Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuusuke Uchida

Takashi Kumazawa

Ryosuke Maeda

Ryosuke Ueda

Toshiaki Shinohara

Masaaki Watanabe

A puncture system that is configured to automatically puncture a radial artery of a hand of a patient includes: a grip to be gripped by the hand; a blood vessel detection unit that detects a position of an artery of the hand that grips the grip; an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a relative posture of the grip and a puncture needle a forward mechanism to move the puncture needle forward toward the grip; and a control unit that determines, in accordance with the position of the artery detected by the blood vessel detection unit, a relative posture of the grip and the puncture needle and a forward distance of the puncture needle, and controls operations of the adjustment mechanism and the forward mechanism on the basis of the posture and the forward distance having been determined.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yuusuke Uchida