Charles R Hanes

US Patent:

20080207988, Aug 28, 2008

Filed:

Feb 28, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/039488

Inventors:

Charles R. Hanes - Mobile AL, US

International Classification:

A61F 5/40

US Classification:

600 37

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are a number of embodiments of methods for suspending an organ in a body, and many embodiments of apparatus for suspending an organ in a body. One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a sleeve having a lumen. A dissecting instrument is slidably located within the lumen. The dissecting instrument includes a channel useful for hydrodissection. An operating instrument is slidably located within the lumen. The operating instrument includes a graft chamber for conveying a graft for fixation between the organ and the body. The operating instrument includes at least one operating channel that accepts a fixation device that fixes the graft between the organ and the body. In one method, an incision is made in the body. An operating instrument bearing a graft is inserted into a sleeve. The sleeve and the operating instrument are inserted through the incision. A fixation device is inserted into the operating instrument. The graft is fixed to the body with the fixation device. The fixation device is removed from the operating instrument. The operating device and the sleeve are removed through the incision. The graft is attached to the organ.

US Patent:

20140135809, May 15, 2014

Filed:

Nov 13, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/078752

Inventors:

David W. Robertson - Framingham MA, US
Charles Hanes - Mobile AL, US
Peter Lotze - Missouri City TX, US

Assignee:

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC. - Maple Grove MN

International Classification:

A61M 29/00

US Classification:

606191

Abstract:

Embodiments of the disclosure may include a method for providing access within a patient that may include inserting a medical device through an opening of the patient. The medical device may include an overtube having a lumen and a slot and an elongate member disposed within the lumen of the overtube, wherein the elongate member may include an expandable member configured to expand and collapse. The method may further include positioning the medical device proximate a site in the patient, positioning the overtube relative to the elongate member such that a portion of the expandable member faces the slot, and the slot faces the site, and expanding the portion of the expandable member out of the slot and toward the site.