Vibrating, magnetically guidable catheter with magnetic powder commingled with resin, extruded as an integral part the catheter

• US 20050245846A1
• Filed: 05/03/2004
• Published: 11/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Don Eward Casey
• Original Assignee: Don Eward Casey
• Inventors: Casey, Don Eward
• Application Number:
  US10/837,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20050245846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/585
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0127 Magnetic means; Magnetic markers

Abstract

A catheter that is produced in which magnetic powder is commingled and becomes an integral part of the catheter, which makes it not only guidable within the body by an external device, but can be made to vibrate at various speeds (cycles per second) and at varying intensities (voltages) to not only prevent its adhesion to vascular walls, but to render plaque into a viscous state, for easy suctioning from the body.

Claims

1. A catheter for use in a body, comprising

a catheter having

a distal end,

and a middle section contiguously disposed between and joining said distal end, said proximal end;

integrated magnetic material, said magnetic material permeating said distal end, said proximal end, and middle section of the catheter;

an external guiding means, comprising a source of a controlled and directed magnetic field, said controlled and directed magnetic field being directed towards said catheter for manipulating the position and motion of said catheter;

said integrated magnetic material being responsive to and cooperating with said external magnetic guiding means;

means for observing and reporting the position of the catheter within the body;

and, operator means employing said observing and reporting means, for directing and controlling the position and motion of the catheter in the body.

2. The catheter system as described in claim 1, wherein said permeating magnetic material is disposed in uniform density across said distal end, said middle section, and said proximal end.

3. The catheter system as described in claim 1, wherein said permeating magnetic material is disposed in non-uniform density across said distal end, said middle section, and said proximal end.

4. A catheter system as described in claim 1 wherein said distal end further comprises a means for holding a vascular stent at said distal end, and for preventing movement of the vascular stent from said distal end and onto said middle section;

and means for expelling the vascular stent from said distal end upon command of said operator.

5. A catheter system as described in claim 1 wherein said distal end, said middle section, or said proximal end further comprise an abrading means for dislodging matter attached to a vascular wall.

6. A catheter system as described in claim 1 wherein said distal end comprises a means for scooping matter that is encountered in the vasculature.

7. A catheter system as described in claim 1 wherein said distal end further comprises a generally smoothly rounded forward surface for navigation through a vasculature.

8. A catheter system as described in claim 1 wherein said distal end, said middle section, or said proximal end further comprises means for delivering a medicine to a body area wherein said medicine comprises a solid particulate matter disposed on said distal end, said middle section, or said proximal end.

9. The catheter system as described in claim 8, wherein said permeating magnetic material is disposed in uniform density across said distal end, said middle section, and said proximal end.

10. The catheter system as described in claim 8, wherein said permeating magnetic material is disposed in non-uniform density across said distal end, said middle section, and said proximal end.

11. A catheter system as described in claim 8 wherein said distal end further comprises a means for holding a vascular stent at said distal end, and for preventing movement of the vascular stent from said distal end and onto said middle section;

and means for expelling the vascular stent from said distal end upon command of said operator.

12. A catheter system as described in claim 8 wherein said distal end, said middle section, or said proximal end further comprise an abrading means for dislodging matter attached to a vascular wall.

13. A catheter system as described in claim 12 wherein said distal end comprises a means for scooping up matter that is encountered in the vasculature.

14. A catheter system as described in claim 8 wherein said distal end further comprises a generally smoothly rounded forward surface for navigation through a vasculature.

15. A catheter system wherein the outside surface of the catheter is coated with a chemical which has a dilating effect on the vasculature.

16. A catheter system as described in claim 15 wherein the chemical coating on the outside surface of a catheter has a clotting effect on fluid seepage from the vascular walls.

17. A catheter system in which electromagnetic vibrations from a non-attached source is of sufficient intensity so as to vibrate and heat all or part of a catheter.

18. A catheter system in which the magnetic particulate is embedded in the resin of the catheter so as to be oriented with regard to its direction of orientation.