Fluid handling assembly and related tube set and method for use in surgical procedures
AssigneeMisonix, Incorporated
InventorsTimothy John Payne, Scott Lavoy Conway, Robert Paul Mayercheck
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Abstract
A fluid handling system for a surgical procedure includes a console and a tubing set. The console exhibits a peristaltic pump, a pinch valve, one above the other. Two recessed seats are located to the left and right sides of the pump and valve. The tubing set includes an irrigation tube and an aspiration tube each coupled to a pair of magnetic disks disposable in respective ones of the recessed seats. Upon such disposition, the irrigation tube is disposable in operative engagement with the peristaltic pump and the aspiration tube is insertable into a slot of the pinch valve.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing having a panel;
- a peristaltic pump mounted to the housing and extending outwardly from said panel;
- a pinch valve mounted to the housing, the peristaltic pump and the pinch valve being spaced along a line from one another;
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- a first seat and a second seat on the panel on opposite sides of the line, the first seat having a first geometric configuration and the second seat having a second geometric configuration different from the first geometric configuration, the first seat configured to receive a first attachment element and the second seat configured to receive a second attachment element such that such that an irrigation tube and an aspiration tube extending between the first and second attachment elements are positioned to engage with the peristaltic pump and the pinch valve, respectively.
A fluid handling system for a surgical treatment, comprising:
- an irrigation tube;
- an aspiration tube;
- a first attachment element having a first geometry seatable in a first seat of a panel of a console;
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- a second attachment element having a second geometry seatable in a second seat of the panel of the console, the second geometry being different from the first geometry,
- the irrigation tube and the aspiration tube each being coupled to both the first attachment element and the second attachment element so that the irrigation tube and the aspiration tube extend between the first attachment element and the second attachment element upon seating of the first attachment element in the first seat and seating of the second attachment element in the second seat,
- the irrigation tube being disposable in operative engagement with a peristaltic pump, and the aspiration tube being insertable into a pinch valve, upon seating of the first attachment element in the first seat and seating of the second attachment element in the second seat.
A tubing set for carrying fluids in a surgical procedure, comprising:
- a first tube;
- a second tube;
- a first attachment element provided on a first side with a first geometric configuration and configured on a second side opposite the first side to enable manual manipulation of the first attachment element to seat the first attachment element in a first seat on a panel of a console;
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- a second attachment element provided on a respective first side with second geometric configuration and configured on a respective second side opposite the respective first side to enable manual manipulation of the second attachment element to seat the second attachment element in a second seat on the panel of the console, the first tube and the second tube each being coupled to both the first attachment element and the second attachment element so that the first tube and the second tube extend in spaced relation to one another between the first attachment element and the second attachment element when the first attachment element and the second attachment element are spaced from one another, the first geometric configuration and the second geometric configuration being different from one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.