Two-part package for medical implant

• US 9,393,094 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2012
• Issued: 07/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Salahieh, Amr, Saul, Tom, Geshlider, Robert, Johnson, Andrea, Morejohn, Dwight, Hildebrand, Daniel, Dueri, Jean-Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Ackun, Jacob K
• Application Number:
  US13/367,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20120132547A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,624 Days
• Field of Search: 206/438, 206/63.5, 206/363, 206/370
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0095 Packages or dispensers for prostheses or other implants for intraocular lenses A61F2/1691; for dental surgery A61C19/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2427 Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/9517 handle assemblies therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/04 Packaging single articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 55/16 by irradiation
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/04 Partitions
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 41/04 Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/22 in moist conditions or immersed in liquids

Abstract

The invention provides a two-part package and method of use for a pre-attached medical implant and delivery tool system. The package includes a wet compartment and a dry compartment and allows a pre-attached implant and delivery tool system to be at least partially stored immersed in a fluid in the wet compartment and at least partially stored in the dry compartment. In one embodiment the implant comprises a replacement heart valve, and the heart valve is stored inside the wet compartment while the heart valve delivery tool remains dry in the dry compartment.

Claims

1. A method of unpacking a medical implant and delivery tool comprising:

receiving an implant connected to a delivery tool wherein the implant is at least partially stored in a wet compartment;

removing fluid from the wet compartment;

altering the configuration of the implant from a first expanded configuration to a second collapsed configuration; and

removing the implant from the wet compartment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving an implant connected to a delivery tool wherein the implant is at least partially stored in a wet compartment further comprises receiving an implant connected to a delivery tool wherein the delivery tool is at least partially stored in a dry compartment.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising removing the delivery tool from the dry compartment.

4. The method of unpacking of claim 1 wherein the implant is at least partially contained within a sheath in the second collapsed configuration and is not contained within the sheath in the first expanded configuration.

5. The method of unpacking of claim 1 further comprising washing/rinsing the implant in the wet compartment after removing fluid from the wet compartment.