Abstract:
A catheter for atraumatic delivery of fluid is disclosed. In embodiments, the catheter includes a catheter shaft with a guidewire lumen disposed within the catheter shaft and an infusion lumen at least partially defined by the catheter shaft. The infusion lumen may at least partially surround the guidewire lumen. The catheter shaft includes a plurality of pores extending through an outer surface of the catheter shaft to the infusion lumen. The plurality of pores are disposed near a distal end of the catheter shaft and are configured to radially dispense a fluid from the infusion lumen.
Abstract:
The present disclosure describes various catheters that address potential recoil issues. Such catheter may contain multiple lumens that allow for the discharge of infusants a various points on the catheter distal end. Further, multiple openings may be present on the distal end of the catheter. The openings can be covered with a membrane that ruptures at a designated flow pressure. The catheter tip can contain blind holes that remain covered, and are only opened to become active when required. Such catheters can allow for multiple infusant flow exits, rather than a singular steady jet exiting the distal end of the catheter.
Abstract:
The invention is a device and method for measuring, inter alia, blood oxygenation, arterial/venous blood gas, and/or hemoglobin values in an already-inserted arterial or venous catheter in a patient. It allows the measurement of a meaningful and commonly understood metrics of blood oxygenation and gas exchange in hypo-perfused patients while avoiding the additional discomfort and risk of infection posed by inserting a standalone device with its own catheter. Analogous uses of the apparatus for other measurements is possible.
Abstract:
Hemodialysis catheter 100 with corrugated tips includes elongated body 110 having first and second distal end regions 118, 119 terminating in tips opened to lumens extending continuously along both elongated body and distal end regions. Each tip tubular wall has a corrugated configuration with at least two grooves 128, 129, including outer and inner grooves, merging into the tip edge via diverging angles, from elongated body longitudinal axis, and may be rotationally symmetric relative to the axis. In some embodiments, tip inner wall and hollow outer surfaces merge into a corrugated form having alternating grooves and ridges along distal ends of the tip, that enable the catheter to facilitate active lateral or frontal fluid traversability therethrough.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for assessing bodily cavities and lumens utilzing an integrated, automated aerating device is described. The aeration device can selectively supply a gas and a liquid during ultrasound and radiographic procedures for enhanced visualization of the uterine cavity and fallopian tubes.
Abstract:
A catheter design and method is provided for the aspiration of thrombus, clot, atherosclerotic emboli in the vascular bed. The aspiration catheter includes an aspiration lumen, a guidewire lumen having an exchange port, and a recess in the aspiration unit. The aspiration catheter lumen is divided into two sections: (i) proximal, and (ii) distal. The distal section has a distal opening.
Abstract:
A pleural manometry catheter comprises two tubes and a pressure transducer. The first tube provides a first flow path from the pleural cavity to the pressure transducer. The second tube provides a second flow path from the pleural cavity such that fluid can be drained from the pleural cavity. The pressure transducer detects real-time changes in the fluid pressure of the first flow path, such that when in use, fluid is drained from the pleural cavity along the second tube, the sensor in communication with the first tube detects a concomitant drop in fluid pressure in the fluid in the first tube.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a self-expanding cannula, systems using such cannulae, and methods of their use. The cannulae may comprise single lumen cannula (SLC) configurations and double lumen cannula (DLC) configurations, and include at least a first cannula and a self-expanding wire frame attached to the first cannula. Self-expanding wire frame is automatically expandable from a compressed state (providing a reduced cannula diameter as it is moved through a patients body to the site at which it is to be deployed) to an expanded state (which increases the diameter of the cannula to the diameter intended for its normal use). The expanded wire frame provides radial support to prevent a drainage canal (whether a patients blood vessel or a portion of the system inserted into the patients blood vessel) from collapsing as fluid is drained from the patient.
Abstract:
A catheter assembly comprising: an elongated tubular structure having a distal end terminating in a distal end surface and a proximal end terminating in a proximal end surface; a septum disposed within the interior of the elongated tubular structure so as to define a first lumen and a second lumen within the elongated tubular structure, wherein the septum comprises a distal end terminating in a distal end surface and a proximal end terminating in a proximal end surface, and further wherein the distal end surface of the septum terminates proximal to the distal end surface of the elongated tubular structure and the proximal end surface of the septum terminates.
Abstract:
Devices and methods that produce alterations of renal sympathetic nerve activity by use of tissue modifying implants. Devices for percutaneous delivery of implants into a renal artery or vein wall employing various needle assembly arrangements to modify renal nerve activity.