Medtronic, Inc.

Lifecore Biomedical, Inc.

Michael Robert Klardie

Michael J Kern

Kris A Peterson

Matthew T Vanderpool

James M Olsen

Richard T Stone

Timothy R Abraham

Chad Qingshen Cai

Brian T Stolz

Mark J Conroy

Spencer M Bondhus

Bruce R Mehdizadeh

Marty D Martens

Spencer Fodness-Bondhus

Jeremy Matthew Huotari

Bruce A Behymer

Jay K Lahti

Jacob Silverberg

Peter B Swenson

Andrew J Ries

Robert D Carter

Thomas A Tremmel

Jean B Christensen

Eric John Wengreen

John E Burnes

William T Donofrio

Randy S Roles

Paul Gordon Krause

William K Wenger

George Patras

John E Nicholson

Daniel C Oster

William L Johnson

Michael L Hudziak

Jennifer J Zhao

John Eric Lovins

Jeffrey A Swanson

Richard A Bruchmann

Thomas J Olson

Olivier Blandin

Samira Tahvildari

Kathleen P Macke

Richard L Tvedt

John De Angelo

Peter B Swanson

Mark J Conway

Robert W Libbey

Michael K Berquist

Paul Vahle

A shield located within an implantable medical lead may be terminated in various ways at a metal connector. The shield may be terminated by various joints including butt, scarf, lap, or other joints between insulation layers surrounding the lead and an insulation extension. The shield may terminate with a physical and electrical connection to a single metal connector. The shield may terminate with a physical and electrical connection by passing between an overlapping pair of inner and outer metal connectors. The metal connectors may include features such as teeth or threads that penetrate the insulation layers of the lead. The shield may terminate with a physical and electrical connection by exiting a jacket of a lead adjacent to a metal connector and lapping onto the metal connector.

Termination of a shield within an implantable medical lead

Subcutaneous implantation tools and methods of implanting a subcutaneous device using the same. The tool may include a tool body having a longitudinally extending recess having a distal opening and having a tunneler at a distal end of the tool body extending from the distal opening of the recess. The tool may include a plunger slidably fitting within at least a portion of the tool body recess. The recess may be configured to receive an implantable device and the tunneler preferably extends distally from the recess at a position laterally displaced from the device when the device is so located in the recess. Movement of the plunger distally within the recess advances the device distally out of the recess and alongside of and exterior to the tunneler.

Subcutaneous delivery tool

Plunger

Implantable cardiac monitor

Tool handle

Incision tool

A shield located within an implantable medical lead may be terminated in various ways. The shield may be terminated by butt, scarf, lap, or other joints between insulation layers surrounding the lead and an insulation extension. For lap joints, a portion of an outer insulation layer may be removed and a replacement outer insulation layer is positioned in place of the removed outer insulation layer, where the replacement layer extends beyond an inner insulation layer and the shield. The replacement layer may also lap onto a portion of the insulation extension. The barbs may be located between the replacement layer and the inner insulation layer or the insulation extension. The shield wires have ends at the termination point that may be folded over individually or may be capped with a ring located within one of the insulation layers of the jacket.

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Michael Robert Klardie