Integra Lifesciences (ireland) Ltd.

University of South Florida

Zoll Medical Corporation

James P O'Connor

Daniel J Cotter

Matthew F Shinopulos

Saurav V Gupta

Thomas B Freeman

Mark Weary

Maria Benson

Amin Kassam

Denise Eizadkhah

Dan E Goldman

Brett B Bonner

Kristen B McCarthy

Shannon L Peterson

Martin F Trew

Denise R Eizadkhah

A medical treatment system includes a medical treatment device for monitoring and providing treatment to a patient and a companion device communicatively coupled to the medical treatment device. The medical treatment device may display case information including physiological information visually rendered from physiological sensor inputs in a first display format and transmit the case information and medical data to the companion device. The companion device may include a device interface having a display screen to accept user input instructions for the medical treatment device during a medical event. The companion device may process the case information and medical data received from the medical treatment device and also cause display, at the device interface, of multiple data display views in which each of the display views is selectable via a respective display view selection portion of the device interface.

Medical treatment system with companion device

An ultrasonic horn for use with an ultrasonic surgical hand piece including a resonator comprises a contacting annulus having a plurality of angled lands. The lands are alternated around the annulus such that adjacent lands have opposite angles. As a result of the adjacent angled lands, a shear stress field is developed in contacted tissue due to the promotion of refracted longitudinal ultrasonic waves propagating in different directions at the interface to the coupled tissue. The shear stress field enhances the fragmentation and removal rate of fibrous, elastic, and tenacious tissue. The horn is hollow permitting suction to be applied to the tissue for controlling tissue contact with the lands.

Method of creating a shear stress field with medical device

Method of applying shear stress

Ultrasonic horns configured for use with a surgical ultrasonic handpiece including a resonator are described. The ultrasonic horns include an elongated member having a longitudinal internal channel extending therethrough. Disposed on the distal end of the elongated member is a tip lead configured for cutting and/or abrading hard tissue, for example bone. The tip lead includes an abrasive surface.

Bone abrading ultrasonic horns

Shear stress ultrasonic horn for ultrasonic surgical aspiration

The present invention makes a grid array, for use in the transplantation of materials into the brain, in the shape of a predetermined structure, such as the putamen, based on anatomic analysis the structure. Alternatively, a smaller grid array is used which only includes the putamen target and not the caudate target, and also has two windows within the grid array. Because of the smaller size of this grid array as well as the two cutouts in the middle, it is possible for the first time to observe the brain as the needle enters the brain through the grid array. The previous solid and larger grid array made the passage of the needle into the brain a blind maneuver. Therefore if there was cortical bleeding at the time of needle insertion, it would not be known until after the transplant was done.

Putamen grid

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Billerica, MA, United States of America

James P O'Connor