Patent classifications
A61B2018/00017
DEPILATOR
The present disclosure discloses a depilator including a head portion and a hand-held portion. The head portion includes a cold compressing portion and an illuminating portion. The illuminating portion is configured for emitting light for caring for a skin of a user. The hand-held portion includes a hair removal device, a heat conducting portion and a cool driving portion. The hair removal device emits light to the cold compressing portion. The heat conducting portion absorbs heat of the cold compressing portion. The cool driving portion drives the external cooling medium to take away the heat of the heat conducting portion. The cold compressing portion emits light to irradiate the hair follicles of the skin of the user, and uses the light to penetrate the skin to irradiate the hair follicles for hair removal. Therefore, the hair device has both functions of hair removal and skin care.
APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEQUENTIAL HEATING OF CRYO-FLUID IN CRYOABLATION SYSTEMS
A system for performing a cryoablation treatment may include at least one computing device configured to obtain temperature information at a plurality of heating locations on a cryo-fluid supply. The plurality of heating locations includes a first heating location and a second heating location. The computing device is also configured to compare a first temperature at the first heating location to an expected first temperature and to initiate a first heating cycle at the first heating location if the first temperature at the first heating location is less than the expected first temperature. The computing device also compares a second temperature at the second heating location to an expected second temperature wherein the second heating location disposed downstream of the first heating location and initiates a second heating cycle at the second heating location if the second temperature is less than the expected second temperature.
SYSTEM(S), METHOD(S) AND DEVICE(S) FOR THE PREVENTION OF ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA DURING CATHETER ABLATION
The present invention is directed to systems, devices and methods for trans-septally delivering carbon dioxide through a minimally invasive catheter to create a gaseous pocket or emphysema between the posterior wall of the left atrium and the esophagus during cardiac ablation of the left atrium. This pocket of gas expanded tissue serves to thermally insulate and separate the esophagus from the left atrium during ablation to prevent the formation of an atrial-esophageal fistula. The system comprises a control system to precisely deliver the gas to a desired location through a needle-based catheter assembly.
NASAL TISSUE TREATMENT METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE
Nasal airway reshaping is accomplished using a fractional treatment device applied externally to the nose to insert needle electrodes into nasal tissue to be reshaped. Energy is applied via the electrodes to cause at least partial coagulation of the nasal tissue within zones around each of the plurality of needle electrodes while pressure is applied internally to achieve the desired reshaping.
RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF TISSUE WITHIN A VERTEBRAL BODY
Methods and systems for modulating intraosseous nerves (e.g., nerves within bone) are provided. For example, the methods and systems described herein may be used to modulate (e.g., denervate, ablate) basivertebral nerves within vertebrae. The modulation of the basivertebral nerves may facilitate treatment of chronic back pain. The modulation may be performed by a neuromodulation device (e.g., an energy delivery device).
SMOKE MITIGATION ASSEMBLY FOR BIPOLAR PENCIL
An electrosurgical pencil includes a housing having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end adapted to connect to an energy source and the distal end adapted to receive an end effector assembly therein, the end effector assembly defining a surface area along a length thereof. An activation switch is operably associated with the housing and is configured to deliver electrosurgical energy to the end effector assembly upon actuation thereof. An air control valve is operatively coupled to the activation switch and is configured to simultaneously deliver a gas from a gas source to the surface area around the end effector upon actuation of the activation switch. One or more vents are defined in the distal end of the housing and are configured to direct the gas towards the surface area of the end effector.
ANTI-CONTAMINATION LASER SURGERY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN OPTICAL ELEMENT
An anti-contamination laser surgery device with a built-in optical element, including an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, a first unit configured to enable the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder to be telescopic, a lens moving unit, a two-dimensional laser scanning unit, a real-time monitoring unit, and a second unit configured to perform unidirectional laminar flow ventilation. A head end of the inner cylinder and a tail end of the outer cylinder are matched and connected by the first unit. The two-dimensional laser scanning unit and the real-time monitoring unit are arranged at the head end of the outer cylinder, and the lens moving unit is arranged in the inner cylinder and close to the head end of the inner cylinder. The second unit is arranged close to a tail end of the inner cylinder.
Methods for delivering energy into a target tissue of a body
An instrument and method for tissue thermotherapy including an inductive heating means to generate a vapor phase media that is used for interstitial, intraluminal, intracavity or topical tissue treatment. In one method, the vapor phase media is propagated from a probe outlet to provide a controlled vapor-to-liquid phase change in an interface with tissue to thereby apply ablative thermal energy delivery.
System(s), method(s) and device(s) for the prevention of esophageal fistula during catheter ablation
The present invention is directed to systems, devices and methods for trans-septally delivering carbon dioxide through a minimally invasive catheter to create a gaseous pocket or emphysema between the posterior wall of the left atrium and the esophagus during cardiac ablation of the left atrium. This pocket of gas expanded tissue serves to thermally insulate and separate the esophagus from the left atrium during ablation to prevent the formation of an atrial-esophageal fistula. The system comprises a control system to precisely deliver the gas to a desired location through a needle-based catheter assembly.
ABLATION SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF TISSUE
A device for ablating target tissue of a patient with an ablative fluid is provided. An elongate shaft includes a proximal portion and a distal portion, and at least one fluid delivery element is attached to the distal portion. The device can be configured to ablate the duodenal mucosa of a patient while avoiding damage to the duodenal adventitial tissue. Systems and methods of treating target tissue are also provided.