Abstract: Medical devices for delivering a plug to a void within a patient. The medical device can include a fluid delivery device and a plug holder (e.g., a plug delivery device) coupled to a distal end of the fluid delivery device. The medical device may be configured such that the delivery of fluid from the fluid delivery device wets the plug, ejects the plug from the plug holder, and pushes the plug through a lumen of an elongate tube to a void within a patient.

Abstract: Coverings for syringe plunger tips, as well as syringes and syringe components including such coverings, are disclosed. A material of the covering may have at least one different material property than a material of the plunger tip. The coverings may provide a reduced coefficient of friction between the covering and a surface of the syringe relative to the coefficient of friction between the plunger tip and the syringe surface. The coverings may also isolate a substance loaded in the syringe from the plunger tip. The coverings may include a locking member to lock the covering over the plunger tip. Methods for manufacturing a syringe assembly including such coverings are also disclosed.

Abstract: A device, and related systems and methods, for inserting a marker into a patient's body. The device may comprise a retention mechanism to hold the device in a first, undeployed, state. The device may be inserted into a patient's body in the first state, transitioned by the user into a second state wherein the retention mechanism is overcome, and then transition the device into a third state to deliver a marker to a precise location. The device may then be removed from the patient's body.

Abstract: Devices used to drain fluid are disclosed. The devices may be configured to drain fluid from a body cavity using a vacuum pressure. The devices include a reservoir and a vacuum generating member configured to expand the reservoir and generate a vacuum pressure within the reservoir. The devices can be configured to be shipped in a collapsed state.

Abstract: Medical devices for delivering compositions or medical articles to a patient are disclosed. The medical plug delivery devices can include a fluid delivery device (e.g., a syringe), a frame, and a rotatable magazine. The rotatable magazine can include a plurality of chambers that each hold a composition or a medical article (e.g., a medical plug). By rotating the rotatable magazine relative to the frame, material within the chambers of the rotatable magazine can be sequentially deployed to a patient.

Abstract: An incremental syringe configured for displacement of fluid, such as medicaments is disclosed. The syringe may comprise detents on the syringe plunger configured to provide tactile feedback, audible feedback, or both, for discrete units of fluid aspirated or injected to or from the syringe. In some embodiments, a second set of detents is included, and in some embodiments a third set of detents is included.

Abstract: Coatings for syringe plunger tips, as well as syringes and syringe components including such coatings, are disclosed. A material of the coating may have at least one different material property than a material of the syringe component to which it is applied. The coatings may provide a reduced coefficient of friction between the coating and a surface of the syringe relative to the coefficient of friction between the uncoated component and the syringe surface. Methods for manufacturing a syringe or syringe component including such coatings, as well as methods for isolating a substance in a syringe from a syringe component, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods used to deploy a localization device into a target lesion are disclosed. The system includes a delivery device configurable in a ready-to-deploy state and a deployed state. When the delivery device is in the ready-to-deploy state, biased engagement members are engaged with proximal detents of a handle of the delivery device. When the delivery device is in the deployed state, the biased engagement members are engaged with distal detents. The delivery device is transitioned from the ready-to-deploy state to the deployed state by distal displacement of a plunger relative to the handle. The localization device is deployed from a cannula of the delivery device into the target lesion when the delivery device transitions from the ready-to-deploy state to the deployed state.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods used to drain a body cavity under a vacuum are disclosed. The devices include a vacuum container, a cap, and a vacuum indicator. The vacuum indicator is configured to indicate a vacuum status of the container. The vacuum indicator includes one or more of an expandable member, a flexible membrane, a linear pressure gauge, a digital pressure gauge, a retractable member, a vacuum gauge, a displaceable seal member, a deflectable membrane, or a deflectable member.

Abstract: Devices and methods used collect and transport a biological specimen are disclosed. The devices include a vial defining a specimen chamber to retain a specimen, a collection member to collect a specimen, and a cap containing a liquid medium to treat the specimen for transport. The cap includes a puncture member to puncture a seal to release the liquid medium from the cap.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for mixing and injecting fluid treatment, such as cement to treat bone or hard tissue. In some embodiments, a mixing apparatus may facilitate mixing within a syringe. Additionally, the syringe may be configured to extract bone cement from a cement mixer. A syringe for mixing and injecting cement may include a detachable handle that may be detached after extracting bone cement from a mixer to facilitate coupling to a high-pressure syringe for injection.

Abstract: Medical devices for delivering compositions or medical articles to a patient are disclosed. The medical plug delivery devices can include a fluid delivery device (e.g., a syringe), a frame, and a rotatable magazine. The rotatable magazine can include a plurality of chambers that each hold a composition or a medical article (e.g., a medical plug). By rotating the rotatable magazine relative to the frame, material within the chambers of the rotatable magazine can be sequentially deployed to a patient.

Abstract: Medical device dispensers along with related systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments dispenses within the scope of this disclosure may be configured to couple another structure such as an IV pole. Additionally, dispensers within the scope of this disclosure may be configured with locking or otherwise tamper resistant elements.

Abstract: Devices used to pressurize, depressurize, or otherwise displace fluid are disclosed. The devices may be configured to displace fluid in order to inflate or deflate a medical device, such as a balloon. The devices further include a crank member for providing a mechanical advantage when pressurizing or otherwise displacing fluid.

Abstract: Devices used to pressurize, depressurize, or otherwise displace fluid are disclosed. The devices may be configured to displace fluid in order to inflate or deflate a medical device, such as a balloon. The devices include a trigger configured to convert the devices from a pressurization state to a priming state. The devices further include a locking or toggle member configured to toggle and/or maintain the devices in a priming state.

Abstract: A support or holder for a biopsy device is disclosed. The support includes a holder section that grasps or otherwise supports the biopsy device, wherein the support may be configured with flexible support members that may be bent, flexed or articulated thereby allowing the practitioner to manipulate the support for re-positioning the biopsy device into a desired position where the biopsy device may then be actuated to acquire a tissue sample.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector for medical devices. The connector may have two interfaces facing different planes. The two interfaces may provide access to the connector's core and hub. The hub may be free to rotate relative to the core to increase accessibility and/or angle attachment while maintaining a fluid pathway between the core and the hub.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and kits are for testing a catheter for an obstruction with a lumen by a medical practitioner at the point of use. In some embodiments, an elongate member, including elongate members comprising a gauge portion, is inserted into the lumen configured to detect a reduced diameter condition.

Abstract: Medical connectors, including connectors for fluidly coupling fluid lines are disclosed. Some connectors may be configured for coupling fluid lines together including keying features to enable coupling of connector pairs having corresponding keying features and prevent coupling of connector pairs having non-corresponding keying features.