Apparatus and methods are provided to position a device at adjacent tissues near a urethra to overcome the problem of urine leakage during physical movement or activity by changing a contour of a urethra. The devices may include mechanisms such as an inflatable pouch or a pillow anchored to the adjacent tissues of a urethra by an anchoring hook. The inflation of the pouch by an external fluid flexes the pouch towards a urethra and changes the contour of the urethra. The devices may also or alternatively include one or more tissue grasping T-fasteners having forward-facing and reverse-facing barbs to anchor the tissues adjacent to a urethra and bend the contour of the urethra. The device may also include actuators, clips or spring jacks having inflatable bands. The device may include a cap, one-way valves and a combination of a plug and cap to block urethral ostium to temporarily block urine flow from a bladder.

A surgical apparatus of the present disclosure includes a wound retractor having a specimen bag attached thereto. Kits of the present disclosure include the surgical apparatus and a vacuum tube. In embodiments, the vacuum tube may be introduced into a lumen of the wound retractor. A vacuum source is attached to a proximal end portion of the vacuum tube to draw a vacuum through the vacuum tube, which in turn draws a tissue specimen into the lumen of the vacuum tube through an opening in the distal end portion of the vacuum tube. The vacuum tube, possessing the tissue specimen therein, may then be removed from the wound retractor. Methods for using the surgical apparatus and/or kits of the present disclosure are also provided.

Disclosed herein is a temporary knee spacer system for the temporary replacement of a knee joint, which is designed for the interim phase of two-stage septic revisions of knee joint total endoprostheses. The knee spacer system can be used in particular with two-phase septic revisions with which two or more microbial germs are the cause of an infection of the knee joint total endoprosthesis and the surrounding tissue.

In some embodiments, a housing can define a reservoir. A lower cap can be coupled to the housing and define an outlet, and an upper cap can be coupled to the housing and can define an inlet. The upper cap can include an extending portion extending laterally a distance beyond an outermost extending portion of the lower cap relative to a central axis of the housing such that, when the lower cap and the extending portion of the upper cap contact a horizontal surface, the central axis of the housing is transverse to the surface and a sealing member is configured to sealingly engage a sealing surface of a valve seat prior to a liquid fluid level within a reservoir decreasing below a minimum threshold fluid level.

A support device to support a catheter assembly may include a platform, which may include an upper surface and a bottom surface. The support device may include an extension element coupled to the upper surface of the platform. The extension element may include a distal end, which may include a first connector configured to couple to the catheter assembly, and a proximal end, which may include a second connector. The extension element may include a valve that may be movable between a first position and a second position. In response to the valve being moved to the first position, a fluid pathway extending through the cannula and the extension element may be open and straight. In response to the valve being moved to the second position, the fluid pathway may be closed. The support device may include a cannula, which may be swaged within the extension element.

A dual lumen IV administration set includes a first lumen having an inner diameter of a first value. A second lumen is paired with the first lumen, and the second lumen has an inner diameter of a second value that is greater than the first value. A flow merger merges flow output from a distal end of the first lumen and flow output from a distal end of the second lumen to form a single flow output in an exit lumen. An injection port intersects the first lumen, thereby providing injection access to flow therethrough, prior to merging with the flow output of the second lumen.

A catheter system for draining a bodily fluid from a fluid source in a body of a subject. In one form, the catheter tube has a proximal end and a distal end. The catheter tube includes a drainage lumen that extends from a proximal end opening in the proximal end to a distal end opening in the distal end. The catheter system further includes a fluid sampling component in fluid communication with the distal end opening. In some embodiments, the catheter system includes a one-way check valve. In some embodiments, the catheter system includes a balloon positioned between one or more openings.

Embodiments disclosed herein include a positive pressure inhaler for delivery of aerosolized/vaporized medication to a patient's lungs under positive pressure and in a known volume of air, and methods of using the positive pressure inhaler for such delivery.

An externally programmable shunt valve assembly that includes a motor having a rotor that is operable in response to an externally applied magnetic field and configured to increase or decrease the working pressure of the shunt valve assembly. The motor may further include a position sensing mechanism that allows a position of the rotor, and associated pressure setting of the valve, to be determined using an external magnetic sensor. In certain examples the motor further includes a mechanical brake that is magnetically operable between a locked position and an unlocked position and which, in the locked position, prevents rotation of the rotor.

A lubrication device for lubricating a joint of a human or mammal patient, which is entirely implantable in a patient's body, comprises a reservoir for storing a lubricating fluid and a fluid connection for introducing the lubricating fluid into the joint when the device is implanted in the patient's body. Further, the fluid connection comprises a fluid connection device connecting the reservoir with the joint such that a lubricating fluid flow is established from the reservoir into the joint. The fluid connection comprises either an infusion needle adapted to be intermittently placed into the joint for injecting the lubricating fluid, or a tube adapted to be permanently placed into the joint for continuously injecting the lubricating fluid.