Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation

Ethicon, Gmbh

Lifecell Corporation

Barbara L Merboth

Arthur A Gertzman

Mehmet Reyhan

Raymond Parker

Suranga Suraweera

Jennifer Hwang

Jeffrey Kapec

Kazuna Tanaka

Moon Hae Sunwoo

Yukiko Naoi

Eric Semler

Anton J Steiner

Judith I Yannariello-Brown

Adam Stephens

Michael Schuler

Arthur A Genzman

Malcolm Will

Packaging

A package for a medical device having a handle and an elongated shaft. The package includes a holster for holding the medical device, the holster having a tubular member for receiving the elongated shaft and a handle cover located at a proximal end thereof. The handle cover has a holster opening for accessing the handle to draw the medical device from the holster. The package includes a pouch having a sealed area bounded by a top sealed edge, a bottom sealed edge, a pair of side sealed edges extending between the top and bottom sealed edges, and at least one opening tab spaced from the bottom sealed edge. The medical device and the holster are disposed within the sealed area of the pouch with the elongated shaft of the medical device extending along the bottom sealed edge and the holster opening being located adjacent the at least one opening tab.

Packages for medical devices and methods therefor

Medical device holster

A sterile implant for treatment of a spinal disc defect comprising an allograft cortical bone demineralized to a Type I collagen having a specific shape which is treated to eliminate osteoinductivity. The implant is lyophilized and compressed into smaller first shape which 20 to 80% from its original shape in at least one dimension and hardened. The implant expanding when hydrated into a second shape having the shape memory of the first shape and expanded in dimensional size from the first compressed shape.

Vertebral disc repair

The cannula handle housing includes a recessed seat, wings extending outwardly from the recessed seat in the housing for engagement with a physician's hand and a stem which extends from said housing to hold a portion of a cannula The cannula has a distal sharpened end and a proximal end secured to a Luer lock. The stylet includes a longitudinal member having a sharp tip with the other end of the stylet formed with an anvil structure which is molded into a stylet cap. The stylet cap is a housing which includes a projection portion having a complimentary configuration to the recessed seat formed in said cannula housing for interlocking with the Luer lock of the cannula housing. The stylet inserts into the cannula and with a twist, locks about the Luer lock on the proximal end of the cannula.

Bone marrow aspiration instrument

The invention is directed toward an osteoimplant for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site which comprises a new bone growth inducing composition of demineralized allograft bone material mixed with an aqueous phosphate buffered gelatin which when lyophilized to remove water from the composition cross links the gelatin to form a solid structure.

Allograft bone composition having a gelatin binder

The bone marrow mixing instrument having a handle housing with a trigger mounted thereto. The handle housing contains a ratchet drive feed mechanism with a pawl assembly and a moveable ratchet bar. The other end of the ratchet bar is secured to a mixing housing which holds syringes filled with material and defines channels leading from the syringe area to a mixing nozzle removably mounted to the mixing housing. A piston rod and piston are mounted in each syringe containing bone defect material with a piston being advanced within the respective syringe by the feed mechanism to discharge bone defect material from the syringe into the adjacent channels in the mixing housing and into the mixing nozzle.

Bone marrow mixing instrument

A double sterile container assembly for storing sterile allograft tissue implant forms constructed with an outer container defining an open faced cavity and a flange extending outward from the cavity and a stepped recess formed in the flange surrounding said cavity. An inner container sized to fit in the open faced cavity also defines an open faced cavity and a flange extending outward from the cavity with the inner container flange being of a dimension to fit into the stepped recess of the outer container. An insert retainer sized to fit into the inner container cavity defines a shaped structure therein to hold a tissue implant form. A permeable cover is sealed to the flange of the inner container covering the inner container cavity; and an outer cover is sealed to the flange of the outer container covering outer container cavity to form a double sterile implant container assembly.

Package with insert for holding allograft implant to preclude lipid transfer

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Bridgewater, NJ, United States of America

Barbara L Merboth