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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2009
Fred E. Silverstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Fred E. Silverstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A system and method places a percutaneous gastrostomy device into a body cavity of a patient using a magnetic gastrostomy tube and a medical detection sensing device. The magnetic gastrostomy tube has a ferromagnetic element attached to its distal end. Various embodiments allow a needle to be passed from the magnetic detection sensing device outside the patient toward a magnetic gastrostomy tube inside the patient or, alternatively, from the magnetic gastrostomy tube inside the patient toward the magnetic detection sensing device outside the patient. After a needle makes a hole between the outside of the patient and the body cavity, a medical wire may be passed through the hole, and the medical wire can then be used to place the percutaneous gastrostomy device.