Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Mallinckrodt, Inc.

Covidien LP

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Medicomp, Inc.

Other

Clinvue LLC

Avitus Orthopaedics, Inc.

Brandon Wesley Craft

Timothy Paul Harrah

Chad Schneider

Sebastian Koerner

Elizabeth Anne Stokley

Jerry Timothy Long, Jr

Peter J Pereira

Kimberly DeGraaf

Jozef Slanda

Niraj Prasad Rauniyar

Aaron Kurtiss Kirkemo

Eric Wong

William Stanhope

James M Goddard

Robert J Ziemba

Vernon D Ortenzi

Mark Hera

Raymond C Kurzweil

Paul Albrecht

Milan Ivosevic

Erik Kurt Witt

Lucy Gibson

Paul Paia Marici

Mark Ian Lutwyche

Anthony Ceniccola

Charlotte Adele Clark

Nicholas John Collier

Adam Perry Nodiff

Natalie Frances Scott

Michael S H Chu

Brian P Watschke

Wen-Jui Ray Chia

Brian C MacLean

Ronald Ciulla

Sacha Tang

Kenneth P Reever

William Asselin

Mayur Kiran Patel

Michael O'Brien

Mark Rogers

Christopher P Gauvin

Anant Subramaniam

Erik E Sperry

Paul James Fearis

Margaret Uznanski

Aaron Kleiner

Mark Peter Rogers

Stuart Perry

Vishal Dua

Michelle Daniels

William Gastrock

Brian MacLEAN

Maxim Budyansky

Neil Shah

Marton Varady

Christopher Chiang

Elizabeth A Stokley

Paul Johnson

Paul Fearis

Douglas Pattison

Charles R Satti, Iii

Chelsey Nicole Pon

Angela Singleton

Jerry Timothy Long

Simon Alexander Karger

Pari Datta

Andrew Robert Mawby

Jeremy Bickerstaffe

Alistair Fleming

Edward Land

Mark A Hera

Anthony L Ceniccola

Michael SH Chu

Aaron K Kirkemo

William M Asselin

Chris Chiang

Charles R Iii Satti

John Leach

A guidance device is disclosed. The device may comprise a tracking pad with a guiding opening and a plurality of sensors operable with at least one beacon on a needle to track the disposition of the needle at least when a distal end of the needle is inserted into the guiding opening. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.

Surgical guidance devices, systems, and methods

A method for identifying material to be removed from a patient may use an imaging device, a display, a control unit, and an insertion device. The method may include obtaining a first set of image data from the imaging device, sending the first set of image data to the control unit from the imaging device, and analyzing the first set of image data based on at least one of a darkness, a contrast, or a saturation. The method may include generating a coded image identifying the material to be removed from the patient to be displayed on the display. The method may further include displaying the coded image on a first screen of the display, and indicating the material to be removed with the insertion device based on the displayed coded image.

Medical systems and related methods

An operation room system includes a processing unit configured to receive data associated with a patient, determine a treatment for the patient, identify a control setting associated with one or more treatment devices that are (i) in communication with the processing unit, and (ii) operable to perform the treatment, and generate a display including the control setting and at least one view of the data.

Operating room devices, methods, and systems

Irrigation devices, methods, and systems are disclosed. The system comprises a catheter with one or more lumens and an expandable portion. One or more pumps are used to supply a mixture of contrasting and dilating agents in an interior kidney volume and flush a portion of the mixture out of the interior kidney volume. The method comprises placing a catheter into the interior kidney volume through a ureter, occluding a portion of the ureter with a distal end of the catheter, forming an exit port through an exterior kidney surface, flowing the contrasting and dilating agents through the one or more lumens to supply the mixture in the interior kidney volume, and flushing a portion of the mixture out of the exit port.

Irrigation devices, methods, and systems

A fluid management system includes a pump configured to pump fluid through the system at a fluid flow rate. The system includes a processor including a user interface, the user interface allowing a user to input a set of system operating parameters, the processor being configured to control the pump to maintain a target fluid flow rate based on the set of system operating parameters. The system further includes a scope device coupled to the pump to deliver the fluid to a target surgical site, the scope device including an elongated shaft extending from a distal end thereof, the elongated shaft including at least one sensor, the at least one sensor transmitting sensor data relating to the target surgical site to the processor. The processor automatically signals to the pump to adjust the fluid flow rate based on the sensor data.

Automated fluid management system

Computer systems and computer-implemented analysis methods may be used for assistance in planning and/or performing a medical procedure, such as percutaneous nephrolithotomy or percutaneous nephrolithotripsy. The method may include receiving one or more radiographic images of an anatomical structure of a patient, generating a display of the radiographic image(s), generating at least one request for user input to identify features of the anatomical structure, receiving user input identifying the features of the anatomical structure, identifying at least one access plan based on the received user input, and generating a display of the identified access plan(s) associated with the radiographic image(s). The method may include generating a patient template that indicates an insertion site according to the identified access plan(s).

Systems and methods for planning medical procedures

Tools, devices and systems that include a generally cylindrical, hollow shaft, and a suction canister are provided with advantageous interconnectivity features and functions that enable ease of manufacturing, lowered manufacturing costs, and allow for a platform of different shaft embodiments and canister embodiments that may be manufactured in different combinations to form an array of unique instruments. The interconnectivity may be irreversible or reversible, and the connection features maintain an air tight seal between the components. Tools, devices and systems are also provided that include collection functionality that can be employed to manipulate the volume of tissue collected while using a tissue collection feature/function. This may be undertaken to restrict total volume of the collection chamber in a way that allows for continuous suction flow rate to take place while collecting the desired amount of tissue. Containing the tissue to a pre-set volume can enable a user to effectively ascertain the volume of tissue collected.

Systems and methods for bone and tissue harvesting

A guidance method comprising: placing a tracking pad adjacent a body, the tracking pad including a guiding opening and a plurality of sensors, locating a distal end of a needle inside of the guiding opening at an insertion point adjacent the body, the needle including at least one beacon, operating the plurality of sensors with the at least one beacon to track an actual disposition of the needle, establishing a target disposition for the needle, moving the needle in a direction of movement to synchronize the actual disposition with the target disposition, and inserting the distal end of the needle into the body along an insertion axis.

Devices for guiding an instrument into a body of a patient, at a targeted point of entry and along an insertion path at a targeted insertion angle, are described herein, such as a guide for an access needle in a PCNL procedure for accessing the kidney to remove kidney stones, the devices comprising a base component, a guide assembly, and optionally an insertion mechanism. The base component is aligned in use with the point of entry and the guide assembly cooperates with the base component to allow for the instrument to be aligned and fixed at any circumferential angle around an axis perpendicular to the point of entry and at any vertical angle ranging from 0 to 45 degrees away from the axis in a direction toward the body. The optional mechanism allows for mechanical insertion once the instrument is aligned and fixed. Devices and methods disclosed herein allow a medical professional to accurately and stably guide an instrument at a targeted point and angle and to a desired depth, while minimizing the exposure to radiation in the surgical field that is used to image the insertion path.

Devices and methods for guiding a surgical instrument

Medical system for identifying material to be removed from a patient and related methods

A device or scope device is disclosed. The device may comprise: a handle body extending along an axis between first end and a second end; an actuator at the first end of the handle body; a catheter at the second end of the handle body; and a processing unit communicable with a plurality of devices to: switch-in the actuator for control of one device of the plurality of devices; configure, with the actuator, a setting of the one device, control, with the actuator, the one device based on the setting, and switch-in the actuator for control of another one of the plurality of devices. Related devices and methods also are disclosed.

Scope devices and methods

Guidance systems and associated methods are disclosed. One method comprises: receiving macroscan data prior to an operation; defining a body information model from the macroscan data; positioning a navigation component in the body during the operation; generating microscan data with the navigation component; correlating a location in the macroscan data with a location in the microscan data in the body information model; and/or modifying the body information model by combining an image in the microscan data with an image in the macroscan data.

Guidance systems and associated methods

Operation room devices, methods, and systems are disclosed. One method comprises: receiving, at a processing unit, data associated with a patient; determining, with the processing unit, a treatment for the patient; identifying, with the processing unit, a control setting associated with one or more treatment devices that are (i) in communication with the processing unit, and (ii) operable to perform the treatment; and generating, with the processing unit, a display including the control setting and at least one view of the data. Related devices and systems also are disclosed.

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Brandon Wesley Craft