Method and apparatus for managing multiple guidewires

• US 6,746,466 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2001
• Issued: 06/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Scimed Life Systems Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Eidenschink, Tracee E. J., Mattison, Richard C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): ODLAND, KATHRYN P
• Application Number:
  US09/862,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20020177869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,113 Days
• Field of Search: 606/194, 606/195, 604/164.13, 604/165.01, 604/103.04
• US Class Current: 606/194
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/09125 Device for locking a guide wire in a fixed position with respect to the catheter or the human body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/1045 for treating bifurcations, e.g. balloons in y-configuration, separate balloons or special features of the catheter for treating bifurcations
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0113 Mechanical advancing means, e.g. catheter dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0127 Magnetic means; Magnetic markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/09041 Mechanisms for insertion of guide wires

Abstract

A wire station is disclosed for securing and managing multiple wire members used in a catheter system. The wire management system includes a station for securing the proximal portion of two wire members in a spatially separate arrangement. The wire station additionally provides a physician with the flexibility of either directly attaching the wire station to the catheter system directly, or positioning the wire station at a remote location.

Claims

1. A wire station for medical procedures, the wire station comprising:

at least one wire management system that separates at least two guidewire members disposed upon the wire station, the wire management system engaged to a catheter, the wire management system having a first and a second position, in the first position each guidewire member being moveable along a single axis, in the second position at least one of the at least two guidewire members being fixedly engaged to the wire management system; and

a base platform having a top planar surface and a bottom planar surface, wherein the at least one wire management system is disposed on the top planar surface.

2. The wire station of claim 1, wherein the base platform further includes a clasping portion of the base platform reversibly attachable to a proximal portion of the catheter.

3. The wire station of claim 2, wherein the clasping portion of the base platform is reversibly attachable to a manifold port of the catheter.

4. The wire station of claim 1, wherein a weighted bag is attached to the bottom planar surface of the base platform, the weighted bag comprising a bag filled at least in part with a conformable material.

5. The wire station of claim 4, wherein the bag comprises a frictional material.

6. The wire station of claim 5, wherein the bag is latex.

7. The wire station of claim 4, wherein the comfortable weighted material is a plurality of polymer beads.

8. The wire station of claim 4, wherein the conformable weighted material is a gel.

9. The wire station of claim 1, wherein the wire management system is a clothespin-type wire management system.

10. The wire station of claim 1, wherein the wire management system is a cullet-type wire management system.

11. The wire station of claim 1, wherein the wire management system is a magnetic wire management system.

12. The wire station of claim 1, wherein the wire management system is a cam-type wire management system.

13. The wire station of claim 1, wherein the wire management system is a partial slit wire management system.

14. The catheter system of claim 4, wherein the conformable weighted material is sand.