Electrotherapeutic systems, devices, and methods
AssigneeCook Medical Technologies LLC
InventorsShaun Davis Gittard, John Crowder Sigmon, Jr.
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Abstract
Electrotherapeutic systems, devices, and methods are described. In one embodiment, a portion of a hepatic branch of a vagus nerve in a liver is stimulated with a lead implanted in the liver. In another embodiment, a stimulation member is delivered to a location in the gastrointestinal tract and implanted in a target area endoscopically and under ultrasound visualization. In another embodiment, a stimulation device is magnetically coupled to a stimulation member in order to electrically couple stimulation generation circuitry with a lead implanted in a target area.
Claims16
A method of stimulation, the method comprising:
- endoscopically delivering a distal portion of a delivery and deployment device to a location of a gastrointestinal tract of a patient;
- with the delivery and deployment device, distally advancing a lead of a stimulation member from the gastrointestinal tract location to a target area within the patient, wherein the lead is implanted in the target area after being moved to the target area;
- activating an ultrasound transducer to generate an ultrasound image of at least one of the lead being moved from the gastrointestinal tract location to the target area or the lead implanted in the target area;
- coupling a stimulation device connector of a stimulation device to a stimulation member connector of the stimulation member outside of the patient, wherein stimulation generation circuitry of the stimulation device is electrically coupled to the lead of the stimulation member when the stimulation device connector is coupled to the stimulation member connector, and wherein the stimulation member comprises a coupling wire that couples the lead to the stimulation member connector;
- delivering the stimulation device to the location in the gastrointestinal tract of the patient with the stimulation device connector coupled to the stimulation member connector;
- and
- recoiling, with a recoil device, an excess portion of the coupling wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.