System with a reservoir for perfusion management

• US 8,361,056 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2011
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gearbox LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shumate, Victoria P
• Application Number:
  US12/930,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20110208120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 604/93.01, 604/164.01, 604/187, 604194-196, 604/239, 604/264, 604/272
• US Class Current: 604/528
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1492 having a flexible, catheter-like structure, e.g. for heart ablation A61B18/1477 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/18 by applying electromagnetic radiation, e.g. microwaves radiation therapy A61N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/24 with a catheter A61B18/26, A61B18/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/028 Microscale sensors, e.g. electromechanical sensors [MEMS]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0031 Implanted circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/076 Permanent implantations telemetry using implanted circuitry A61B5/0031; implanted stimulators for therapy A61N1/3605, A61N1/362, A61N1/372
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6876 Blood vessel
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7232 involving compression of the physiological signal, e.g. to extend the signal recording period
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/77 Suction-irrigation systems aspiration tips supplying fluids A61M1/85; specific for negative pressure wound therapy A61M1/92; combined with tracheal tubes A61M16/0463
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/05 combined with other kinds of therapy
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/01 Remote controllers for specific apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2209/084 Supporting bases, stands for equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14276 specially adapted for implantation
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/16827 : controlling delivery of multiple fluids, e.g. sequencing, mixing or via separate flow-paths infusion of multiple fluids without using a controller A61M5/1407
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 : using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00

Abstract

A system for perfusion management that monitors, maintains, diagnoses, or treats perfusion deficiencies.

Claims

1. A system for perfusion management comprising:

one or more conduits comprising a plurality of retractable segments configured to telescopically extend;

circuitry configured for operating one or more actuators for delivering one or more receivables via the one or more conduits;

a sensor array distributed along the one or more conduits; and

circuitry configured for obtaining data using at least one sensor of the sensor array, the at least one sensor positioned at one or more controllably openable and closeable portholes of the one or more conduits.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

include one or more flexible conduits.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

include one or more guidable and/or movable conduits.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

include at least one of programmably controllable, guidable, or positionable conduits.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

include at least one of wirelessly controllable, guidable, or positionable conduits.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

include one or more articulatable conduits.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

including include one or more stent portions.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more conduits

include one or more diameter varying conduits.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more receivables are delivered from one or more storage cavities via the one or more conduits.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more receivables

include one or more fluid receivables.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more receivables

are delivered from one or more mixing chambers via the one or more conduits.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more receivables

are delivered from one or more remote sources via the one or more conduits.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more receivables are delivered via the one or more conduits at one or more controlled rates.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor of a sensor array distributed along the one or more conduits

obtains data including one or more variable gradient maps using at least one sensor positioned at one or more controllably openable and closable portholes of the one or more conduits.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured for receiving and/or transmitting data.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured for wirelessly receiving and/or transmitting data.

17. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured to operate one or more actuators for performing one or more operations using one or more operative tools.

18. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured to operate the one or more actuators for performing one or more operations using one or more sources of pressure.

19. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured to operate the one or more actuators for performing one or more operations using one or more chargeable polymers.

20. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

circuitry configured to operate the one or more actuators for performing one or more operations using electric charge and/or radiation.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is implantable.