Anti-Extravasation Surgical Portal Plug
The devices and methods shown provide for the minimization of extravasation during arthroscopic surgery. The anti-extravasation surgical portal plug allows a surgeon to drain excess fluids from the soft tissue surrounding the surgical field during arthroscopic surgical procedures.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 14/970,221 filed Dec. 15, 2015 which is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 14/183,178 filed Feb. 18, 2014, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,211,139 which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/437,148 filed May 18, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,652,090.
FIELD OF THE INVENTIONSThe inventions described below relates to the field arthroscopic surgery and more specifically, to fluid management during arthroscopic shoulder surgery.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONSDuring minimally invasive surgeries, surgical instruments such as trocars, cannulas, and optical medical devices, including endoscopes, cystoscopes, arthroscopes, laparoscopes, etc., are inserted through small incisions or surgical portals in a patient's body or body cavity and manipulated to perform surgical procedures within the patient.
Minimally invasive surgical procedures are safer than open surgery and result in quicker patient recovery, shorter hospital stays, and lower health care costs. Accordingly, minimizing invasiveness continues to be of importance, and there is a continuing need for devices and methods that achieve this objective.
Areas that have benefited from minimally invasive surgical techniques include shoulder and knee surgery. Shoulder and knee surgery have evolved over the last several years from being open surgical procedures to arthroscopic surgical procedures. This evolution is the result of technological advances in equipment, instruments and implants.
During surgery, surgical portals are made into the patient to facilitate surgery and fluid is introduced into the surgical site to expand the joint and control bleeding. One concern involving arthroscopic surgery includes fluid leaking out of open unused surgical portals when surgical instruments are removed. Open portals tend to leak irrigation fluid which gets on the surgery room floor and the surgeon himself. Another concern involving arthroscopic surgery includes extravasation.
Extravasation is the collection of interstitial fluid such as blood, irrigation fluids or medications into tissue surrounding an infusion site. Fluid escaping into the soft tissues of the shoulder and the periscapular region can have adverse effects on the patient. Some of these effects include tracheal compression, the accumulation of blood or clots in the joint (hemarthrosis), the forming of blood clots in veins (thrombophlebitis), arterial injury, nerve injury, the compression of blood vessels and nerves surrounding the joint (compartment syndrome), and infection. These effects cause longer recovery time as well as pain and discomfort in patients. Extravasation occurring during surgery can also cause premature collapse of the surgical field forcing surgeons to rush procedures.
Another concern during the performance of surgical procedures is the tendency of surgical instruments to be easily pushed out or removed from surgical portals. Many retention devices have been used to prevent the easy removal of devices during surgery. These devices and methods, however, can cause additional damage and trauma to tissue surrounding the surgical portal. Present tissue retention systems use a series of pointed ridges or threads disposed on the surface of arthroscopic surgical instrument to prevent the instruments from being easily removed from a surgical portal once they are disposed in the surgical portal.
Because of fluid leakage and the effects caused by extravasation and the trauma caused by traditional retention systems, devices and methods are needed to temporarily close unused surgical portals, reduce extravasation during arthroscopic surgery reduce and the trauma potentially caused by retention systems.
SUMMARYThe devices and methods shown below provide for the minimization of fluid leakage and extravasation during arthroscopic surgery. The portal plug allows a surgeon to temporarily close a surgical portal while draining fluids from the soft tissue surrounding the surgical field.
The portal plug is a multi-lumen tube or sheath disposed about an inner core. The proximal portion of the sheath is provided with a handle or grip and a drainage port. The body or central portion of the sheath is provided with a plurality of drainage apertures. Each drainage aperture communicates with one or more of the drainage lumens inside the sheath, thereby allowing fluid to drain from the tissue surrounding the surgical site to sources or sinks located outside the patient. The portal plug allows the surgeon to temporarily close a surgical portal while reducing the amount of fluid extravasation occurring in surrounding tissue. The outer surface of the central portion of the sheath of the portal plug may be embossed with a plurality of cup-shaped depressions, concave pockets or ridges that compose the retention system. When the anti-extravasation sheath is in use, a partial vacuum is produced when tissue surrounding a surgical portal comes in contact with the retention system disposed on the outer surface of the sheath.
During arthroscopic shoulder surgery, the surgeon introduces the arthroscope into the shoulder via a first portal in order to visualize the surgical field. A trimming instrument is introduced through a second portal to remove or trim tissue that the surgeon determines should be removed or trimmed. Optionally, an irrigating instrument may be introduced through a third portal in order to distend the joint, and/or irrigate the surgical field to maintain a clear view. Other arthroscopic instruments used in arthroscopic surgery include endoscopes, awls, picks or shavers. When a surgical instrument is removed from a portal, the portal plug may then be inserted into the surgical portal to prevent fluid leakage and prevent extravasation.
When the portal plug 2 is in use, inner core 9 containing longitudinal grooves is disposed in the central lumen 10 of the sheath. The core 9 may or may not be covered by a secondary protective sheath prior to insertion. Once inserted, the outer surface 29 of the core frictionally engages the inner surface 28 of the sheath. The force of the outer surface 29 of the core pushes against the inner surface of the sheath. Outer drainage lumens 33, 34, 35 and 36 are created by the flutes 24 and the inner surface of the outer wall of the sheath. The seals formed by the contact between the sheath and the outer surface of the core prevent fluids from flowing between the outer drainage lumens 33, 34, 35 and 36. The outer drainage lumens 33, 34, 35 and 36 facilitate the outflow of fluids from tissue surrounding a surgical site through the drainage apertures in the central portion of the sheath. When a user wants to stop or reduce the outflow of fluid from an open surgical portal not in use by another surgical instrument, the user inserts the portal plug 2 into the surgical portal. The portal plug is placed in fluid communication with tissue surrounding the surgical field through the drainage apertures 21 in the sheath. The outflow of fluid is regulated or stopped by rotating the inner core within the sheath as shown in
The drainage of fluid from tissue may also be regulated by using a portal plug with an alternative method of control.
The outer surface of the proximal section of the plug is corrugated or provided with ridges 53 to prevent the sheath or instrument from being unintentionally forced out of the operating field. The ridges of the tissue retention feature are circumferentially disposed around the plug and may be in the shape of straight ridges extending radially outward as illustrated in
The portal plug 2 can be part of a complete fluid management system comprising a fluid source, vacuum source, arthroscopic surgical pump and control system. An over pressure valve can be operably coupled to the plug to allow a drainage lumen in the device to open and drain the joint if the joint is over-pressurized by an arthroscopic pump.
While the preferred embodiments of the devices and methods have been described in reference to the environment in which they were developed, they are merely illustrative of the principles of the inventions. Other embodiments and configurations may be devised without departing from the spirit of the inventions and the scope of the appended claims.
Claims
1. A method of performing arthroscopic surgery, said method comprising:
- forming a surgical portal in the body of a patient;
- providing an arthroscopic instrument suitable for performing an arthroscopic surgical procedure;
- inserting the arthroscopic instrument into the surgical portal;
- performing an arthroscopic surgical procedure;
- providing a surgical portal plug, said plug comprising: a close-ended sheath characterized by a distal portion, a central portion, a proximal portion, an outer surface, and a central lumen; a control valve disposed on the proximal portion of the close-ended sheath in fluid communication with the central lumen; a plurality of drainage apertures disposed on the central portion of the sheath on the sheath outer surface in fluid communication with the central lumen; and a retention system disposed about an outer surface of the sheath;
- removing the arthroscopic instrument;
- inserting the portal plug into the surgical portal.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the retention system comprises a plurality of retention features consisting of a series of ridges circumferentially disposed around the proximal portion of the sheath.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the retention system comprises separate devices coupled to the outer surface of the sheath.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the retention system comprises a plurality of retention features consisting of cup-shaped depressions with atraumatic edges, each of the plurality of cup-shaped depressions positioned to surround each of the plurality of drainage apertures.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the retention system comprises a plurality of retention features consisting of ridges disposed around the proximal portion of the sheath, wherein the retention feature ridges are in the shape of a threaded screw.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the surgical portal plug further comprises a drainage port in fluid communication with the control valve.
Type: Application
Filed: Dec 23, 2016
Publication Date: Apr 20, 2017
Applicant: Cannuflow, Inc. (Campbell, CA)
Inventor: Theodore R. Kucklick (Campbell, CA)
Application Number: 15/390,180