Smith + Nephew

Csa Medical, Inc.

Cordero, Rafael

Fan, Wei

Davidson, Marc

Sheets, Ellen

Sarli, Amy

Hanley, Brian, M.

Hawke, Heather, V.

Maners, Wendelin

Sherrill, David

Griffin, Stephen

Wei Li Fan

Brian M Hanley

Mark Edwin Housman

Rebecca Ann Blough

Ellen Sheets

Stephen A Griffin

Rafael Cordero

Paul Steven Vincuilla

Marc Davidson

Paul Alexander Torrie

Wendelin Maners

David Sherrill

Heather V Hawkes

Peter James Cashmore

Amy Sarli

Michael Charles Ferragamo

Richard Mark Lunn

James Joseph Sullivan

Steven William Astorino

Marc Joseph Philippon

David Leo Bombard

Timothy Young

Linh Tuong Nguyen

John Slusarz

Thomas I Mulcahey

Jim Sullivan

Matthew Edwin Koski

Bernard Joseph Bourque

William Richard Davis

Ben Kim Graf

Paul Robert Duhamel

Benedict Shia

Sergei Babko-Malyi

Stephen Griffin

Amanda Simard

Stephen M McCARTIN

Mark Davidson

Rick Lunn

Heather V Hawke

Paul R Duhamel

A cryosurgery system for application of medical-grade liquid nitrogen to a treatment area via a small, low pressure, open tipped catheter. The system includes a console, including a touch panel computer, a cryogen module, a suction module and an electronics module, and a disposable spray kit. Features include optional low cryogen flow setting to reduce the cryogen flow rate by 50%, improved cryogen flow consistency reducing pressure pulses and peaks, an integrated suction pump for improved consistency and self-checks, specified vent tube areas and corresponding maximum expected pressures during cryospray procedure; optional pressure sensing capability to monitor pressure during a treatment, and novel catheter designs of multilayer and flexible construction providing a variety of spray patterns.

Cryospray catheters

A method and system for automated and semi-automated predictable, consistent, safe, effective, and lumen-specific and patient-specific cryospray treatment of airway tissue in which treatment duration is automatically set by the system following entry of patient information and treatment location information into the system by the user, and treatment spray is automatically stopped by the system when the automatically selected treatment duration has been achieved as determined by the system.

Method and system for consistent, repeatable, and safe cryospray treatment of airway tissue

Examples of a suture anchor () having a non-expandable body () and expendable cap () are described herein. In response to an axial insertion force that brings the non-expandable body and expendable cap together inside a bone hole, the expendable cap expands radially. This creates a radial force of expansion that advantageously augments an interference fit between the suture anchor and bone hole, which leads to higher fixation strength. Other examples include retention features that inhibit the expendable cap from returning back into its unexpanded state. This advantageously maintains the radial force of expansion against the surrounding pressure of the walls of the bone hole pressing back on the suture.

Distal tip two piece external expansion anchor

Examples of a suture anchor having a small diameter and having a soft suture bridge or suture eyelet are described herein. The soft suture bridge/suture eyelet allows a repair suture to slide, which is desirable when tying knots. In some cases, the soft suture bridge/suture eyelet itself is made from a length of suture.

Microanchor

Described herein are suture anchors systems and methods for installing suture anchor systems in bone. Suture anchor systems described herein include a plurality of annular ribs formed around an elongated cylindrical body, a tip adapted for inserting into a bone, one or more longitudinal channels defined by one or more notches in at least one of the annular ribs, and a transverse bore adapted to receive at least one suture and in communication with the longitudinal channel(s). The suture anchor system is partially inserted into the bone, the sutures are adjusted, and insertion is completed, securing the suture anchor and the suture in the bone.

Knotless anchor for instability repair

According to a first configuration, a hand tool is configured to include a shaft, a handle disposed at a proximal end of the shaft, and a tubular tip disposed on a hinge at a distal end of the shaft. The tubular tip pivots about the hinge, providing a way to steer a resource to a specific location in a medical site. In accordance with a second configuration, a hand tool includes a flexible section of tube, a flexible sheathing, and a link. The flexible sheathing encases the flexible section of tube. At least a portion of the link resides between an outer surface of the flexible section of tube and an inner surface of the flexible sheathing. One end of the link is affixed to a distal tip of the flexible section of tube. Pulling on the link causes the flexible section of tube to arc.

Cannulated guide tools

The present disclosure relates to a delivery device and screw combination. The combination includes a delivery device comprising a handle and a shaft coupled to the handle, the shaft including a proximal end, a distal end, a non-circular cannulation, and markings along a length of the shaft; an interference screw coupled to the delivery device comprising a proximal end and a distal end, the screw including threads extending in an open helical form from the proximal end to the distal end, a suture bridge located at a distal end of the screw and housed within a slot of the delivery device shaft, and a plurality of runners extending longitudinally along an interior of the screw, the runners housed within grooves of the delivery device shaft; and a suture disposed around the suture bridge, ends of the suture extending through the cannulation of the delivery device shaft.

Composite interference screws and drivers

The present invention relates to medical apparatuses and procedures for reconstructing a ligament. There is provided a trephine () comprising an adaptor (), an elongate reamer () coupled thereto, and a reamer support stem (), wherein the reamer support stem is mounted concentrically within the reamer and adaptor, and whereinat least a portion of the reamer support stem is slidably moveable about a longitudinal axis of the trephine.

Trephine

The present disclosure relates to a delivery device and screw combination. The combination includes a delivery device comprising a handle and a shall coupled to the handle, the shaft including a proximal end, a distal end, a non-circular cannulation, and markings along a length of the shaft; an interference screw coupled to the delivery device comprising a proximal end and a distal end, the screw including threads extending in an open helical form from the proximal end to the distal end, a suture bridge located at a distal end of the screw and housed within a slot of the delivery device shaft, and a plurality of runners extending longitudinally along an interior of the screw, the runners housed within grooves of the delivery device shaft; and a suture disposed around the suture bridge, ends of the suture extending through the cannulation of the delivery device shaft.

An apparatus for elevating tissue within a body, including a tubular member having a proximal end and a distal end and a central axis defined therethrough, in which the tubular member comprises a first lumen and a second lumen, separately formed therein, a balloon secured to a region of the tubular member, in which a region of the tubular member is engagable with an injection mechanism, in which the engaged injection mechanism is engagable to be in communication with the first lumen of the tubular member, and in which the first lumen of the tubular member provides a path to an interior of the balloon.

Inflatable, steerable balloon for elevation of tissue within a body

A device () includes a shaft (), a coil (), and a suture (). The coil has a sharp tip () and is releasably coupled to the shaft. The suture is coupled to the coil and extends through the shaft.

Tissue lifting

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Boston, MA, United States of America

Wei Li Fan