Ethicon, Gmbh

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Endo-Surgery, Inc.

Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.

Noha Elmouelhi

Kevin L Cooper

Hong Yee Low

Sriram Natarajan

Isabel Rodriguez

Chee Tiong Lim

Emma Kim Luong-Van

Doug Souls

Murty Narayan Vyakarnam

Alexander M Cannara

Audrey Yoke Yee Ho

Robert Anthony Rousseau

Jared Schneider

Christophe Vailhe

Wayne Holloway

Isabel Rodriquez

A needle camera adaptor includes a tube-shaped body having a proximal end, a distal end, a longitudinal axis, and a lumen that extends along the longitudinal axis. A centrally-located lateral access opening is formed in an outer wall of the tube-shaped body. A needle securing channel is formed in the outer wall and extends between the lateral access opening and the distal end of the tube-shaped body. A curved suture needle is disposed within the needle securing channel. The needle securing channel and the curved suture needle extend along an axis that defines an oblique angle with the longitudinal axis of the needle camera adaptor. A visualization device, facing distally, is positioned within the lumen at the proximal end of the tube-shaped body. The lateral access opening, the needle securing channel, and the curved suture needle are located within a field of view of the visualization device.

Suture needle adaptors for delivering suture needles through cannulas while simultaneously visualizing the delivery of the suture needles through the cannulas

A needle sheath includes a tubular shaft having a chamfered edge at a distal end thereof. A stop flange is secured to a proximal end of the tubular shaft. A needle relief slot is formed in a bottom side of the tubular shaft. The needle relief slot has a length that extends along an axis that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tubular shaft. A needle point slot formed in a top side of the tubular shaft. The needle point slot has a length that extends along an axis that is perpendicular to both the longitudinal axis of the tubular shaft and the needle relief slot axis. A suture needle is disposed within the tubular shaft of the needle sheath. The suture needle has a curved body that passes through the needle relief slot and a needle point captured within the needle point slot.

Systems, devices and methods of using needle sheaths for passing curved, superelastic suture needles through trocars

A polydioxanone film comprising substantially cylindrical polydioxanone pillars on at least one side thereof, said pillars having diameters from about 0.2 &#x3bc;m to about 3 &#x3bc;m, and heights from about 2 &#x3bc;m to about 20 &#x3bc;m from the surface of the film, a process for adsorbing proteins using the film and medical devices incorporating the film.

Super-hydrophilic structures

A blood clotting substrate and device which has a plurality of oxygen plasma-treated polypropylene pillars extending from the surface of a polypropylene film.

Blood clotting substrate and medical device

Synthetic polymer substrates comprising a hierarchical surface structure of multiple domes and multiple pillars on said domes, wherein said substrate is a synthetic polymer film, said domes have diameters in the range from about 5 &#x3bc;m to about 400 &#x3bc;m, heights in the range from about 2.5 &#x3bc;m and about 500 &#x3bc;m, and said pillars have diameters in the range from about 20 nm to about 5 &#x3bc;m and aspect ratios of from about 2 to about 50, and methods of making and using them.

Super-hydrophobic hierarchical structures, method of forming them and medical devices incorporating them

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Noha Elmouelhi