Therapeutic cell applicator instrument with modular tips

US8491526B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Michael D. Cronin · Cincinnati, US
• Jerome R. Morgan · Cincinnati, US
• Patrick D. Dugan · Madeira, US
• Rebecca J. Mollere · Loveland, US
• John B. Schulte · Sharonville, US
• David A. Witt · Maineville, US
• Joseph P. Schowalter · South Lebanon, US
• Eugene L. Timperman · Cincinnati, US
• Prasanna Malaviya · Huangpu District, CN
• Shailendra K. Parihar · Mason, US
• Shelby L. Cook Kornbluth · Foxborough, US
• Richard W. Timm · Cincinnati, US
• Donna L. Korvick · Maineville, US
• James A. Woodard, Jr. · Mason, US
• Peter K. Shires · Robbinsville, US
• Barbara L. Mattson · Cincinnati, US
• Matthew C. Miller · Cincinnati, US
• Frederick E. Shelton, IV · Hillsboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 13, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2210/1053
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surgical device comprises a housing, a bioprocessing module, an end effector, and a pumping device. The bioprocessing module comprises media reservoirs, fluid conduits in communication with the reservoirs, and a port through which media is expelled. The end effector is configured for insertion into a lumen and delivering a tissue repair composition into that lumen. The end effector has at least one fluid conduit extending therethrough and at least one orifice in communication with the fluid conduit. The fluid conduit in the first end effector is in fluid communication with the port on the bioprocessing module. The pumping device is operable to urge a tissue repair composition comprising at least a portion of the contents of the media reservoirs through the fluid conduit of the first end effector such that the tissue repair composition is expelled from the at least one orifice.