Patent classifications
A61M2210/0612
Device with a peristaltic pump unit which can be coupled
A device for supplying and/or aspirating a fluid substance to or from a human or animal body is provided, which device has a drive unit with a drive, an attachment part, and coupling element. The attachment part has a peristaltic pump unit with a pump head having roller elements which are movable freely and independently of one another and serve for rolling on a hose. The coupling element serves to transmit a movement from the drive to the pump head. The pump head has a decoupled state in which the roller elements apply no or a comparatively low mechanical pressure to the hose, and a coupled state in which the roller elements are pressed by the coupling element against the hose with a comparatively high mechanical pressure.
OCULAR INJECTOR AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING SUPRACHOROIDAL SPACE OF THE EYE
An ocular medical injector is provided for drug delivery. A method includes inserting a puncture member of the medical injector into the eye until the puncture member reaches the SCS. The puncture member defines a lumen therethrough. With the puncture member disposed within the SCS, a flexible cannula is advanced distally through the lumen of the puncture member, beyond the distal end portion of the puncture member and along the SCS towards a posterior region of the eye. The flexible cannula has an atraumatic distal tip and defines a lumen therethrough. With the distal tip of the flexible cannula disposed within the SCS beyond a distal end portion of the puncture member, a therapeutic substance is administered to the SCS.
METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR MAINTAINING FUNCTIONING DRAINAGE BLEBS ASSOCIATED WITH FOREIGN BODIES
Methods and systems for applying beta radiation to a treatment area, such as a target area of a bleb, in association with and/or in combination with glaucoma surgery. The methods and systems herein may help achieve and/or maintain a healthy intraocular pressure, maintain functioning blebs and/or drainage holes arising from glaucoma drainage procedures or surgeries, help avoid scar formation or wound reversion, inhibit or reduce fibrogenesis and/or inflammation in the blebs or surrounding areas, etc.
Inducement, verification and optimization of neural entrainment through biofeedback, data analysis and combinations of adaptable stimulus delivery
Methods, systems and apparatus for inducing and verifying the level of neural entrainment at any target frequency, through a combination of biofeedback mechanisms, data analysis, and modulation of synergistic combinations of adaptable stimuli.
METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLUID PUMP, AND OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL SYSTEM WITH SAME
A cartridge for a panel of an ophthalmic surgical system for treating an eye is configured for insertion in a cartridge accommodation region of the panel and has at least one fluid pump for conveying a treatment fluid, the fluid pump has a pump chamber and a drive chamber separated from the pump chamber with a partition element that is at least regionally deflectable, wherein a drive fluid is feedable to the drive chamber and the treatment fluid is feedable to the pump chamber. The partition element has at least one plate element made of an at least electrically conductive or at least ferromagnetic material, said plate element also being deflected in the case of a deflection of at least one region of the partition element. Further, a panel and an ophthalmic surgical system are provided.
CASSETTE FOR A CONSOLE OF AN OPHTHALMOSURGICAL SYSTEM, AND OPHTHALMOSURGICAL SYSTEM
A cassette for a console of an ophthalmosurgical system for treating an eye is configured for insertion into a cassette receiving region of the console and has a fluid pump configured to deliver a treatment fluid, a tube for attachment to a handpiece, and a connection unit secured against detachment, of a cassette-side end of the tube to a cassette housing of the cassette. The connection unit includes an attachment stub arranged on the cassette housing and has a through opening for the treatment fluid, and a plug-in connector arranged on the cassette-side end of the tube and likewise has a through opening for the treatment fluid, with the plug-in connector, when it is connected to the attachment stub, being held in a fluid-tight manner with respect to the attachment stub and so as to be able to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the through opening.
TUBE FOR A MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM
A tube for a medical treatment system has a first channel for feeding an irrigation fluid from a console of the system to a medical treatment instrument of the system and a second channel for discharging an aspiration fluid from the instrument to the console. The first and the second channels are arranged in parallel. The first channel has a first wall and the second channel has a second wall. A second material of the second wall has a greater hardness than a first material of the first wall. The tube is formed from two individual tube elements for the channels. The tube elements are welded or adhesively bonded in a connection region. The difference between the hardness of the first material and the hardness of the second material is at least 10 ShA and at most 15 ShA.
OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL CARTRIDGE
An ophthalmic surgical cartridge has a fluid pump with a pump chamber and a drive chamber which are separated by a fluid-tight and ion-tight partition element. A body fluid is suppliable to the pump chamber and a drive fluid is suppliable to the drive chamber. A deformation or change in position of a portion of the partition element is achievable with the drive fluid which increases the second volume in size and decreases the first volume in size to drain the body fluid from the pump chamber. The drive chamber has a front side wall with an edge zone in which only a single passage opening is provided, through which the drive fluid is suppliable into the drive chamber to fill the drive chamber with the drive fluid, and through which said drive fluid can be drained from the drive chamber to remove the drive fluid from the drive chamber.
METHOD FOR OPERATING A FLUID PUMP, AND OPHTHALMOSURGICAL SYSTEM WITH SAME
A method for operating a fluid pump of an ophthalmosurgical system for conveying a treatment fluid is provided. The fluid pump has a pump chamber and a drive chamber separated from the latter with an elastic partition element and which is acted upon by a drive fluid. A position of the partition element is detected. The method includes subjecting the drive fluid to a first drive pressure, detecting a treatment fluid pressure present in the first position of the partition element, subjecting the drive fluid to a further drive pressure, at which the partition element adopts a further position, detecting the at least one further position of the partition element, and a further treatment fluid pressure present in this further position, and taking into account the treatment fluid pressures and drive pressures present in the respective positions account in the operation of the fluid pump.
CONTROLLING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE DURING PHACOEMULSIFICATION PROCEDURE
A system includes (i) a solenoid valve, positioned between a handle of a probe, and an aspiration line coupled with the handle for aspirating fluids from the probe, the solenoid valve includes at least a solenoid coil and a plunger movable by the solenoid coil, (ii) a sensor, positioned between the handle and the aspiration line and configured to produce a signal indicative of a fluid metric in the aspiration line, and (iii) a controller, configured to identify, based on the signal, a vacuum surge in the aspiration line, and, in response to identifying the vacuum surge, to apply at least one current to the solenoid coil to selectively move the plunger between a first position and a second position, and to selectively maintain the plunger in the first position and the second position.