Patents Examined by Catherine Cogut
  • Patent number: 5891101
    Abstract: A surgical site chemical dispensing system for dispensing a liquid chemical agent, such as an antibiotic, anesthetic, growth factor, hormone, anti-neoplastic agent, or the like, directly onto a site of a surgical procedure. The system includes at least one bladder formed from a pair of thin sections of a flexible material to have an internal cavity that connects to an open tube wherethrough the liquid chemical agent is passed, under pressure, into the bladder. The liquid chemical agent passes, as a low volume flow, through at least one hole formed through a bladder section of material and onto the surgical procedure site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: MedicineLodge, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Wilcox, E. Marlowe Goble, Alan Chervitz