A61J15/0019

Device for external percutaneous connections

The present invention provides devices for creating an external percutaneous fluidic connections. In one embodiment, a needle is configured for extending through an endoscope. The needle includes a distal sharp tip and a lumen extending therethrough. The needle extends out of the endoscope within a body cavity to create an incision through a patient's skin. A safety cap is attached over the distal sharp tip without occluding the needle lumen. A wire is inserted through the needle lumen such that it extends from outside the body at the incision, through the body, and outside the body at the patient's mouth. After removing the needle and the endoscope from the body, a PEG device is coupled to the wire at the patient's mouth, and the PEG device is delivered through the upper GI tract and out through the incision.

SURGICAL DRAPE KIT
20170071689 · 2017-03-16 · ·

A surgical drape kit for performing a surgical procedure includes a surgical drape having a fenestration site; a plurality of containers attached to the surgical drape; and a plurality of components used to perform a surgical procedure. The containers are attached to the surgical drape around a perimeter of the fenestration site. Each container includes at least one component. Disposition of the components inside the containers is determined by sequential steps of the surgical procedure.

NASOJEJUNAL FEEDING TUBE WITH EXPANDABLE WIRE FOR RETENTION

A device includes a flexible catheter and at least one wirefrom. The catheter includes a first lumen extending therethrough and is sized and shaped to extend to a target location within a gastrointestinal (GI) system. A first distal portion of the catheter includes one or more exit ports communicating with the first lumen for administering a fluid to the location. The wireform is attached around the catheter or deployable from within the catheter, the wireform being formed so that, in a first state, the wireform assumes a first shape suitable for guiding the catheter to the location and, in a second state, the wireform assumes a second shape in which the wire extends away from the catheter in at least one radial direction for contacting a wall of the location to anchor the catheter in the location while administering the fluid via the first lumen.

Gastrojejunal tube apparatus and methods of use

Gastrojejunal (GJ) tube apparatuses and methods for using the same where the GJ tube apparatuses having a plurality of tubes forming lumens within the apparatus and including a guidance tube having a closed end which is exposed by cutting off a portion of the GJ tube apparatus and which allows for insertion of a guide wire therethrough to assist in the placement of a new GJ tube such as when the existing tube becomes clogged or blocked.