权
    Aortic cannula with reduced velocity flow-through tip 失效
    主动脉套管具有减小的流速通过尖端

    公开(公告)号:US5976114A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-02

    申请号:US70884

    申请日:1998-04-30

    CPC classification number: A61M25/001 A61M1/3659 A61M25/007

    Abstract: An improved aortic cannula is formed from a cannula body and a tip provided on the distal end of the cannula body wherein the tip is designed to accommodate the fluid flow requirements of an extracorporeal bypass system while simultaneously minimizing any possible adverse impact of the cannula and fluid flow on the vessel in which the cannula is received. The tip has an axial fluid discharge aperture provided at the distal end thereof through which a portion of the fluid exiting the cannula flows. In addition, at least one lateral fluid discharge aperture is provided in the sidewall of the tip. A scoop or other diverting member is formed in the sidewall to direct a portion of the fluid flowing through the tip to exit the cannula through the lateral fluid discharge apertures.

    Abstract translation: 改进的主动脉插管由插管主体和设置在套管主体的远端上的尖端形成,其中尖端被设计成适应体外旁路系统的流体流量要求,同时最小化套管和流体的任何可能的不利影响 在其中容纳插管的容器上流动。 尖端具有设置在其远端处的轴向流体排放孔,一部分离开套管的流体通过该流体排出孔流动。 此外,在尖端的侧壁中提供至少一个侧向流体排出孔。 在侧壁中形成勺子或其他转向构件以引导流过尖端的流体的一部分以通过横向流体排出孔离开套管。

    Two-stage venous cannula with expandable reinforcing member
    10.
    发明授权
    Two-stage venous cannula with expandable reinforcing member 失效
    具有可扩张加强构件的两级静脉插管

    公开(公告)号:US5769828A

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-23

    申请号:US663563

    申请日:1996-06-13

    Abstract: A two-staged venous cannula is disclosed. The cannula includes an expandable reinforcing member around the atrial basket that prevents the cannula from kinking or collapsing in the area where the reinforcing member is applied. The reinforcing member preferably consists of an even number of rigid discrete beams of the same length equally spaced about the circumference of a cylinder. In an alternate embodiment, the beams may be equally spaced on the surface of a cone. Alternate spaces between the beams are formed. The alternate spaces between the beams are equally spaced around the circumference of the cannula. The alternate spaces between the beams remain equally spaced around the circumference of the cannula as the reinforcing member is expanded over a larger diameter. This design for the reinforcing member provides space between the beams where holes of the preferred shape, size and orientation can be placed through the cannula without requiring cutting through the material of the reinforcing member.

    Abstract translation: 公开了一种两级静脉插管。 套管包括围绕心房篮的可扩张加强构件,其防止套管在加强构件被施加的区域中扭结或塌陷。 加强构件优选地由偶数数量的圆柱体周长等间隔地具有相同长度的刚性离散梁组成。 在替代实施例中,梁可以等距分布在锥体的表面上。 形成梁之间的交替空间。 梁之间的交替空间围绕套管的圆周等间隔。 当加强构件在较大直径上膨胀时,梁之间的备用空间围绕插管的圆周保持等间隔。 用于加强构件的该设计提供了梁之间的空间,其中优选形状,尺寸和取向的孔可通过套管放置,而不需要切割加强构件的材料。

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