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 system comprising:
- a memory storing one or more images of a patient and one or more software applications;
- a display presenting the one or more images of a patient;
- a user interface presented on the display in combination with the displayed one or more images of a patient enabling the identification of one or more image locations depicting symptoms of lung disease and the identification of vascular structure within a patient's lungs serving the identified image locations;
- an extended working channel navigable to one or more actual locations within a patient corresponding to the one or more image locations;
- a processor, executing one of the one or more software applications to identify the direction of blood flow within the identified vascular structure of a patient's lungs;
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- a catheter, extendible through the extended working channel to temporarily isolate a portion of the identified vascular structure within a patient serving the one or more image locations depicting symptoms of lung disease.
A method of performing a surgical procedure, comprising:
- acquiring an image of a patient's lungs;
- identifying an area of interest on the acquired image;
- navigating a first tool to the area of interest, the first tool capable of determining the direction of blood flow within vascular structure within a patient's lungs serving the area of interest;
- identifying the direction of flow within the vascular structure within a patient's lungs serving the area of interest;
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- temporarily obstructing the flow of blood within the vascular structure of a patient's lungs serving the area of interest, thereby isolating a portion of the circulatory system serving the lungs.
A method of performing a surgical procedure, comprising:
- acquiring an image of a patient's lungs;
- identifying an area of interest on the acquired image;
- identifying a similar patient from a database stored within a memory coupled to a computer, the memory capable of being executed by a processor;
- predicting the clinical effects of isolating a portion of the circulatory system within a patient's lungs serving the area of interest;
- isolating the portion of the circulatory system within a patient's lungs serving the area of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.