Disclosed are systems and methods for biopsy, drainage, drug administration, electrode implantation and/or tumor ablation employing percutaneous procedures for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, performed by inserting a needle or probe through the skin of patient towards target anatomy using a patient mounted robot.

Medical devices for delivering compositions or medical articles to a patient are disclosed. The medical plug delivery devices can include a fluid delivery device (e.g., a syringe), a frame, and a rotatable magazine. The rotatable magazine can include a plurality of chambers that each hold a composition or a medical article (e.g., a medical plug). By rotating the rotatable magazine relative to the frame, material within the chambers of the rotatable magazine can be sequentially deployed to a patient.

A surgical support apparatus for supporting and positioning a patient's limb or an instrument during surgical procedures. The apparatus consists of an adjustable structural component which houses a separate hydraulic system used for locking and unlocking the structural apparatus. The structural component includes three lockable joints and two rigid support arms. Each joint houses a hydraulic piston and a locking ring. Hydraulic pressure is supplied to the joints by an electric motor and pump and is controlled by an electric circuit, pressure sensors and valves. When hydraulic pressure is applied, the pistons are activated, locking the joints. Hydraulic pressure can also be released to unlock the joints through a user control circuit. The structural component also includes a universal rail clamp to attach the device to a support structure and a distal quick connect for attachment of accessory devices.

A haptic interface for a robot-assisted surgical system makes use of a plurality of sensors and a plurality of bladders each mountable to fingers a human hand. A processor receives user input from the sensors in response to movement of the fingers and, in response to the input, causing movement or actuation of a surgical instrument on a robotic manipulator. The processor also receives force input from force sensors of the surgical system corresponding to forces against the surgical instrument, and in response to the force input causing fluid to move into one or more of the bladders.

Provided is a filling liquid (161) for filling a balloon (170) for a method for occluding a tubular organ, including a microcapsule (162) in which a balloon-dissolving substance that dissolves the balloon (170) is encapsulated, wherein the microcapsule is destroyable by an ultrasonic beam; and a liquid that is harmless in the tubular organ and does not dissolve the balloon. Further provided is a method for terminating a tubular organ occlusion including a step of applying an ultrasonic beam to a balloon (170) that is filled with the filling liquid (161) and occludes a tubular organ, thereby breaking the balloon (170) as a result.

A dynamic balloon angioplasty system for applying a dynamic pressure to fracture hardened materials embedded within an elastic conduit. The system having a pressure source system outputting at least a first predetermined pressure from a pressure source outlet, and an angioplasty unit fluidly coupled to the pressure source outlet receiving at least the first predetermined pressure. The angioplasty unit having an angioplasty inflation device, an angioplasty balloon connector, and an oscillating mechanism selectively actuated to output a plurality of pressure pulses to the angioplasty balloon via a fluid communication path. A control system is configured to determine an optimal hydraulic pressure oscillation frequency and amplitude for a given procedure and output a control signal to the oscillating mechanism, and monitor a pressure signal to detect fracture of the hardened material within the elastic conduit or system failure or leakage.

The present technology relates to systems and methods for removing a thrombus from a blood vessel of a patient. In some embodiments, the present technology is directed to systems including an elongated catheter having a distal portion configured to be positioned within the blood vessel of the patient, a proximal portion configured to be external to the patient, and a lumen extending therebetween. The system can also include an imaging element at the distal portion, an illumination source at the distal portion, a capture element at the distal portion and configured to engage the thrombus, a fluid delivery mechanism within the lumen and configured to apply fluid to (1) at least partially fragment the thrombus and (2) provide an optical path for the imaging element, and an aspiration mechanism fluidly coupled to the lumen and configured to aspirate the fragmented thrombus.

Robotic surgical systems configured to control the movement and actuation of a single robotic arm, and the movement and actuation of first and second tools carried in a tool holder at a distal end of the robotic arm.

A spinal adjustment system including at least one thermally actuated pump element.

Devices and methods for treatment of a patient's vasculature may include a resilient self-expanding permeable implant having a plurality of elongate filaments secured in a hub at a proximal end of the permeable implant. Each of the plurality of elongate filaments may have a diameter between about 0.0005 and about 0.005 inches. The implant includes at least some filaments consisting of nitinol and at least some composite filaments that are drawn filled tube wires comprising an external nitinol tube and a radiopaque material concentrically disposed within the external tube. The implant has at least about 40% composite filaments relative to a total number of filaments, and wherein a total number of filaments is about 10 to about 300.