Patents Assigned to Vidacare Corporation
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Patent number: 8944069Abstract: Medical devices, medical procedure trays, kits and related methods are provided for use to perform medical procedures that require access to the interior of a bone. The devices, trays and methods allow multiple use of non-sterile medical devices with sterile medical devices for performing medical procedures requiring sterile conditions. A coupler assembly, capable of releasably attaching to a non-sterile medical device at one end and releasably attaching to one or more sterile medical devices at another end, and further comprising a containment bag which allows maintaining sterility of a non-sterile medical device which may be used in conjunction with sterile medical devices and procedures. The devices, trays, kits and methods enable the performance of multiple medical procedures with a single insertion into bone. For example, a vertebral procedure such as a vertebroplasty may be performed along with biopsy and/or bone marrow aspiration procedures, thereby reducing patient trauma and costs.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Larry J. Miller, Eric W. Eisbrenner
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Publication number: 20140343454Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to remove biopsy specimens from a bone and/or associated bone marrow using a powered drive and an intraosseous (IO) needle set. The powered driver may rotate the IO needle set at an optimum speed to obtain a biopsy sample of bone and/or bone marrow. Apparatus and methods may also be provided for aspiration of bone marrow and/or stem cell transplant procedures. The apparatus may include a powered driver, a coupler assembly, a containment bag or sterile sleeve and various IO needles and IO needle sets with associated hubs and/or hub assemblies. Each IO needle set may include a cannula or catheter and an associated trocar stylet with respective tips operable to penetrate a bone and/or bone marrow with minimum trauma to a patient. Each hub assembly may be used to releasably dispose a respective stylet within an associated generally hollow cannula. Some coupler assemblies and/or hub assemblies may also be used with manual drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: VIDACARE CORPORATIONInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Robert W. Titkemeyer, Christopher Brian Kilcoin, Matthew T. Harmon, Bradford Hughes Craig
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Patent number: 8876826Abstract: An apparatus and method for penetrating bone marrow is provided. The apparatus may include a housing such as a handheld body, a penetrator assembly, a connector that releasably attaches the penetrator assembly to a drill shaft, a gear mechanism, a motor and a power supply and associated circuitry operable to power the motor. The penetrator assembly may include a removable inner trocar and an outer penetrator or needle. It may also include a grooved trocar that allows bone chips to be expelled as the apparatus is inserted into bone marrow. Various connectors are provided to attach the penetrator assembly to the drill shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Patent number: 8870872Abstract: An apparatus for penetrating a bone marrow of a bone is provided. The apparatus includes a housing comprising a handle and a trigger mechanism, a spring-loaded assembly comprising a rod and a shaft; and a connector comprising a first end operable to connect to the drive shaft and a second end operable to attach to a penetrator hub. The penetrator hub includes a penetrator operable to access the bone marrow.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Publication number: 20140288499Abstract: An apparatus and method for penetrating the bone marrow is provided. The apparatus includes a housing, a penetrator assembly, operable to penetrate the bone marrow, a connector operable to releasably attach the penetrator assembly to a drill shaft, the drill shaft operable to connect the penetrator assembly to a gear assembly, a gear assembly operable to engage and rotate the drill shaft, a motor operable to engage the reduction gear assembly and drive the penetrator into the bone marrow by rotation of the drill shaft, and a power supply and associated circuitry operable to power the motor. The apparatus and method may be adapted to insert a probe through the skull and into the brain.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: VIDACARE CORPORATIONInventor: Larry J. MILLER
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Publication number: 20140262408Abstract: Drivers and drive systems (e.g., off-axis drive systems, pneumatic motors, multi-gear drive systems, and/or the like), and kits comprising drivers with drive systems, such as those, for example, configured to move a drive shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Steven Paul Woodard
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Publication number: 20140276206Abstract: This disclosure includes various embodiments of couplers for coupling intraosseous (IO) devices and drivers, and various embodiments of drivers and kits.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Steven Paul Woodward, Michel Yoon
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Publication number: 20140262880Abstract: Containment assemblies and methods and kits comprising containment assemblies, such as those configured to receive and/or seal a driver, such as a manual driver or a powered driver, for use in a medical procedure, such as a biopsy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Michel Yoon
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Publication number: 20140276839Abstract: Driver assemblies, drivers, drill bits, and methods for determining information (such as impedances, voltages, voltage differences, and changes in such information) about biological material during a medical procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Michael Robert Forman, Eric Norman Rudie
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Patent number: 8812101Abstract: Automatic external defibrillator apparatus may be provided for use in cooperation with an intraosseous apparatus. Apparatus and methods may also be provided to execute protocols calling for external defibrillation and drug delivery. The disclosure provides a medical apparatus including two electrodes, a processor, a display, a driver, a drug delivery slot, a drug delivery port, and a voltage source. The two electrodes may include an attachment operable to releasably connect the two electrodes to the patient. The processor may be operable to collect and analyze a rhythm associated with the patient's heart from the two electrodes. The display may be operable to communicate instructions to a user. The driver may be operable to insert an intraosseous device into a bone and associated bone marrow of the patient. The drug delivery slot may be operable to receive a drug. The drug delivery port may be operable to communicate the drug from the drug delivery slot to the patient via the intraosseous device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Robert W. Titkemeyer
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Publication number: 20140188001Abstract: Medical procedure trays and related methods are provided to accommodate joining a first non-sterile medical device with a second sterile medical device and maintaining required sterilization of the second sterile medical device to perform an associated medical procedure. One example of such medical procedures includes biopsy of a bone and/or associated bone marrow using a non-sterile powered drive and a sterile biopsy needle or biopsy needle set. Medical procedure trays and related methods may also be provided for use during aspiration of bone marrow and/or stem cell transplant procedures. Each medical procedure tray may include a containment bag or sterile sleeve. A coupler assembly, one or more sharps protectors, a biopsy sample ejector and/or associated ejector funnel may also be included.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: VIDACARE CORPORATIONInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Robert W. Titkemeyer, Matthew T. Harmon
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Publication number: 20140142577Abstract: An apparatus and method for penetrating bone marrow is provided. The apparatus may include a housing such as a handheld body, a penetrator assembly, a connector that releasably attaches the penetrator assembly to a drill shaft, a gear mechanism, a motor and a power supply and associated circuitry operable to power the motor. The penetrator assembly may include a removable inner trocar and an outer penetrator or needle. It may also include a grooved trocar that allows bone chips to be expelled as the apparatus is inserted into bone marrow. Various connectors are provided to attach the penetrator assembly to the drill shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: VidaCare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Patent number: 8715287Abstract: An apparatus and method for penetrating the bone marrow is provided. The apparatus includes a housing, a penetrator assembly, operable to penetrate the bone marrow, a connector operable to releasably attach the penetrator assembly to a drill shaft, the drill shaft operable to connect the penetrator assembly to a gear assembly, a gear assembly operable to engage and rotate the drill shaft, a motor operable to engage the reduction gear assembly and drive the penetrator into the bone marrow by rotation of the drill shaft, and a power supply and associated circuitry operable to power the motor. The apparatus and method may be adapted to insert a probe through the skull and into the brain.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Patent number: 8690791Abstract: An apparatus and method for harvesting bone and bone marrow are provided. The apparatus may include a driver operable to be releasably engaged with an intraosseous device. The intraosseous device may include a cannula having a first end operable to penetrate bone and bone marrow and to allow retrieval of portions of bone and/or bone marrow. The cannula may have a second end operable to be releasably engaged with bone marrow sampling equipment. The apparatus may include a removable trocar. The removable trocar may have an inner channel operable to convey portions of bone and/or bone marrow. The removable trocar may have an inner channel and a side port communicating with the inner channel. The removable trocar may have a first end operable to penetrate bone and bone marrow.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Patent number: 8684978Abstract: Apparatus for delivering a quantity of fluid to bone marrow of a bone or providing access to remove fluids from a target site is provided. The apparatus may include a driver, a plunger operating and cartridge assembly mechanism, a cartridge assembly having a fluid reservoir and a bone penetrating needle.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Charles M. Schwimmer, Robert A. Wilk
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Patent number: 8668698Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided to remove biopsy specimens from a bone and/or associated bone marrow using a powered drive and an intraosseous (IO) needle set. The powered driver may rotate the IO needle set at an optimum speed to obtain a biopsy sample of bone and/or bone marrow. Apparatus and methods may also be provided for aspiration of bone marrow and/or stem cell transplant procedures. The apparatus may include a powered driver, a coupler assembly, a containment bag or sterile sleeve and various IO needles and IO needle sets with associated hubs and/or hub assemblies. Each IO needle set may include a cannula or catheter and an associated trocar stylet with respective tips operable to penetrate a bone and/or bone marrow with minimum trauma to a patient. Each hub assembly may be used to releasably dispose a respective stylet within an associated generally hollow cannula. Some coupler assemblies and/or hub assemblies may also be used with manual drivers.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Robert W. Titkemeyer, Christopher Brian Kilcoin, Matthew T. Harmon, Bradford Hughes Craig
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Patent number: 8656929Abstract: Medical procedure trays and related methods are provided to accommodate joining a first non-sterile medical device with a second sterile medical device and maintaining required sterilization of the second sterile medical device to perform an associated medical procedure. One example of such medical procedures includes biopsy of a bone and/or associated bone marrow using a non-sterile powered drive and a sterile biopsy needle or biopsy needle set. Medical procedure trays and related methods may also be provided for use during aspiration of bone marrow and/or stem cell transplant procedures. Each medical procedure tray may include a containment bag or sterile sleeve. A coupler assembly, one or more sharps protectors, a biopsy sample ejector and/or associated ejector funnel may also be included.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Robert W. Titkemeyer, Matthew T. Harmon
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Patent number: 8641715Abstract: An apparatus for penetrating the bone marrow of a bone is provided. The apparatus includes a handle having a drive shaft, a connector having a first end operable to connect to a drive shaft and a second end operable to connect to a penetrator hub and a penetrator hub having a penetrator that accesses the bone marrow.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Patent number: 8506568Abstract: Penetrator assemblies that include an outer penetrator and a removable inner trocar. In some of the penetrator assemblies, the removable inner trocar has a handle including a surface with a series of discs formed along a longitudinal axis, and the outer penetrator has a flange operable to engage an insertion site proximate the bone marrow. Some of the penetrator assemblies include a connector having a recess extending toward the cutting tip and through which a longitudinal axis of the outer penetrator extends, the recess configured to receive a portion of a shaft to enable rotation of the penetrator assembly by a powered apparatus or power drill.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventor: Larry J. Miller
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Patent number: 8480632Abstract: Apparatus for delivering a quantity of fluid to bone marrow of a bone or providing access to remove fluids from a target site is provided. The apparatus may include a driver, a plunger operating and cartridge assembly mechanism, a cartridge assembly having a fluid reservoir and a bone penetrating needle.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Vidacare CorporationInventors: Larry J. Miller, David S. Bolleter, Charles M. Schwimmer, Robert A. Wilk