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Albert A Mikhail

Corollos Samir Abdelshehid

Imad Maalouf

Pierre Touma

Elias Bachaalany

Amgad Barsom

A multi-port medical syringe comprises a port body, a syringe barrel, and a plunger. The port body comprises a cylindrical cavity with at least three ports. The three port are configured to connect the cylindrical cavity of the port body with three medical devices: a first port configured for attachment to a medical device such as an input fluid source; a second port configured for fluid transmission through a urinary catheter to a bladder of a human or animal; and a third port configured for attachment to a medical device such as a drainage fluid storage vessel. The syringe barrel comprises a cylindrical tube, at least a portion of which fits snugly inside the cylindrical cavity of the port body. The syringe barrel further comprises a syringe barrel port located proximate to, or in, an otherwise closed end of the syringe barrel. Selection of the first, second or third port comprises a rotation of the syringe barrel relative to the port body, about the barrel cylindrical tube central axis, to align the syringe barrel port with the selected port body port. The plunger fits inside the cylindrical tube of the syringe barrel. The plunger can be manually grasped and moved longitudinally along the barrel cylindrical tube central axis to transmit fluid through the port of the port body that was selected by rotating the syringe barrel inside the port body.

Multi-port syringe system and method for use with a urinary catheter

Medical syringe

A system and/or method for detecting a ferromagnetic object during surgery comprises a probe tip magnetoresistance device configured for insertion into a human or animal cavity and a probe base magnetoresistance device configured for remaining outside the cavity. The system and method detect the ferromagnetic object by comparing the electrical signals generated by the probe tip and the probe base magnetoresistance devices in response to the ambient magnetic field without generating a magnetic field to detect the ferromagnetic object.

Surgical ferromagnetic object detection system and method

A medical syringe with at least three ports, in conjunction with a urinary catheter, can be used for closed manual irrigation of a bladder. The three syringe ports are located on a port body. Each of the three syringe ports can be manually selected by rotating a barrel that has a closed end located inside the cup-shaped port body. Rotation of the barrel inside the port body occurs about an axis that is aligned with the central axis of the hollow cylindrical barrel. The system is configured to selectively fill the syringe with an input fluid, irrigate the bladder by passing fluid into and out of the urinary catheter, and drain bladder contents into a drainage vessel without ever needing to remove the syringe from the catheter.

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Sherman Oaks, CA, United States of America

Albert A Mikhail