Abstract: A tissue handling system includes a biopsy device and a tissue storage container separate from the biopsy device. The biopsy device has a cutting cannula, a housing, and a tissue collecting device. The tissue collecting device is detachably received in the housing. The tissue collecting device is configured to receive at least one tissue sample. The tissue storage container is configured to detachably receive the tissue collecting device after the tissue collecting device is disengaged from the housing of the biopsy device to deliver the at least one tissue sample from the tissue collecting device to the tissue storage container.

Abstract: A cauterization device includes a handpiece configured to be grasped by a user. The handpiece includes a housing, a heat control circuit, and a control switch. A cannula has a cannula lumen, a cannula side wall surrounding the cannula lumen, a cannula proximal end portion, and a cannula distal end. The cannula proximal end portion is coupled to the housing of the handpiece. A stylet has a shaft portion and a distal heat conductive body. The distal heat conductive body is electrically coupled to the heat control circuit. The distal heat conductive body has a first end and a tapered portion that distally terminates at a second end. The shaft portion is located, at least in part, in the cannula lumen. The insulator member is configured to thermally separate the cannula distal end from the distal heat conductive body of the stylet.

Abstract: A microcavitation system, device, and ultrasonic probe assembly for generating directional microcavitation includes a cannula and an ultrasonic transmission member. The ultrasonic transmission member has a first end portion and a second end spaced apart from the first end portion. The cannula has a tubular side wall, a cannula lumen, a fluid input port, a proximal end, a distal end, and a distal end portion. The ultrasonic transmission member is located in the cannula lumen. The fluid input port of the cannula is connected in fluid communication with the cannula lumen. The distal end portion of the cannula is configured to define a cavitation generation chamber. The cavitation generation chamber has a distal end wall at the distal end of the cannula that is configured as a sieve to define a plurality of apertures.

Abstract: A biopsy apparatus includes a piercing module having a probe drive slider coupled to a probe carrier body of a biopsy probe assembly, and has a primed position and a fired position. A nut housing has a home position and an extended position. A drive spindle is drivably coupled to a motor driveshaft, and is coupled to the nut housing. A firing spring is interposed between a motor housing and the probe drive slider. A release arm is pivotably coupled to a piercing module frame. When the probe drive slider is in the primed position and the release arm is in a latch position, the release arm is positioned to engage the probe drive slider to hold the probe drive slider in the primed position. A release slider releases the release arm from the latch position when the nut housing is moved from the home position to the extended position.

Abstract: An ultrasonic probe assembly includes a handle configured to be handheld, and has a housing that defines a chamber. A carriage is slidably coupled to the housing. The carriage has an operator arm configured to be operable by a user to move the carriage between a first position and a second position. An ultrasonic catheter has a catheter sheath and an ultrasonic core wire. The ultrasonic catheter has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. An ultrasonic transducer is positioned in the chamber of the housing. The ultrasonic transducer is connected to the proximal end portion of the ultrasonic catheter, and the ultrasonic transducer is connected to the carriage. The ultrasonic transducer is configured to longitudinally move in the chamber of the housing between a retracted position and an extended position coincident with a corresponding longitudinal movement of the carriage.

Abstract: A system for use in sealing a portion of pleural layers together includes an electrical energy source, and an electrocautery probe electrically coupled to the electrical energy source. The electrocautery probe has a cannula shaft portion, a distal penetrating tip, and an intermediate portion interposed between the cannula shaft portion and distal penetrating tip. The electrocautery probe is configured to generate heat. A protein source is coupled to the intermediate portion of the electrocautery probe, wherein the protein source has a protein that is denatured by heat.

Abstract: An apparatus for implanting a localization wire, wherein the apparatus exhibits a ready configuration and a relaxed configuration, includes a handle having a slot and a cannula disposed within the handle and having an insertion tip and a projection configured to selectively enter the slot. The cannula is movable between a ready configuration and a relaxed configuration. A localization wire is disposed within the cannula. An actuator is configured to retract the cannula into the handle.

Abstract: A method for treatment of a vascular lesion. A biomarker insertion device introduces a biomarker into a vascular region. The biomarker binds to a lesion type of a plurality of lesion types. Under ultrasound imaging, an image brightness of an imaged biomarker differs based on the lesion type of the plurality of lesion types to which the biomarker binds. An ultrasound imaging probe of an ultrasound imaging system images the biomarker and produces an image brightness of the imaged biomarker. The lesion type is determined based on the image brightness of the imaged biomarker. A frequency of a high intensity focused ultrasound emission of a non-invasive high intensity focused ultrasound device is tuned based on the determined lesion type. The tuned frequency is applied to the vascular lesion, resulting in the destruction of the vascular lesion.

Abstract: A biopsy system includes a biopsy probe configured to sever tissue to acquire a tissue sample. The biopsy probe has biopsy needle portion having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen. A vacuum source is coupled to the lumen. The vacuum source is configured to generate a vacuum to transport the tissue sample through the lumen and expel the tissue sample from the lumen at the proximal end of the biopsy needle portion. An arrangement of compression plates is configured to receive the tissue sample from the proximal end of the biopsy probe and is operable to compress the tissue sample. The arrangement of compression plates has a plurality of impedance measurement electrodes. An impedance measurement circuit is connected to the plurality of impedance measurement electrodes.

Abstract: An adjustable interface device for connecting two components of a medical device includes an elongate body and an elongate member. The elongate body has a first end, a second end, an interior channel, and a side wall that surrounds the interior channel. The side wall defines a first connector portion adjacent the second end. The first connector portion attaches to a respective one of the components of the medical device. The elongate member has a head end portion and a shaft portion that longitudinally extends from the head end portion. The shaft portion is located at least partially in the interior channel of the elongate body. The shaft portion is configured to slidably move axially along the longitudinal axis to adjust a length of the adjustable interface device. The head end portion defines a second connector portion that attaches to another of the components of the medical device.

Abstract: An implant for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax includes a tubular body that has a lumen, a proximal end, and a distal end portion that terminates at a distal end. The tubular body has a longitudinal axis and has a side wall that radially surrounds the lumen. The side wall has an exterior surface. An anchor member is connected to the tubular body, wherein the anchor member is movable relative to the tubular body from a collapsed state to a deployed state. At least one suture is connected to the tubular body, wherein the at least one suture extends in a proximal direction from the proximal end of the tubular body.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for providing per-procedure pricing for a product are disclosed. A system includes a facility monitoring system having one or more data gathering devices collecting data pertaining to use of a plurality of units of the product over a period of time. The system also includes a product provider system communicatively coupled to the facility monitoring system and including a determination device that receives the data and determines a total average number of units per procedure for the product, the determination device including a machine learning component trained to determine an expected number of units per procedure and determine a plurality of pricing tiers that establish a price is used to calculate an adjusted per-procedure price for the product over the period of time, the determination device issuing a rebate if the adjusted per-procedure price is less than an upfront cost paid.

Abstract: A method for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax includes providing a cannula having a pair of balloons, the pair of balloons including a first balloon longitudinally spaced from a second balloon along the cannula; inserting the cannula along an access opening and through pleural layers of a patient, with the first balloon and the second balloon of the pair of balloons respectively positioned on opposite sides of the pleural layers; inflating the pair of balloons with a first amount of a two-component sealant to compress the pleural layers together; and inflating the pair of balloons with a second amount of the two-component sealant that is sufficient to rupture the pair of balloons so as to comingle a first sealant component and a second sealant component of the two-component sealant at the site of the pleural layers so as to adhere the pleural layers together.

Abstract: A method of operating a marking device includes defining an initial condition wherein a cannula is in an extended position and a stylet is in a ready position in the extended cannula, and, starting from the initial condition with the cannula in the extended position, sequentially: effecting movement of the stylet from a ready position to an implant position, ejecting an imaging marker through a distal opening in a cannula distal end of the cannula, and then; effecting a simultaneous unitary retraction of the cannula and stylet after ejection of the imaging marker from the distal opening in the cannula distal end.

Abstract: A method for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax includes providing a cannula having a pair of balloons, the pair of balloons including a first balloon longitudinally spaced from a second balloon along the cannula; inserting the cannula along an access opening and through pleural layers, with the first balloon and the second balloon of the pair of balloons respectively positioned on opposite sides of the pleural layers; inflating the pair of balloons with a first amount of a two-component sealant to compress the pleural layers together; and inflating the pair of balloons with a second amount of the two-component sealant that is sufficient to rupture the pair of balloons so as to comingle a first sealant component and a second sealant component of the two-component sealant at the site of the pleural layers so as to adhere the pleural layers together.

Abstract: A non-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon comprises a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer embedded in a continuous matrix of thermally-weldable polymer material defining a barrel wall, cone walls and neck walls. The fibers of the first fiber layer have a pattern of different lengths and are divisible into a first group and a second group based on length. The length of the fibers of the second group varies progressively in accordance to their proximity to the fibers of the first group; the fibers of the second group closest to the fibers of the first group being longer than the fibers of the second group further from the fibers of the first group. The fiber of the second fiber layer winds circumferentially around the longitudinal axis of the balloon substantially over the entire length of the balloon.

Abstract: A non-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon comprises a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer embedded in a continuous matrix of thermally-weldable polymer material defining a barrel wall, cone walls and neck walls. The fibers of the first fiber layer run substantially parallel to one another and substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The fibers of the first fiber layer have a pattern of different lengths and are divisible into a first group and a second group based on length.