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US 10,206,745 B2Granted
Catheter movement control
AssigneeThe Spectranetics Corporation
InventorsBrandon Thomas Hendrick, Blaine Andrew Schneider
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Abstract
An endovascular device monitoring system is provided that determines, based on movement of the endovascular device past a selected reference location, at least one of a movement rate of a endovascular device and position of a distal end of a endovascular device in a body of a patient.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a sheath;
- a vascular device configured to move relative to the sheath, and wherein at least one of the sheath and the vascular device comprises a movement sensor configured to sense relative movement of the vascular device and the sheath;
- and
- a controller comprising a non-transient, tangible computer readable medium including logic, whereupon execution of the logic, the controller, based on relative movement sensed by the movement sensor:
- (A) operates in an assisted mode wherein the controller is configured to regulate one or more operational parameters of the vascular device, the assisted mode including:
- (A1) determining in a first instance a first position of the vascular device relative to the sheath and whether the first position is acceptable or unacceptable based on at least one predetermined threshold;
- and
- (A2) in response to a determination in (A1), the controller controlling an operational parameter of the one or more operational parameters;
- (B) operates in an unassisted mode wherein the controller is not configured to regulate the one or more operational parameters, the unassisted mode including:
- (B1) determining in a second instance a second position of the vascular device relative to the sheath and whether the second position is acceptable based on the at least one predetermined threshold;
- and;
- (B2) in response to an unacceptable determination in (B1), the controller being unable to control the operational parameter.
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A system comprising:
- a sheath;
- a vascular device configured to move relative to the sheath, and wherein at least one of the sheath and the vascular device comprises a movement sensor configured to sense relative movement of the vascular device and the sheath;
- and
- a controller comprising a non-transient, tangible computer readable medium including logic, whereupon execution of the logic, the controller, based on relative movement sensed by the movement sensor:
- (A) operates in an assisted mode wherein the controller is configured to regulate one or more operational parameters of the vascular device, the assisted mode including:
- (A1) determining in a first instance a first movement rate of the vascular device relative to the sheath and whether the first movement rate is acceptable or unacceptable based on at least one predetermined threshold;
- and
- (A2) in response to a determination in (A1), the controller controlling an operational parameter of the one or more operational parameters;
- (B) operates in an unassisted mode wherein the controller is not configured to regulate one or more operational parameters of the vascular device, the unassisted mode including:
- (B1) determining in a second instance a second movement rate of the vascular device relative to the sheath and whether the second movement rate is acceptable based on the at least one predetermined threshold;
- and;
- (B2) in response to an unacceptable determination in (B1), the controller only monitoring the operational parameter without controlling the operational parameter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.