Vascular isolation systems and methods
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorWilliam S. Krimsky
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Abstract
A system and method enabling the receipt of image data of a patient, identification of one or more locations within the image data depicting symptoms of lung disease, analyzing airways and vasculature proximate the identified locations, planning a pathway to the one or more locations, navigating an extended working channel to one of the locations, identifying the direction of blood flow within vasculature serving the location, positioning a catheter proximate the location, and temporarily isolating a portion of the identified vasculature serving the location depicting symptoms of lung disease.
Claims20
A method of performing a surgical procedure, comprising:
- receiving image data of a patient's lungs;
- identifying an area of interest within the received image data;
- determining a direction of blood flow within a vascular structure within the patient's lungs serving the area of interest via a tool positioned at the area of interest;
- monitoring a clinical effect of temporarily obstructing the flow of blood within the vascular structure and isolating a portion of the patient's circulatory system serving the lungs;
- and
- comparing the monitored clinical effect to a predicted clinical effect of temporarily obstructing the flow of blood within the vascular structure and isolating a portion of the patient's circulatory system serving the lungs.
A method of performing a surgical procedure, comprising:
- storing software on a memory associated with a computer, which when executed causes a processor to:
- acquire an image of a patient's lungs;
- identify an area of interest on the acquired image;
- identify a similar patient from a database stored within the memory;
- and
- predict a clinical effect of isolating a portion of the circulatory system within the patient's lungs serving the area of interest;
- and
- monitoring a clinical effect of isolating the portion of the circulatory system within the patient's lungs serving the area of interest.
A method of performing a surgical procedure, comprising:
- determining a direction of blood flow within vascular structure within a patient's lungs serving an area of interest via a tool positioned at the area of interest;
- predicting a clinical effect of temporarily obstructing the flow of blood within the vascular structure and isolating a portion of the patient's circulatory system serving the area of interest;
- and
- monitoring the clinical effect of temporarily obstructing the flow of blood within the vascular structure and isolating the portion of the patient's circulatory system serving the area of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.