New Wave Endo-surgical Corp.

Juan Carlos Diaz

Ricardo Alexander Gomez

Sandy Lawrence Heck

Theo Dienes

George Ferzli

Salvatore Castro

Christian Abreu

A handheld advancer is provided for advancing an elongate device through a pathway defined in an advancer body and include a rotatable manual control partially embedded in the body to receive a user-exerted manual control movement from a thumb of a single hand that can hold and control the advancer and advancement. The advancer can include a manual drive arranged to convert torque applied by the thumb for a rotation arc distance into a translation drive force applied for translating the elongate device an advancement distance scaled at force factor and distance factor. The distance factor can be one or greater than one and translate the elongate device an amplified advancement distance compared with manual input. The advancer can include a nip having a pair of rollers extending into the pathway providing constant control and amplified translation via concave compressible surfaces forming continuous contact regions with the elongate device.

Handheld elongate medical device advancer and related systems, devices and methods

Portion of a medical device

Medical device

A knot pusher device for surgical port closure includes a head portion having at least one suture guide inlet and at least one suture retainer, the head portion being configured to contact a suture knot inside an incision to close a portion of a surgical port made by the incision, and a coupling member operatively connected to the head portion, the coupling member enabling releasable connection of the knot pusher device to a suturing device.

Specialized knot pusher for surgical port closure and suturing devices

Emergency infant carrier

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Pembroke Pines, FL, United States of America

Juan Carlos Diaz