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Vascular Solutions, Inc.

William B Atkinson

Yem Chin

Paul Scopton

Paul S Teirstein

William L Gould

William R Bronaugh

Robert F Carmichael, Jr

Osama Amine

Provided are devices and methods for catheter and guidewire management in a surgical setting. In one implementation, the device includes a housing having a curved bottom surface for accommodating the shape of a patient's leg. A retaining member is included, which can retain one or more guidewires, catheters, or the like. In another embodiment, the housing may include a number of vertical supports between which are mounted at least one retaining member housing. The retaining member housing may in turn house a retaining member, suitable for receiving and retaining one or more elongated devices such as catheters or guidewires. The retaining member may have a suitable size, shape, and level of flexibility to allow a catheter or guidewire to be placed therein and held with a desired level of force until such a time as a user desires to remove the catheter or guidewire.

Guidewire and catheter management device

A device for loading a guide wire into the open end of a tubular instrument, such as a catheter. The device can be a block of material having a groove in its surface. The ends of the guide wire and the tubular instrument are placed into the groove and moved toward each other. When the ends meet, the groove guides the guide wire into the open end of the tubular instrument. The groove, or at least a portion of the groove, can have a cross-sectional contour that closely matches the outside radius of the tubular instrument. The groove can have a substantially vertical wall and a substantially non-vertical wall. A variety of attachment mechanisms may be provided for attaching the device to a towel draping a patient.

Guide wire loading method and apparatus with towel attachment mechanism

A display system having a single-frame transparency which contains four independent images, each of the images having spaced apart groups of pixels interlaced with the groups of pixels from each of the other images, each of the images being selectable for projection by a movable grid mask, is provided. A method for preparing and displaying four images from a single-frame transparency is also disclosed. The single-free transparency having interlaced groups of pixels from four individual images is formed from four individual transparencies having a copy pattern formed thereon, the copy pattern being divided into spaced apart square shaped groups of pixels defining a matrix of translucent optic segments. The mosaic transparency is mounted in a back lighted box and then overlaid with a grid mask having a plurality of grid apertures in registered alignment with the optic segments representing one of the images and the grid lines of the grid mask blocking projection of light through the other optic segments from each of the other images. The grid mask is then sequentially displaced in a square pattern to sequentially register the grid apertures with the optic segments of each of the other images, and thereby sequentially displaying each of the four images provided on the single-frame transparency.

Method and apparatus for preparing and displaying visual displays

A shuttle display apparatus including a base formed with multiple sets of pairs of parallel lateral tracks connected together on their opposite ends by respective longitudinal shuttle tracks. Display panels are racked together for translinear travel progressively in such lateral tracks to selectively display, in coplanar relationship, the respective front sides of a pair of such panels in one direction and to thereafter selectively display the back sides of such panels in coplanar relationship in the opposite direction. A drive is provided for automatically advancing a pair of panels along a pair of lateral tracks and then shuttling one panel of the pairs to an adjacent pair of lateral tracks to dispose such pair of panels abreast of one another in a coplanar displaying position for displaying composite messages in one direction or another.

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Yorba Linda, CA, United States of America

William B Atkinson