Covidien LP

Zoll Circulation, Incorporated

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Incorporated

Jessica Megan Clayton

James George Hanlon

Lawrence Lee Go

Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak

Richard Allen Smith

Christo Petrov Pamichev

John Thomas Buckley

Sean W Yip

Craig Wendell Pendry

Paul Eric Peterson

Miranda M Ray

Michael Thai

Young Vo

Tim Ngoc Huynh

Robert Gordon McRae

John William Jacobsen

David B Swedlow

Donald Scott Nelson

Roger Mecca

Joel C Colburn

Devices, systems and methods for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange.

Devices, systems and methods for endovascular temperature control

A sheath comprises an elastomeric tube having a self-expanding scaffold coupled to a wall. The scaffold can expand to a diameter larger than the tube diameter to provide an enlarged distal opening. An aspiration catheter has a balloon and an aspiration port so that occlusive material can be removed from a blood vessel by drawing the balloon through the vessel while simultaneously aspirating through the port.

Introducer sheaths, thrombus collection devices, and associated methods

The apparatus includes a catheter having a combined infusion/aspiration lumen, a three lumen proximal portion and a two lumen distal portion. An infusion/aspiration valve located at the distal end of the catheter facilitates performing infusion and aspiration through the same lumen, which in turn reduces the number of lumens, and enables the combined infusion/aspiration lumen to be made larger without the need to increase the diameter of the catheter. Differing material properties in the proximal and distal portions of the catheter enable the proximal portion to be made stiffer for pushability, while the distal portion is more flexible to navigate tortuous vasculature and enable a greater amplitude agitator to be received within the catheter.

Apparatus and methods for clot disruption and evacuation

A multi-layer inflatable balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endrotracheal tube. The outer layer and the inner layer of the balloon cuff may have different material properties that may enhance a cuff's mechanical pressure seal by reducing wrinkles or folds that may form against a patient's tracheal walls.

Endotracheal cuff and technique for using the same

An inflatable cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endotracheal tube. Packaging and transporting of these cuffs while inflated may provide for decreased wrinkles and thereby improved sealing of the trachea. Provided is a package for a medical device with an inflatable region, comprising a substantially non-stretchable region that substantially conforms to the shape of the inflatable region of the medical device when the inflatable region is inflated.

Method for shipping and protecting an endotracheal tube with an inflated cuff

A multi-layer inflatable balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endotracheal tube. The outer layer and the inner layer of the balloon cuff may have different material properties that may enhance a cuff's mechanical pressure seal by reducing wrinkles or folds that may form against a patient's tracheal walls.

A medical device may include a tubular body configured to communicate gas and an inflatable cuff coupled to the tubular body at least by a collar. The tubular body may include an opening. The collar may include a notch positioned relative to the opening in the tubular body such that a passageway extends through at least a portion of the notch and at least a portion of the opening.

Medical tube including an inflatable cuff having a notched collar

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Jessica Megan Clayton