Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Ryan Nowicki

Elizabeth Anne Theobald

Cleon Stanley

Michael Robert Kurrus

Derek Roe Eller

James A Taylor

Neha S Bhagchandani

Meridith Cavett

Erik Hughes

Elizabeth A Champagne

Among other things, embodiments of a retaining mechanism for holding a portion of the suture of a suture anchor are disclosed. When a suture anchor is inserted into a patient, the portion of the suture extending from the body is held in tension by a two-piece snap-fit mechanism. One piece has a base with an extending shaft portion and a bulbous head, and a lumen runs through the shaft. The second piece has a hole or space for snapping the second piece onto the first piece. The extending portion of the suture runs through the lumen in the first piece and can be wrapped around the shaft. Snapping the second piece onto the first contains the suture and prevents loss of tension in it.

External retention mechanism for suture anchor

A multilumen catheter with an inflow or an outflow lumen having at least two tube extensions extending from the distal end of the catheter that open into the inflow or outflow lumen. The catheter is useful in the extracorporeal treatment of blood, such as hemodialysis, hemofiltration or apheresis. A device to selectively test each of the two tube extensions for occlusion.

Multi-split-tipped catheter

A drive system is provided for rotating and translating a biopsy member. The drive system includes housing having an opening having housing threads. A device gear within the opening has device gear threads that mate with the housing threads. A biopsy member is fixed to the device gear. The device gear threads have gear teeth that mate with pinion teeth that are disposed circumferentially on a pinion. A drive is configured to rotate the pinion thereby rotating and translating the biopsy member relative to the housing.

Drive system for a biopsy member

There is disclosed, among other things, embodiments of a biopsy needle for taking a full core sample through soft tissue. In the illustrated embodiments, an inner tubular member having a semi-cylindrical distal end is within and slidable with respect to an outer tubular member. A semi-cylindrical channel is in the distal end, as well as a planar end surface. The channel has a set of one or more protrusions or texture, and a complementary set of protrusions or texture are placed on the inside of the outer member so that the sets of protrusions or texture face each other when the distal ends of the members are adjacent each other. Methods for using these embodiments are also described.

Half cannula full core biopsy needle

External retention mechanics for suture anchor

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Bloomington, IN, United States of America

Ryan Nowicki