Tissue handling system with reduced operator exposure

• US 10,172,594 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2017
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular Incorporated (Becton, Dickinson & Co)
• Original Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular Incorporated (Becton, Dickinson & Co)
• Inventors: Videbaek, Karsten, Staal, Lasse G., Gundberg, Tomas, Danborg, Lasse
• Primary Examiner(s): HINDENBURG, MAX F
• Application Number:
  US15/407,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20170181732A1
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0096 Casings for storing test samples A61B10/0038 and A61B10/0045 take precedence; preservation of living parts of the human or animal body A01N1/02; containers for retaining a material to be analysed B01L3/50; containers for enzymology or microbiology C12M1/16; swab-sampler being part of enzymology or microbiology container C12M1/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0266 means for severing sample
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0275 with sample notch, e.g. on the side of inner stylet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/0225 for taking multiple samples
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/026 Fluid interfacing between devices or objects, e.g. connectors, inlet details
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/0621 Control of the sequence of chambers filled or emptied
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/141 Preventing contamination, tampering
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/049 Valves integrated in closure
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0832 cylindrical, tube shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/087 Multiple sequential chambers
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2400/0457 passive flow or gravitation
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2400/0644 rotary valves
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/502 with fluid transport, e.g. in multi-compartment structures centrifugal-type cuvettes G01N21/07; analysis by separation into components G01N30/00; automatic analysers G01N35/00
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/523 with means for closing or opening

Abstract

A tissue handling system includes a biopsy device configured to deliver at least one tissue sample to a location outside the body of a patient. A tissue storage container is separate from the biopsy device. A tissue collecting device is configured to releasably engage the biopsy device to receive the at least one tissue sample from the biopsy device. The tissue collecting device is configured to be disengaged from the biopsy device and engaged with the tissue storage container to deliver the at least one tissue sample to the tissue storage container.

Claims

1. A tissue handling system, comprising:

a biopsy device configured to deliver at least one tissue sample to a location outside the body of a patient;

a tissue storage container separate from the biopsy device; and

a tissue collecting device configured to releasably engage the biopsy device to receive the at least one tissue sample from the biopsy device, the tissue collecting device configured to be disengaged from the biopsy device and engaged with the tissue storage container to deliver the at least one tissue sample to the tissue storage container,

wherein the biopsy device comprises a disposable unit, the disposable unit configured for operative engagement with the tissue collecting device, and

wherein the tissue collecting device is rotatably mounted to the disposable unit for stepwise rotation about a central axis, the tissue collecting device having a plurality of tissue chambers.

2. The tissue handling system of claim 1, wherein the tissue storage container is configured to receive the entire tissue collecting device after the tissue collecting device is disengaged from the disposable unit.

3. A tissue handling system, comprising:

a biopsy device configured to deliver at least one tissue sample to a location outside the body of a patient;

a tissue storage container separate from the biopsy device;

a tissue collecting device configured to releasably engage the biopsy device to receive the at least one tissue sample from the biopsy device, the tissue collecting device configured to be disengaged from the biopsy device and engaged with the tissue storage container to deliver the at least one tissue sample to the tissue storage container; and

a vessel containing a preserving agent for delivery into the tissue storage container.

4. The tissue handling system of claim 3, comprising a receptacle in selective fluid communication with the vessel, and wherein the preserving agent is released from the vessel into the receptacle when the tissue collecting device is mounted to the tissue storage container.

5. The tissue handling system of claim 3, wherein the tissue storage container has a receptacle, the preserving agent being released into the receptacle as a consequence of the connecting of the tissue collecting device to the tissue storage container.

6. A tissue handling system, comprising:

a biopsy device that includes a disposable unit having invasive components;

a tissue collecting device removably mountable to the disposable unit; and

a tissue storage container separate from the biopsy device and the tissue collecting device, the tissue storage container configured to removably mount the tissue collecting device after the tissue collecting device is removed from the biopsy device,

wherein the tissue collecting device has a collecting unit and an interface lid connected to the collecting unit, the interface lid configured to be sequentially connected to each of the biopsy device and the tissue storage container, the collecting unit having at least one chamber configured to receive a tissue sample from the biopsy device and configured to deliver the tissue sample to the tissue storage container.

7. A method of using a tissue handling system, comprising:

providing a biopsy device configured to deliver at least one tissue sample to a location outside the body of a patient;

providing a tissue storage container separate from the biopsy device;

providing a tissue collecting device configured to releasably engage each of the biopsy device and the tissue storage container;

engaging the tissue collecting device with the biopsy device to receive the at least one tissue sample from the biopsy device;

disengaging the tissue collecting device from the biopsy device; and

engaging the tissue collecting device with the tissue storage container to deliver the at least one tissue sample to the tissue storage container.

8. The method of claim 7, comprising providing the biopsy device with a disposable unit, the disposable unit configured for operative engagement with the tissue collecting device.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising rotatably mounting the tissue collecting device to the disposable unit for stepwise rotation about a central axis, the tissue collecting device having a plurality of tissue chambers.

10. The method of claim 9, comprising receiving the entire tissue collecting device in the tissue storage container after the tissue collecting device is disengaged from the disposable unit.

11. The method of claim 7, comprising:

providing a vessel containing a preserving agent; and

delivering the preserving agent into the tissue storage container.

12. The method of claim 7, comprising:

providing the tissue storage container with a vessel containing a preserving agent and a receptacle in selective fluid communication with the vessel; and

releasing the preserving agent from the vessel into the receptacle when the tissue collecting device is mounted to the tissue storage container.

13. The method of claim 7, comprising:

providing the tissue storage container with a receptacle; and

releasing a preserving agent into the receptacle as a consequence of the connecting of the tissue collecting device to the tissue storage container.