Cannula configured to deliver test stimulation

    公开(公告)号:US11534200B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US16544105

    申请日:2019-08-19

    申请人: Medtronic, Inc.

    摘要: The disclosure is directed to an implant tool and cannula used to facilitate the implantation of a medical device into a patient. The implant tool includes a housing that is held by a user and a needle attached to the housing. The cannula may be positioned over the needle and delivered to a target tissue within the patient. The cannula includes an electrode at a distal portion to deliver test stimulation to confirm the location of the target site or placement of the implant tool relative to the target site before removing the needle of the implant tool. In this manner, the cannula may be repositioned within the patient until the position of the implant tool and cannula relative to the target site is verified with the test stimulation.

    Methods, tools, and assemblies for implantation of medical leads having distal tip anchors

    公开(公告)号:US11123546B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US16150175

    申请日:2018-10-02

    申请人: MEDTRONIC, INC.

    发明人: Eric H. Bonde

    IPC分类号: A61B17/34 A61N1/05

    摘要: Medical leads include distal tip anchors that are retained by fixation mechanisms of implantation tools. The fixation mechanism may include a fixed body that has features retaining the distal tip anchor. The fixation mechanism may include a movable body that can apply tension to the distal tip anchor to force the distal tip anchor to be released from the features of the fixed body. The movable body may include an axial portion that is received by an axial hole of the fixed body to allow for axial movement of the movable body to release the distal tip anchor. The fixation mechanism may instead include an elongated flexible body that passes through the distal tip anchor and is attached to the fixed body. Tension applied to the elongated body creates a releasing motion of the distal tip anchor to free the distal tip anchor from the features of the fixed body.

    Medical leads having a distal body and an openly coiled filar

    公开(公告)号:US11013915B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US16139641

    申请日:2018-09-24

    申请人: MEDTRONIC, INC.

    IPC分类号: A61N1/05 A61B17/34

    摘要: Medical leads have one or more openly coiled filars and a distal body coupled to the openly coiled filars. The openly coiled filars provide a lead with compliance and elasticity while the distal body provides the firmness needed for placement and support of the electrodes. The openly coiled filars may transition to a linear distal portion that extends to the distal body, and the distal body may have proximal tines that fold proximally to become adjacent to the linear distal portion of the filars. The openly coiled filars may instead extend to the distal body and the proximal tines may be laterally arced to then fold against the lateral surface of the coiled filars. The tines may fold distally during explantation to allow the distal body to release and exit the body.

    IMPLANTABLE URINARY TRACT VALVE
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180000576A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-04

    申请号:US15707472

    申请日:2017-09-18

    申请人: Medtronic, Inc.

    IPC分类号: A61F2/00

    摘要: A urinary tract valve includes an expandable valve element positionable within a bladder of a patient via a urinary tract of the patient in a collapsed configuration. The expandable valve element is configured to transition from the collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration after being positioned within the bladder of the patient. The expandable valve element includes a ferromagnetic element that facilitates selective control of the expandable valve element with a magnetic field between an open position and a closed position when positioned within the bladder of the patient. In the closed position, the expandable valve element is configured to seal an internal urethral opening of the patient. In the open position, the expandable valve element is configured to allow urine to pass from the bladder of the patient, through an internal urethral opening of the patient and into a urethra of the patient.

    CONDITIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170173327A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-22

    申请号:US15390168

    申请日:2016-12-23

    申请人: Medtronic, Inc.

    IPC分类号: A61N1/36

    摘要: In general, the disclosure describes techniques for providing conditional electrical stimulation to a patient for pelvic health. An implantable medical device (IMD) may adjust the delivery cycle of the electrical stimulation applied to a patient in response to receiving a delivery cycle parameter associated with one or more of the following: a time in a time schedule, a control device output from a control device, and physiological information from a physiological information sensing device. As an example, the IMD may monitor a status of one or more inputs of the IMD and adjust the delivery cycle of the electrical stimulation applied to the patient based on the status of the input(s).