Portal-establishing devices and methods thereof for establishing portals in procedural barriers

A method of a portal-establishing device, comprising:

• breaching a procedural barrier between a single-use medical device on a clinician-facing side of the procedural barrier and a second medical device on a patient-facing side of the procedural barrier with a breaching mechanism of the portal-establishing device;
• and
• placing a portal over a breach in the procedural barrier, the portal including a portal barrier in a protruding-end portion thereof, the portal barrier being a tear-resistant, transparent sheet of polymeric material for establishing an electrical connection thereacross between the single-use medical device and the second medical device without propagating any hole or tear made in the tear-resistant, transparent sheet to effectuate the electrical connection, thereby enabling a functional connection between the single-use medical device and the second medical device through the portal of the portal-establishing device.

A procedural barrier, comprising:

• a portal integrated into the procedural barrier, the portal including a portal barrier in a protruding-end portion thereof configured to enable functional connections across the procedural barrier between a single-use medical device on a clinician-facing side of the procedural barrier and a second medical device on a patient-facing side of the procedural barrier, and the portal barrier being a tear-resistant, transparent sheet of polymeric material for establishing an electrical connection thereacross for one of the functional connections between the single-use medical device and the second medical device without propagating any hole or tear made in the tear-resistant transparent sheet to effectuate the electrical connection.