Medtronic, Inc.

Stereotaxis, Inc.

Jonathan C Sell

Scott M Hanson

Adam J Rivard

Joseph P Ricci

Sean Patrick Skubitz

Andrew F Hall

Christopher M Boyd

Roger Noel Hastings

Raju R Viswanathan

Phillip C Falkner

Jeffrey M Garibaldi

Jerel K Mueller

Robert T Sandgren

Andrew Jay Cleland

Jayesh R Patel

Jeffrey M Novotny

Elizabeth K Formosa

Kyle Dahlstrom

Wen Tan

Emily Paukert

Thomas F Neils

Forrest Cm Pape

An epidural space is cleared of fat and scar tissue in preparation for implantation of a medical lead by utilizing a clearing tool. The clearing tool has an outer body and an inner body present within a lumen of the outer body. The outer body may be malleable and have a pre-set deflection or may be flexible and achieve deflection when being inserted into the epidural space. Once in the epidural space, the inner body is extended distally from the lumen of the outer body such that a distal tip on the inner body extends further into the epidural space to provide clearing to the target site without requiring further ingress of the outer body. The inner body is retracted and the clearing tool is removed. The medical lead is then inserted through the window and cleared epidural space until reaching the target site.

Methods and tools for clearing for epidural space in preparation for medical lead implantation

Distal connector assemblies that are on the distal end of medical lead extensions provide increased rigidity by including a rigid holder that contains the electrical connectors. The electrical connectors are separated within the rigid holder by insulative spacers that may be individual items or may be formed from a compliant carrier that the electrical connectors may reside within where the carrier is positioned within the rigid holder. The rigid holder may also contain a set screw block defining set screw bore or the rigid holder may include an integral portion that defines a set screw bore. The integral portion may include a slot to allow a molding pin loaded with the electrical connectors and other components to be dropped into a cavity of the rigid holder. An overmold may be present to surround the rigid body containing the electrical connectors and insulative spacers.

Distal connector assemblies for medical lead extensions

The disclosure describes example devices, systems, and techniques for delivering electrical stimulation to a patient. In some examples, an IMD includes a housing having a main portion and projection extending from the main portion. The projection of the housing may carry an electrode. Stimulation circuitry may be disposed within the main portion of the housing where the stimulation circuitry may generate electrical stimulation deliverable via the electrode. Processing circuitry may be disposed within the main portion of the housing where the processing circuitry may control the stimulation circuitry to generate the electrical stimulation.

Electrical stimulation device with minimally invasive delivery

A neuromodulation adaptor configured to provide an electrical coupling between an otherwise incompatible stimulation lead and neurostimulator device, the neuromodulation adaptor including a proximal portion having a plurality of electrical conductors spaced apart at a first pitch spacing and configured to electrically engage with a corresponding plurality of electrical terminals of a neurostimulator device, and a distal portion including a stimulation lead port assembly, the stimulation lead port assembly including an upper portion and a lower portion configured to house the plurality of conductor elements and a set screw assembly, the plurality of conductor elements and set screw assembly spaced apart at a second pitch spacing and configured to electrically engage with a corresponding plurality of electrical connectors of a stimulation lead.

Electrically isolated connector for implantable medical devices

Methods and tools for clearing the epidural space in preparation for medical lead implantation

A balloon catheter comprising an elongate tube having a proximal end and a distal end, and a lumen therebetween, and a balloon at the distal end of the tube, in fluid communication with the lumen. A magnetically responsive element at the distal end of the device sized and shaped to orient the distal end of the device in an operating region in a subject upon the application of a magnetic field from an external source magnet.

Magnetically navigable balloon catheters

A guide wire for magnetically navigating a medical device through in a subject's body comprising an elongate wire having a proximal and distal end, a portion adjacent the distal end that is more flexible than the more proximal portions of the elongate wire, and a first magnetically responsive element on the distal end of the elongate wire. The guide wire further comprises one or more magnetically responsive elements spaced apart from the first magnetically responsive element and disposed on the more flexible portion of the elongate wire. The guide wire provides for bending or deflecting the distal end of the stent, to provide easier navigation of the distal end of the guide wire and the stent through the vasculature of a subject body.

Stent delivery guide wire

Atherectomy devices are guided by and manipulated by externally applied magnetic fields to treat total or partial occlusions of a patient's vasculature.

Magnetically guided atherectomy

A method of placing a pacing lead in the heart includes introducing a distal end of a delivery catheter into the patient's vasculature; magnetically navigating the distal end of the delivery catheter to the patient's heart; deploying a pacing lead from the distal end of the delivery catheter; and magnetically navigating the pacing lead to the pacing application site.

Magnetically navigated pacing leads, and methods for delivering medical devices

A magnetically tipped catheter is used t tunnel into the myocardium for cardiac treatment.

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Eagan, MN, United States of America

Jonathan C Sell