US 2021/0329909 A1 · ORGAN SUPPORT AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an organ supporting device and a manufacturing system thereof. The organ supporting device includes a tube with a one or more bends to create two supporting regions for an organ. The supporting regions are connected via a connecting region. The tube is supplied with temperature control material, such as a cooling fluid, by a circulation component. The temperature of the organ and fluid are sensed by one or more sensors and the sensed temperatures are provided to a temperature control unit to increase or decrease the temperature of the temperature control material to maintain a temperature of an organ for in-vivo or ex-vivo surgical procedures.

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Dependent claims

An organ supporting apparatus comprising:

a tube comprising a first supporting region, a second supporting region separated from the first supporting region in a first direction, and a connecting region connecting the first region and the second region;
a first plurality of bends in the first supporting region of the tube, wherein the first plurality of bends are separated from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;
a second plurality of bends in the second supporting region tube, wherein the second plurality of bends are separated from each other in the second direction;
and
a circulation component configured to convey a temperature control material through the tube, wherein the temperature control material comprises a liquid or a gas.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/236,613Filed 21 Apr 2021

Priority

22 Apr 2020

Published

28 Oct 2021

Term ends

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Classification19 codes

A01N 1/142
Mechanical aspects of preservation; Apparatus or containers therefor: apparatus
A01N 1/162
Physical preservation processes: temperature processes, e.g. following predefined temperature changes over time
A01N 1/144
Apparatus: for temperature control, e.g. refrigerators or freeze-drying apparatus
A61B 17/02
Surgical instruments, devices or methods: for holding wounds open, e.g. retractors; Tractors

Organ support and temperature control device

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Organ support and temperature control device

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Abstract

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