WO1999051153A2 - A cannula of changeable length and shape - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B1/00—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
- A61B1/005—Flexible endoscopes
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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- A61B1/00—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
- A61B1/00064—Constructional details of the endoscope body
- A61B1/00071—Insertion part of the endoscope body
- A61B1/00078—Insertion part of the endoscope body with stiffening means
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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- A61B1/00—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
- A61B1/00147—Holding or positioning arrangements
- A61B1/00154—Holding or positioning arrangements using guiding arrangements for insertion
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B1/00—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
- A61B1/005—Flexible endoscopes
- A61B1/0051—Flexible endoscopes with controlled bending of insertion part
- A61B1/0057—Constructional details of force transmission elements, e.g. control wires
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B17/00—Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets
- A61B17/34—Trocars; Puncturing needles
- A61B17/3417—Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
- A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
- A61M25/0105—Steering means as part of the catheter or advancing means; Markers for positioning
- A61M25/0119—Eversible catheters
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B17/00—Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets
- A61B17/34—Trocars; Puncturing needles
- A61B17/3417—Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating
- A61B17/3421—Cannulas
- A61B17/3439—Cannulas with means for changing the inner diameter of the cannula, e.g. expandable
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M25/00—Catheters; Hollow probes
- A61M25/01—Introducing, guiding, advancing, emplacing or holding catheters
- A61M25/0105—Steering means as part of the catheter or advancing means; Markers for positioning
- A61M25/0116—Steering means as part of the catheter or advancing means; Markers for positioning self-propelled, e.g. autonomous robots
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- the invention refers to a cannula of changeable length and shape, which can be used in medical application during the penetration of various devices, e.g. endoscopes, into the living systems as well as other activities, which necessitate the penetration into a medium, vulnerable to mechanical intervention and/or is without well-shaped confining walls.
- various devices e.g. endoscopes
- tubes, tubular elements (1-7) and devices e.g. endoscopes, including tubes and tubular elements (8, 9), which are characterised by the fact that after penetrating into the body along the existing lumens - oesophagus, blood vessels, etc. - they ensure some protection from mechanical traumas to the surrounding tissues during the operation of the devices.
- a disadvantage of the existing tubes, tubular elements and devices containing tubes and tubular elements is the fact that during their penetration into the living system as well as during their removal, they cause considerable traumas due to the friction between their outside surface and the medium of penetration and particularly to the side pressure exerted by the sections where there are curves.
- the patent /13/ proposes a new principle of action of a three-dimensional controllable cannula according to which the leading instrument is placed in a lumen of the cannula itself.
- the lumen is formed during the penetration into the body without having to use ready natural ways and operates on the principle of snail horns - protruding and retracting.
- the patent does not propose a construction working on this principle, neither the moving force which will open and close the cannula.
- the aim of the invention is to create a cannula- of changeable length and shape, which is to penetrate the living system not only through existing orifices and which is to reduce to a minimum the traumas to the surrounding medium e.g. the human body.
- the task is solved by a device in which the cannula is formed at entering the working medium only through lengthening, which enters the working medium only through lengthening the front end, which takes the turns in any direction only through growing in the same direction and which is taken out of the surrounding medium only through shortening of the front end, keeping static all the time in respect to the medium and keeping stable its shape.
- a flexible elastic tube has been created, including components by which it can be reversibly hardened and which is partly turned so that two concentrically located tubes are formed.
- the interior tube I and this cannula 2 have walls passing from on into the other and the interior wall of the interior tube becomes the exterior wall of the cannula 2 and respectively the exterior wall of the interior tube becomes the interior wall of the cannula.
- the elongation of the cannula 2 is realised through skidding the interior tube in the direction of the place of its transition into the cannula.
- the shortening of the cannula is realised through skidding its interior tube in the opposite direction.
- the skidding of the interior tube 1 is effected by pushing or pulling several guiding bands 8, longitudinally attached to its interior wall and included in a groove 7 along the length of the device, e.g. the endoscope 5, for, whose penetration into the surrounding medium the cannula is constructed.
- the bands 8 can impart their movement along the entire length of the interior tube 1 under the impact of the operator, applying the necessary force at the beginning of the interior tube outside the medium. In which the cannula 2 penetrates and the endoscope 5 inserted in it.
- the bands 8 have enough flexibility to follow the bending at the point of transition from the interior tube 1 into the cannula 2.
- the turns are obtained by advanced pushing of the bands from the outside of the turn and delayed pushing of the same bands from the inside of the turn in the condition of cannula elongation.
- the sections from the bands 8, passing into the composition of the cannula 2 after leaving along the guiding grooves 7 become static together with the newly built section of the cannula, immediately after the point of transitions Description of Drawings
- the cannula 2 is static in respect to the surrounding medium with the exception of its end section, which is created at the point of transition of the interior tube 1 into the cannula 2 and thus the friction in this medium is eliminated, both in the cannula itself and of the endoscope 5 inserted in it.
- the cannula unlike the interior tube 1, has a stable shape, i.e. it is relatively hard, that is why in the turns, it and the endoscope inserted in it don't press the surrounding medium laterally.
- the cannula described above does not traumatise the surrounding medium either by longitudinal friction, or by lateral pressure, except in the place and at the moment of elongation, respectively shortening at the end of this cannula.
- Example 1 A cannula 2, of changeable length and shape, chown in fig. 1 and 2, concentrically including a soft tube 1 built of double walls, between which is located a substance 3 in molten state and the same substance in solid state 4, with welting temperature several degrees higher than the temperature of the surrounding medium. In which the cannula penetrates.
- Motive bands 8 located along the length of the interior wall of the interior tube and respectively along the exterior side of the cannula. They are included in the grooves 7 of the endoscope 5, which grooves end at the periphery of the endoscope head 6. The endoscope moves forward or backward at the rate of elongation or respectively of shortening of the cannula.
- the function of the endoscope head which covers the section of the cannula, is to facilitate the transition of the interior tube into the cannula and vice versa and to reduce to a minimum the traumas to the surrounding medium during the penetration of the growing end of the cannula in it.
- the elongation of the cannula is effected by skidding the interior flexible tube between the endoscope and the cannula in the direction of the growing end of the cannula, the turning of the soft tube under the endoscope head under the impact of the motive bands, which at this point move apart and turn the direction of their movement at 180 D and turning this section into the end section of the cannula.
- the softness of the interior tube is maintained by continuous heating of the melt, included in it through the heaters 9, built in the surface layer or the endoscope and in the inside wall of its head.
- the hardening of the end section of the cannula is effected through crystallisation of the melt and its transformation into a solid substance because of the heat liberation from the melt into the surrounding medium.
- the endoscope moves towards the cannula exit, its head presses the pain of transition, the surface layers of the crystallised substance melt, the respective section of the cannula softens and its transition into the end section of the interior tube becomes possible.
- This transition is accompanied by pulling the motive bands in the direction of the cannula exit and skidding the interior tube in the direction of this exit.
- Example 2 A cannula, shown in fig. 3, similar to that described in Example 1, in which the melt and the crystallised substance are located in toroidal channels 12, included in the mass of the interior tube and respectively the cannula. lying, on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the internal tube of the cannula.
- this cannula is the facilitated movement at the point of transition and the circumstance that during the formation of the turns, the melt in pushed from the internal side of the turn towards its external side and crystallises in this state, fixing the state of the turn at the highest degree.
- Example 3 A cannula, similar to those described in Example 1 and 2, in which the hardening of the cannula is achieved by crystallisation of a minimal quantity of melt, wetting a mass of small slippery solid particles, e.g. microscopic plastic granules. The hardening of the entire mass is achieved through crystallisation of the melt wetting the solid particles.
- this cannula is that the amount of the crystallising melt is less as compared with the quantity of the total mass, which passes from a liquid into a solid state, that is why less heat energy and respectively less time are necessary both for the hardening and the softening of the mass.
- Example 4 A cannula, shown in fig. 4, similar to that described in Example 1, in which the hardening of the cannula is achieved as a result of vacuuming the space between the two walls of the tube, filled with small slippery solid particles, e.g. plastic granules 10.
- a pressing washer 11 linked with the endoscope head, which facilitates the separation of the vacuumed space between the double wall of the cannula from the space between the double wall of the internal tube, in which the pressure is normal.
- the advantage of the described cannula is the high speed of transition from liquid into solid state of the mass, filling the space between the double walls of the tubes.
- Example 5 A cannula, shown in fig. 5, similar to that described in Example 2, in which the toroidal channels 12 included in the interior tube and the cannula and lying on a plane perpendicular to their axis, represent hollow, multichamber toroids equipped with valves 13, for each chamber separately.
- the valves are situated on the external side of the interior tube and respectively the internal side of the cannula, i.e. they are facing the space between the two tubes.
- This space is divided into two parts internal and external - by a flexible tube 14, dividing the space between the two tubes and ending at the point of transition with a slide 15. The values open as a result of pressing the slide 15 at the point of transition.
- the toroids remaining unevenly swollen, in the different chambers, fix the turn condition.
- the chambers of the topmost toroid open again because the valves are pressed to the slide and after passing into the internal space between the endoscope and the interior tube, because of the vacuum they quickly get empty and cause the softening, of the respective tube section 1.
- Example 6 A cannula, shown in figures 6 and 7, similar to that described in Example 2, in which instead with toroidal channels the hardening of the cannula 2 is achieved by rings 16, attached to the internal wall of the interior tube and respectively the internal wall of the cannula, lying on a plane, perpendicular to their axis.
- the rings are reversibly collapsible in such a way that in a folded state their diameter coincides with the diameter of the interior tube, while in an unfolded state it coincides with the diameter of the cannula.
- the elements 17 are attached to the side walls of the segments 18 in recesses, restraining the movement of the elements 17 in such a way that in a folded state they form a sharp angle, and in an unfolded state - an obtuse angle, bigger than 1801:, whereas the hinges between the elements 17 are located at a radius a little bigger than the radius at which the hinges between the elements 17 and the segments 18 are located. In this position the unfolded state of the ring 16 is stable which means that a spontaneous folding at an even external pressing is not possible.
- the rings are linked with the interior tube and the cannula through the washers which can rotate freely at the pint of transition.
- the motive bands 8 are attached to the hinges between the elements 17.
- This cannula is the safety of the reversible transition from folded into unfolded state of the mechanical system.
- Example 7 A cannula, shown in fig. 8, similar to that described in Example 1, in which the hardening of the cannula is caused by the meshing of profile bodies 21 and 22 to each other in the interior between the two walls of the cannula.
- these are longitudinal bands with indented cross section of the contact surfaces, lying freely in beds, larger than them, in such a way that the concave end of the band 21 from one side gets in the concave end of the opposite band 22.
- the pressing of the bands to each other, their meshing and the hardening of the cannula is the result of the elastic deformation of the cannula walls at the transition of the interior into the cannula.
- the advantage of the described cannula is the smoothness of the external walls of the cannula and the interior tube and the safety of transition from the soft tube into the hard cannula and vice versa.
- Example 8 A cannula, shown in figures 9 and 10, similar to those described in Examples 2 and 5, in which the hollow toroids, lying on a plane perpendicular to the axes of the cannula and the interior tube are multichambered, but do not contain valves, i.e. they are quite closed and contain a liquid 23 with a temperature of boiling higher than the temperature of the surrounding medium of the cannula.
- the end of a light-conducting fibre 25 reaches the interior of each separate chamber 24.
- the fibres 25 lie along the entire length of the respective chamber up to the beginning of the interior tube, from where at command light is fed differentially to the separate fibres.
- the additional fibres 26, reaching, the surface of the internal side and the cannula between the toroids receive the light being reflected from the internal surface of the endoscope head, having reached that place through the fibres 27.
- the fibres 26 play the part of indicators, registering when the respective toroids reach the point of transition and signalling that light is to be fed to the fibres 25.
- This light causes the evaporation of the liquid 23 and the swelling and hardening of the chambers 24.
- the cannula grows in a straight line light is fed into all the chambers of the toroid, having reached the point of transition and it o
- Patent PF RU 2022518 Cl 13.02.91
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