Abstract: Devices and systems are provided that include an auxiliary electrocardiogram (ECG) assembly that can be utilized to acquire ECG data of a patient and transmit the ECG data to a handheld probe, such as an ultrasound probe. The handheld probe may include a housing and an ultrasound sensor that is at least partially surrounded by the housing. The ultrasound sensor may be located at or near a sensor face of the handheld probe. An auxiliary ECG connector is included that is at least partially exposed by the housing of the handheld probe. The auxiliary ECG connector may be utilized to electrically couple one or more auxiliary ECG leads to the handheld probe.

Abstract: A cartridge for use with a blood vessel access system and device. The cartridge includes a slideable needle mount and a slideable cannula mount, the slideable needle mount having a needle in slideable connection with a lumen of a cannula held by the needle mount. The slideable needle mount and the slideable cannula mount are removeably attachable with separate moveable platforms of a needle injector that is pivotally attached to a handheld ultrasound transceiver in signal communication with a computer processing unit connected with a monitor. Upon insonification of a patient's vasculature using the handheld ultrasound transceiver pressed against the surface of the patient, needle injection and subsequent cannulation of a targeted blood vessel appearing on the monitor is accomplished by deploying the needle and cannula from the cartridge via motorization of the moveable platforms that is initiated by the user operating a controller on the device's needle injector.

Abstract: A neuro-vasculature access system and device for placing a cannula adjacent to a nerve. The neuro-vasculature access system and device includes a needle injector pivotally attached to an ultrasound transceiver which is operated to place a sterilizable needle or needle/cannula unit within the neuro-vasculature of a patient by a single user-device operator in which the neuro-vasculature is made visible in a monitor image by ultrasound insonification. A guidance template having an expected path trajectory is overlaid on at least one of a transverse short axis, a longitudinal long axis, or a three-dimensional image of the neuro-vasculature and predicts path of the needle or needle with overlapping cannula when it undergoes movement implemented by a controller located on the needle injector. The needle injector, ultrasound transceiver, and needle or needle/cannula unit may be contained within a flexible sheath capable of being sterilized.

Abstract: An access system and device having a needle injector pivotally attached to an ultrasound transceiver is operated to place a sterilizable needle or needle/cannula unit within a blood vessel by a single user-device operator in which the blood vessel is made visible in a monitor image by ultrasound insonification. A guidance template having an expected path trajectory is overlapped on at least one of a transverse short axis, a longitudinal long axis, or a three-dimensionally imaged blood vessel that illustrates the predicted path of the needle or needle with overlapping cannula when it undergoes movement implemented by a controller located on the needle injector. In alternate embodiments the needle injector, ultrasound transceiver, and needle or needle/cannula unit may be contained within a flexible sheath that is capable of being sterilized.

Abstract: A device having a needle injector pivotally attached to an ultrasound transceiver is operated to place a sterilizable needle or needle/cannula unit within a blood vessel by a single user-device operator in which the blood vessel is made visible in a monitor image by ultrasound insonification. A guidance template is overlapped on at least one of a transverse, longitudinal, or three-dimensionally imaged blood vessel that illustrates a predicted path of the needle when it undergoes movement implemented by a controller. In alternate embodiments the needle injector, ultrasound transceiver, and needle or needle/cannula unit may be contained within a flexible sheath that is capable of being sterilized.