Cook Medical Technologies LLC

Thomas A Kay

David Christian Lentz

Jeffry Scott Melsheimer

Michael W Hardert

William F Moore

Michael D Deckard

James Elsesser

James C Elsesser

A catheter includes a catheter body defining first and second lumens, and a wire having first and second segments each with a greater stiffness, and a middle segment with a lesser stiffness. The wire is in an elastically deformed access state where the middle segment extends from an opening to the first lumen to an opening to the second lumen and forms a smaller loop. The wire is adjustable via sliding the first and second segments in opposed directions to an elastically deformed treatment state where the first segment extends from the opening to the first lumen to the opening to the second lumen and forms a larger loop.

Looped wire catheter and method

A spring action medical device includes a spring that may propel a hammer component in a distal direction when the spring is released from a loaded state. When propelled forward by the spring, the hammer component makes contact with a distal tip of the medical device. The distal tip may then transfer a force to an external object, such as an occlusion in a body lumen.

Spring action medical device

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Bloomington, IN, United States of America

Thomas A Kay