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Coaptus Medical Corporation

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David A Herrin

Stephen M Bailey

William L Hunter

Jeffrey Mendel Gross

Fred Cushner

Douglas Bensch

Nicholas H Helseth

Dermot Keenan

George A Morales

Shane Murphy

Stephen Raitt

Thomas Snopek

Curtis Troupe

Douglas Brajer

Aimee L Desaki

Winslow T Harte

Michael Nelson

Justin W Sokel

Martin J Sector

Joseph N Kennelly Ullman

Matthew S Beard

Jared L Van Cleave

Steven A Rodriguez

Stephen A Yencho

Gregory A Demopulos

Neil G McIlvaine

George E Selecman

Gorm Bressner

Milton R Sigelmann

John Collins

Mark E Hastings

William Peter Stiles

Danius P Silkaitis

Imraan Aziz

Jose Tadeo De Castro

Gordon W Lam

Sean M MacLeod

Christopher R Ralph

Mark Alan Tempel

Domenic S Giuntoli

Jason T Panzenbeck

Charles Stewart McCall

Robert W Mericle

Nicholas R Kalayjian

Chung-Ming Ying

Jose Tv De Castro

Imrann Aziz

Joseph Kennelly Ullman

Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for preventing buckling of an elongated instrument as it is advanced through a channel. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes an anti-buckling device including at least one movable support bracket. The bracket includes a generally planar member having an inner orifice and an outer edge configured to movably engage an inner surface of a channel. The planar member is configured to provide lateral support to an elongated instrument chosen from one of a needle and a probe responsive to the elongated instrument being motivated through the channel by an actuator. The at least one bracket also includes a positioning member that extends from the planar member. The positioning member is configured to prevent the planar member from twisting within the channel. The positioning member is configured to move relative to a distal end of the actuator so as not to impede movement of the actuator.

Real-time sampling system

The present disclosure provides alert implants that comprise a medical device and an implantable reporting processor (IRP), where one example of such a medical device includes a component for a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) such as a tibial extension, a femoral component for hip replacements, a breast implant, a distal rod for arm or leg breakage repair, a scoliosis rod, a dynamic hip screw, a spinal interbody spacer, and tooling and methods that may be used to form the alert implant, and uses of such alert implants in the health maintenance of patients who receive the implant.

Implantable reporting processor for an alert implant

Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for engaging a stylet within a needle. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a stylet configured to be insertable into a lumen of a needle via a proximal port of secured to a needle actuator secured to the needle; and an end cap fixably coupled to the stylet and configured to cover a proximal end of the needle actuator and to be movable relative to the needle actuator to enable an operator to withdraw the stylet from the lumen.

Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for controlling advancement of a needle deployed through a control system. In an illustrative embodiment, a needle actuator is configured to be fixably coupled to a proximal end of a needle. A first release device is movably coupled to the needle actuator and is engageable to release the needle actuator to move from a retracted position to a ready position where the distal end of the needle is adjacent the distal end of the sheath. A second release device is movably coupled to the needle actuator and is engageable to release the needle actuator to move from the ready position to a sampling position where the distal end of the needle is advanceable into tissue to be sampled.

A device and system for allowing real-time viewing of a procedure beyond a distal end of an endoscope. An exemplary device includes a sheath that has at least two lumens and a handle. The handle includes a connector that connects to a proximal end of an endoscope, a shaft portion that rotatably connects to a proximal end of the connector and a manifold that is slidably received by the shaft portion. The manifold connects to the sheath and allows for insertion of a radial ultrasound probe and a medical tool into the sheath. A stopping device in the manifold avoids accidental needle deployment.

Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for cutting an opening in a tissue wall. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes an inner cutting member having a first cylindrical body supporting at least one first cutting surface at a distal end. The first cutting surface faces a first rotational direction relative to an axis of the first cylindrical body and has a first cutting edge at an outer periphery of the first cylindrical body. The apparatus also includes an outer cutting member having a second cylindrical body concentrically disposed around the first cylindrical body and supporting at least one second cutting surface at the distal end. The second cutting surface faces a second rotational direction relative to the axis and has a second cutting edge at an inner periphery of the second cylindrical body. A tissue is rotatably scissorable between the first cutting edge of the inner cutting member and the second cutting edge of the outer cutting member responsive to application of the distal end of the apparatus against a tissue and counter-rotating the inner cutting member and the outer cutting member.

Rotational tissue cutting device

An introducer assembly includes a first actuating mechanism for actuating a constraining sheath between a first state releasably constraining a vascular implant and a second state allowing deployment of the vascular implant; a second actuating mechanism for actuating a blocking mechanism between a blocked state for blocking other functions of the handle and an unblocked state for allowing operation of the other functions of the handle; and an operating knob operatively coupled to both of the first and second actuating mechanisms for concurrent operation of both of the first and second actuating mechanisms in response to actuation of the operating knob.

Deployment handle for a medical device deployment system

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

David A Herrin