Surgery – Instruments – Means for inserting or removing conduit within body
Reexamination Certificate
2004-02-02
2010-10-12
Sirmons, Kevin C (Department: 3767)
Surgery
Instruments
Means for inserting or removing conduit within body
C604S174000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07811293
ABSTRACT:
A method and system are disclosed for rapid placement of tubes within a body cavity that includes placing a compliant cannula over a probe tip of a cutting device until the probe tip extends beyond the cannula, incising the tissue covering body cavity to create an opening therein, inserting the probe tip of the cutting device until the cannula placed thereon extends into the incision, removing the probe tip while leaving the cannula inserted within the incision, introducing a distal end or tip of a tube into the cannula a predetermined distance, and removing the cannula over the tube while retaining the tube in position within the body cavity. The device includes a sealing portion which attaches to the body without sutures and having an opening therethrough, and a tube which passes through the opening of the seal and mates thereto without sutures.
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Gillespie Walter Dean
Matsuura David G.
Salvino Chris K.
Simpson Philip J.
Trinchera Jim
Anderson Michael J
Gillespie Walter Dean
Jaffer David H.
Matsuura David G.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman LLP
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