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US 2019/0053939 A1Published application
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 medical ice slurry production system comprising:
- a disposable cartridge holding a non-frozen, sterile medical slurry composition;
- a housing supporting the disposable cartridge, the housing including an actuator;
- a cooling device operable with the housing to cool the non-frozen slurry composition held in the disposable cartridge to a temperature sufficient to form ice crystals in the disposable cartridge;
- an agitator operable with the actuator of the housing to agitate the medical slurry composition such that the ice crystals are reduced to a size sufficient to allow the medical slurry composition including the reduced ice crystals to be delivered to a patient through an end of a needle;
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- an access port structured and arranged to allow the medical slurry composition including the reduced ice crystals to be withdrawn or injected from the disposable cartridge, while maintaining the sterility of the medical slurry composition including the reduced ice crystals.
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A medical ice slurry production system comprising:
- a disposable cartridge holding a non-frozen, sterile, medical slurry composition, the disposable cartridge including an access port;
- a housing supporting the disposable cartridge, the housing including an actuator;
- a cooling device operable with the housing to cool the non-frozen slurry composition held in the disposable cartridge to a temperature sufficient to form ice crystals in the disposable cartridge;
- an agitator operable with the actuator of the housing to agitate the medical slurry composition such that the ice crystals are reduced to a size sufficient to allow the medical slurry composition including the reduced ice crystals to be delivered to a patient through an end of a needle;
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- a pump operable to pump the medical slurry composition including the reduced ice crystals out of the access port of the disposable cartridge through a disposable delivery tube, while maintaining the sterility of the medical slurry composition including the reduce ice crystals.
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A medical ice slurry production method comprising:
- placing, in a housing, a disposable cartridge holding a non-frozen, sterile medical slurry composition;
- while placed in the housing, cooling the disposable cartridge to a temperature sufficient to form ice crystals in the disposable cartridge, and
- agitating the medical slurry composition held in the disposable cartridge such that the ice crystals inside the disposable cartridge are reduced to a size sufficient to allow the medical slurry composition including the reduced ice crystals to be delivered to a patient through an end of a needle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.