Guidewire manipulation device
AssigneeVesatek, LLC
InventorsAaron Rollins, Tor Alden
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Abstract
A guidewire manipulation device includes a housing sized to be supported by a hand of a user, the housing having a distal end and a proximal end; a rotation member rotationally disposed within the housing; a locking assembly coupled to the rotation member, the locking assembly configured to selectively transfer rotational movement of the rotation member to rotational movement of a guidewire; a handle coupled to the housing and configured to be operable by the hand of the user; and a drive system coupled to the handle, the drive system configured to apply alternating clockwise motion and counter-clockwise motion to the guidewire by causing the rotation member to rotate.
Claims20
A guidewire manipulation device comprising:
- a housing sized to be supported by a hand of a user, the housing having a distal end and a proximal end;
- a rotation member rotationally disposed within the housing;
- a locking assembly coupled to the rotation member, the locking assembly configured to selectively transfer rotational movement of the rotation member to rotational movement of a guidewire;
- a handle coupled to the housing and configured to be operable by the hand of the user;
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- a drive system coupled to the handle, the drive system configured to apply alternating clockwise motion and counter-clockwise motion to the guidewire by causing the rotation member to rotate.
A method for manipulating a guidewire, comprising:
- providing a guidewire manipulation device comprising:
- a housing sized to be supported by a hand of a user, the housing having a distal end and a proximal end;
- a rotation member rotationally disposed within the housing;
- a locking assembly coupled to the rotation member, the locking assembly configured to selectively transfer rotational movement of the rotation member to rotational movement of a guidewire;
- a handle coupled to the housing and configured to be operable by the hand of the user;
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- a drive system coupled to the handle, the drive system configured to apply alternating clockwise motion and counter-clockwise motion to the guidewire by causing the rotation member to rotate;
- introducing a guidewire into a patient;
- sliding the guidewire manipulation device over the guidewire;
- engaging the rotation member with the guidewire;
- actuating the manipulation device to rotate the guidewire in a first rotational direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.