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US 6,324,435 B1Granted
Electrical connector for cardiac devices
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsSemyon Shchervinsky, Lowell Saferstein, Alex B. Ilori, Robert E. Maurer
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Abstract
An electrical connector for a cardiac device is disclosed. The connector has a wire and an electrode at the distal end of the wire. The wire is attached to a patch, and the patch is coated with an adhesive film for adhering the patch to tissue. The preferred connector is a bipolar temporary cardiac pacing wire. The use of an adhesive film eliminates or reduces the need for suturing the patch to tissue, thus avoiding or significantly reducing tissue trauma associated with suturing.
Claims16
An electrical connector for a cardiac device, said connector comprising:
- a) a wire having a proximal end and a distal end,
- b) a first electrode at the distal end of said wire,
- c) a patch at the distal end of said wire, said patch having an external surface and a tissue contacting surface, said tissue contacting surface of said patch being coated with an adhesive film for adhering said patch to tissue, and said electrode being in contact with said adhesive film coated on said tissue contacting surface of said patch, and
- d) a breakaway needle attached to the proximal end of said wire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.