Covidien LP

Emma Hurst

Ujwal Jalgaonkar

Eric Mintz

David P Marchesiello

Gaurav Girdhar

Edwin Wang

Syamala Rani Pulugurtha

Brad Jackson

Peter Skujins

Kevin Nguyen

Kamel M Chair

Kevin V Nguyen

In some examples, a medical aspiration system is configured to control medical aspiration based on a cardiac cycle of a patient. For example, a medical aspiration system can include a suction source configured to apply a suction force to a catheter to remove fluid from the catheter, and control circuitry configured to control the suction force applied by the suction source to the catheter based on a cardiac cycle of a patient.

Medical aspiration

In some examples, a catheter includes an expandable member configured to expand radially outward from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration. The expandable member is configured to be expanded and contracted in a controlled manner, e.g., in response to user actuation or automatically under the control of control circuitry of a device. For example, in some examples, control circuitry of a device can be configured to control the expandable member to expand and contract according to a predetermined expansion frequency or according to an expansion frequency determined based on a cardiac cycle of a patient.

Aspiration systems and methods, and expanding-mouth catheters

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Torrance, CA, United States of America

Emma Hurst