Patents Assigned to Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.
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Patent number: 9155538Abstract: Surgical bolts are useful for solid visceral wound hemostasis. The devices utilize flexible, variable depth transfixing bolts that penetrate the viscera. These bolts bring the tissue into apposition and hold said tissue in apposition while the wound heals. These bolts, or soft tissue rivets, overcome the limitations of sutures that are currently used for the same purposes. The devices are flexible, bendable, and conformable in their wet or dry state. The bolts include pressure plates that are capable of exerting compressive pressure over broad areas of visceral wounds without causing tearing of the friable parenchyma. The bolts are placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access. The bolts can be placed into tissue where both sides of the bolt are exposed, or they can be placed blindly into tissue where the bolt does not protrude out of the tissue at its distal end.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: DAMAGE CONTROL SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Robert F Buckman, Jr., Jay A. Lenker, Donald J Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 8845569Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving control and stabilization of bone fractures in mammals, most specifically humans. Stabilization and traction is often required to support fractured bones of the arms or legs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency or military setting. The devices utilize a collapsible, inflatable member that is expanded and locked into position. The frame or inflatable member is fabricated primarily from polymeric materials with low radiodensity. The limb contact regions are adjustable to fit a wide variety of limb sizes and fracture locations. The traction applied by the splint is adjustable, controllable and measurable. The traction splint is compact and will fit in a compartment of most emergency rescue vehicles, thus making it more available for use than standard traction splints used today. The traction splint is either a separate device or integrated into a backboard.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 8480693Abstract: A device and method for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in vascular structures and other body ducts or vessels in an emergency room or trauma situation. The device has at least one shunt that contains an obturator on an end of the shunt. The shunt is inserted into a damaged vessel or lumen for sealing the leak or hemorrhage. Two shunts that both contain obturators on one of their ends can be inserted into two different vessels or lumens when the vessel or lumen has been severed. The obturators allow for the improved ease of insertion into the vessel or lumen. The two shunts are then releasably attached to restore fluid communication through the vessel or lumen. The shunt is placed temporarily within the patient and then removed when definitive repair can be achieved by a qualified physician.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 8252970Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving hemostasis in traumatized patients. Such haemostatic packing devices and methods are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting. In such cases, the patient may have received trauma to abdominal viscera, the thoracic cavity or the periphery. The devices utilize fluid impermeable outer surfaces and distributed pressure to achieve tamponade and hemostasis, primarily by exertion of pressure. The devices are flexible, bendable, and conformable in their wet or dry state so that they exert distributed pressure on the wound. Peripheral haemostatic packing devices include optional adhesive structures to attach one packing device to another. The hemostatic packing devices may be placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access without generating excessive re-bleeding. The devices can be inserted into a wound and filled with fluid, gel, or particulates through an axially elongate tube to generate pressure to tamponade the wound.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 8211046Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving control and stabilization of bone fractures in mammals, most specifically humans. Stabilization and traction is often required to support fractured bones of the arms or legs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency or military setting. The devices utilize a collapsible frame or inflatable member that may be expanded and locked into position. The frame or inflatable member is fabricated primarily from polymeric materials with low radiodensity. The limb contact regions are adjustable to fit a wide variety of limb sizes and fracture locations. The traction applied by the splint is adjustable, controllable and measurable. The traction splint is sufficiently compact that it will fit in a compartment of most ambulances and emergency rescue vehicles, thus making it more available for use than standard traction splints in use today. The traction splint is either a separate device or integrated into a backboard.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 8187290Abstract: Devices and methods for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in hollow body vessels such as the small and large intestines, arteries, and veins as well as ducts leading to the gall bladder and other organs. The devices and methods disclosed are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting, and most especially during damage control procedures. In such cases, the patient may have received trauma to the abdomen, extremities, neck or thoracic region. The devices utilize removable or permanently implanted, broad, soft, parallel jaw clips with minimal projections to maintain vessel contents without damage to the tissue comprising the vessel. These clips are applied using either standard instruments or custom devices that are subsequently removed leaving the clips implanted, on a temporary or permanent basis, to provide for hemostasis or leakage prevention, or both. These clips overcome the limitations of clips and sutures that are currently used for the same purposes.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 8114124Abstract: Surgical bolts are useful for solid visceral wound hemostasis. The devices utilize flexible, variable depth transfixing bolts that penetrate the viscera. These bolts bring the tissue into apposition and hold said tissue in apposition while the wound heals. These bolts, or soft tissue rivets, overcome the limitations of sutures that are currently used for the same purposes. The devices are flexible, bendable, and conformable in their wet or dry state. The bolts include pressure plates that are capable of exerting compressive pressure over broad areas of visceral wounds without causing tearing of the friable parenchyma. The bolts are placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access. The bolts can be placed into tissue where both sides of the bolt are exposed, or they can be placed blindly into tissue where the bolt does not protrude out of the tissue at its distal end.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker
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Patent number: 7935069Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving control and stabilization of bone fractures in mammals, most specifically humans. Stabilization and traction is often required to support fractured bones of the arms or legs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency or military setting. The devices utilize a collapsible frame or inflatable member that may be expanded and locked into position. The frame or inflatable member is fabricated primarily from polymeric materials with low radiodensity. The limb contact regions are adjustable to fit a wide variety of limb sizes and fracture locations. The traction applied by the splint is adjustable, controllable and measurable. The traction splint is sufficiently compact that it will fit in a compartment of most ambulances and emergency rescue vehicles, thus making it more available for use than standard traction splints in use today. The traction splint is either a separate device or integrated into a backboard.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 7507216Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving control and stabilization of bone fractures in mammals, most specifically humans. Stabilization and traction is often required to support fractured bones of the arms or legs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency or military setting. The devices utilize a collapsible frame or inflatable member that may be expanded and locked into position. The frame or inflatable member is fabricated primarily from polymeric materials with low radiodensity. The limb contact regions are adjustable to fit a wide variety of limb sizes and fracture locations. The traction applied by the splint is adjustable, controllable and measurable. The traction splint is sufficiently compact that it will fit in a compartment of most ambulances and emergency rescue vehicles, thus making it more available for use than standard traction splints in use today. The traction splint is either a separate device or integrated into a backboard.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 7335215Abstract: A device and method for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in vascular structures and other body ducts or vessels in an emergency room or trauma situation. The device has at least one shunt that contains an obturator on an end of the shunt. The shunt is inserted into a damaged vessel or lumen for sealing the leak or hemorrhage. Two shunts that both contain obturators on one of their ends can be inserted into two different vessels or lumens when the vessel or lumen has been severed. The obturators allow for the improved ease of insertion into the vessel or lumen. The two shunts are then releasably attached to restore fluid communication through the vessel or lumen. The shunt is placed temporarily within the patient and then removed when definitive repair can be achieved by a qualified physician.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2003Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 7329792Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving hemostasis in patients who have received skin-penetrating wounds to the periphery, including the head, arms, and legs. Such haemostatic packing devices and methods are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery, or military setting. The devices utilize fluid impermeable barriers surrounded by exterior dams and pressure to achieve tamponade and hemostasis, primarily by exertion of force to hold the dams against the skin surrounding a wound. The devices are capable of serving as carriers for thrombogenic, antimicrobial or antipathogenic agents. The devices do not require the use of adhesives to work as they are attached to the patient using mechanical locking devices. Peripheral haemostatic packing devices include optional adhesive hemostatic barriers to attach at least a portion of the device to the skin or to assist with initial coupling of a hold-down strap to another strap using a more secure mechanical lock.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 7322995Abstract: Devices and methods for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in hollow body vessels such as the small and large intestines, arteries and veins as well as ducts leading to the gall bladder and other organs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting, and most especially during damage control procedures. In such cases, the patient may have received trauma to the abdomen, extremities, neck or thoracic region. The devices utilize removable or permanently implanted, broad, soft, parallel jaw clips with minimal projections to maintain vessel contents without damage to the tissue comprising the vessel. These clips are applied using either standard instruments or custom devices that are subsequently removed leaving the clips implanted, on a temporary or permanent basis, to provide for hemostasis or leakage prevention, or both. These clips overcome the limitations of clips and sutures that are currently used for the same purposes.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 7022094Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving control and stabilization of bone fractures in mammals, most specifically humans. Stabilization and traction is often required to support fractured bones of the arms or legs. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency or military setting. The devices utilize a collapsible frame that may be expanded and locked into position. The frame is fabricated primarily from polymeric materials with low radiodensity. The limb contact regions are adjustable to fit a wide variety of limb sizes and fracture locations. The traction applied by the splint is adjustable, controllable and measurable. The traction splint of the current invention is sufficiently compact that it will fit in a compartment of most ambulances and emergency rescue vehicles, thus making it more available for use than standard traction splints in use today. The traction splint is either a separate device or integrated into a backboard.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2004Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Patent number: 6998510Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving hemostasis in traumatized patients. The devices utilize fluid impermeable outer surfaces and distributed pressure to achieve tamponade and hemostasis, primarily by exertion of pressure. The devices are capable of serving as carriers for throabogenic or antipathogenic agents. Peripheral haemostatic packing devices include optional adhesive hemostatic barriers to cover the entire wound area over the hemostatic pack. The hemostatic packing devices may be placed and removed by open surgery or laparoscopic access without generating excessive re-bleeding, and may further comprise antimicrobial or thrombogenic regions.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker
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Patent number: 6905484Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving chest drainage in humans or other animals. Chest drainage is often required following traumatic injury or surgery. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting. The devices utilize a chest tube with a cutting distal end and a central blunt trocar. The blunt trocar or obturator shields the sharp cutting distal end of the chest tube until controllably retracted. Once the blunt trocar or obturator is retracted, the chest tube is advanced out through its sterile, protective package and into the patient. The blunt trocar is advanced back into its position to shield the sharp tip of the chest tube during patient insertion. The chest tube also includes a hold-down mechanism that is created by an adhesive seal to the patient's chest and ribbons or straps that are wrapped around the chest tube once it is correctly positioned.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Publication number: 20040167450Abstract: Devices and methods for splinting limbs with a telescoping splint.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2004Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Publication number: 20040153104Abstract: A device and method for achieving hemostasis and leakage control in vascular structures and other body ducts or vessels in an emergency room or trauma situation. The device has at least one shunt that contains an obturator on an end of the shunt. The shunt is inserted into a damaged vessel or lumen for sealing the leak or hemorrhage. Two shunts that both contain obturators on one of their ends can be inserted into two different vessels or lumens when the vessel or lumen has been severed. The obturators allow for the improved ease of insertion into the vessel or lumen. The two shunts are then releasably attached to restore fluid communication through the vessel or lumen. The shunt is placed temporarily within the patient and then removed when definitive repair can be achieved by a qualified physician.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Publication number: 20040133226Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving chest drainage in humans or other animals. Chest drainage is often required following traumatic injury or surgery. The devices and methods disclosed herein are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting. The devices utilize a chest tube with a cutting distal end and a central blunt trocar. The blunt trocar or obturator shields the sharp cutting distal end of the chest tube until controllably retracted. Once the blunt trocar or obturator is retracted, the chest tube is advanced out through its sterile, protective package and into the patient. The blunt trocar is advanced back into its position to shield the sharp tip of the chest tube during patient insertion. The chest tube also includes a hold-down mechanism that is created by an adhesive seal to the patient's chest and ribbons or straps that are wrapped around the chest tube once it is correctly positioned.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Publication number: 20030176890Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for achieving hemostasis in solid visceral wounds. Such devices and methods are especially useful in the emergency, trauma surgery or military setting. In such cases, the patient may have received trauma to the abdominal viscera. The devices utilize flexible, variable depth transfixing bolts that penetrate the viscera. These bolts are pulled tight to bring the tissue into apposition and hold said tissue in apposition while the wound heals. These bolts overcome the limitations of sutures that are currently used for the same purposes. The bolts come in a variety of lengths and diameters. Since the bolts are flexible, the curvature may be adjusted by the surgeon. The devices are flexible, bendable, and conformable in their wet or dry state. They can be used either straight or through a broad range of curvatures to suit the needs of various pathologies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker, Donald J. Kolehmainen
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Publication number: 20030176785Abstract: A system is disclosed for tracking patients. Such systems are especially useful in the emergency or military setting or in the case of a national emergency. In such cases, the patient may be transported far from home or from the site of the injury in order to receive treatment. The system has application, as well however, for patient tracking within normal hospital systems. The system utilizes a passive, unique coding system for each patient. A coded device is associated with each patient in such a way that the coded device cannot be removed or disassociated from the patient without a concerted effort. A reader and encoder is used at the time of application of the coded device, to the patient, to enter pertinent information about the patient into a national database. Such information may be used or augmented as required during the medical care of the patient and return of the patient to normal life.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: Damage Control Surgical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Buckman, Jay A. Lenker