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US 12,697,247 B2Granted
Medical ice slurry production and delivery systems and methods
AssigneeThe General Hospital Corporation
InventorsLilit Garibyan, Richard Rox Anderson, William A. Farinelli, Emilia Javorsky
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems and method for medical ice slurry production. In particular, systems and methods are provided for medical ice slurry production that enable an end user to produce and deliver a sterile medical ice slurry at the point of care.
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A method for producing a sterile slurry composition, the method comprising:
- receiving a rigid disposable cartridge comprising an access port, wherein a closed environment within the rigid disposable cartridge has been pre-filled with a non-frozen sterile slurry composition;
- placing the rigid disposable cartridge within a housing, wherein the housing comprises a cooling device operable to cool the non-frozen sterile slurry composition to a temperature sufficient to form a sterile slurry composition containing a plurality of ice crystals;
- cooling the rigid disposable cartridge to a temperature sufficient to form the sterile slurry composition containing the plurality of ice crystals;
- and
- removing the rigid disposable cartridge from the housing;
- wherein the non-frozen sterile slurry composition is self-contained within the closed environment during formation of the sterile slurry composition containing the plurality of ice crystals, and
- wherein the access port is structured and arranged to allow the sterile slurry composition to be withdrawn or injected from the rigid disposable cartridge, while maintaining the sterility of the sterile slurry composition.
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A method for producing a sterile slurry composition at a point of care, the method comprising:
- receiving a rigid disposable cartridge at the point of care, the rigid disposable cartridge having been pre-filled with a non-frozen sterile slurry composition, wherein the non-frozen sterile slurry composition is self-contained within a closed environment of the rigid disposable cartridge;
- cooling the non-frozen sterile slurry composition to a temperature sufficient to form a sterile slurry composition comprising a plurality of ice crystals;
- and
- agitating the sterile slurry composition comprising the plurality of ice crystals such that the plurality of ice crystals are reduced to a size sufficient to allow the sterile slurry composition to be delivered to a patient through an end of a needle operably connected to the rigid disposable cartridge.
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A method for producing a sterile slurry composition, the method comprising:
- receiving a rigid disposable cartridge having been pre-filled with a non-frozen sterile slurry composition at a point of care, wherein an access port is defined in the rigid disposable cartridge;
- placing the rigid disposable cartridge in a housing, the housing comprising a cooling device operable to cool the non-frozen sterile slurry composition to a temperature sufficient to form a sterile slurry composition comprising a plurality of ice crystals;
- cooling the non-frozen sterile slurry composition to the temperature sufficient to form the sterile slurry composition comprising the plurality of ice crystals;
- agitating the sterile slurry composition in the rigid disposable cartridge;
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- removing the rigid disposable cartridge from the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.