Light delivery system with a fiber optic disposable for preventing, reducing and/or eliminating infections during institutional or in-home use

An EMR delivery system for delivering EMR at wavelengths, intensities, exposures, and durations to locations inside and/or outside a patient's body in, on, and surrounding a tubular structure having a lumen and comprising a tube, a catheter, and/or a catheter extension, to prevent, reduce, and/or eliminate infectious agents in, on, or surrounding the tubular structure and/or to enhance healthy cell growth, the EMR delivery system being connected to a power supply and comprising:

• a CPU that controls features provided by the smart light engine box, the CPU being connected to the power supply and being at least one of pre-programmed and programmable,
• at least one smart light engine box for connection to the power supply and for generating therapeutic EMR, each smart light engine box comprising:
• at least one laser assembly disposed within the light engine box that receives power from the power supply and generates a non-ultraviolet, therapeutic EMR having an intensity comprising a range of radiant exposures from 0.1 J/cm2 to 5 kJ/cm2, and a range of powers from 0.005 mW to 5 W, and a power density range from 1 mW/cm2 and 2 W/cm2, such intensity being sufficient to produce a therapeutic effect of at least one of inactivating one or more infectious agents and enhancing healthy cell growth;
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• at least one cable adapter, each cable adapter being connected to one laser assembly via an SMA optical fiber connector;
• an umbilical light transmission cable having a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end being connected with the cable adapter, the cable adapter for receiving therapeutic EMR from the laser assembly and facilitating the propagation of the therapeutic EMR from the laser assembly to and through the umbilical light transmission cable to the distal end of the umbilical light transmission cable for delivery to the tubular structure, the umbilical light transmission cable comprising at least one transmission wire to facilitate the transmission of at least one of data and electricity;
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• a fiber optic disposable, the fiber optic disposable having an elongate structure, a retracted mode, and a fiber-advanced mode and comprises a fiber optic, a proximal end for connection with the distal end of the umbilical light transmission cable, a distal end for advancing into the lumen of the tubular structure, the fiber optic is maintained in a sterile environment when the fiber optic disposable is in the retracted mode, when the fiber optic is advanced into the lumen of the tubular structure the fiber optic disposable is in the fiber-advanced mode, the fiber optic being conducive to the axial propagation of the therapeutic EMR relative to the tubular structure when in the fiber-advanced mode, the fiber optic further comprises at least one radial emission portion disposed between proximal end of the fiber optic and a distal end of the fiber optic.

An EMR delivery fiber optic disposable for delivering EMR at wavelengths, intensities, exposures, and durations to locations inside and/or outside a patient's body in, on, and surrounding a tubular structure having a lumen to prevent, reduce, and/or eliminate infectious agents in, on, or surrounding the tubular structure, the EMR delivery fiber optic disposable being connected to an EMR delivery system connected to a power supply, the EMR delivery system comprising a CPU that controls features of the EMR delivery system, at least one laser assembly that receives power from the power supply and generates a non-ultraviolet, therapeutic EMR having an intensity sufficient to produce a therapeutic effect of at least one of inactivating one or more infectious agents and enhancing healthy cell growth, a light transmission cable having a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end being connected the laser assembly for receiving therapeutic EMR from the laser assembly and facilitating the propagation of the therapeutic EMR from the laser assembly to and through the light transmission cable to the distal end of the light transmission cable, the EMR delivery fiber optic disposable comprising:

• a fiber optic disposable, the fiber optic disposable having an elongate structure, a retracted mode, and a fiber-advanced mode and comprises a fiber optic, a proximal end for connection to the distal end of the light transmission cable, a distal end for advancing into the lumen of the tubular structure, the fiber optic is maintained in a sterile environment when the fiber optic disposable is in the retracted mode, when the fiber optic is advanced into the lumen of the tubular structure the fiber optic disposable is in the fiber-advanced mode, the fiber optic being conducive to the axial propagation of the therapeutic EMR relative to the tubular structure, the fiber optic further comprises at least one radial emission portion disposed between the proximal end of the fiber optic and a distal end of the fiber optic.