US 11,938,310 B2
Medical device flushing systems and methods
Lok Tin Lam, Vancouver (CA); Saar Moisa, Vancouver (CA); and Ashkan Sardari, North Vancouver (CA)
Assigned to KARDIUM INC., Burnaby (CA)
Filed by KARDIUM INC., Burnaby (CA)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/777,361.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/814,516, filed on Mar. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0282153 A1, Sep. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/08 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/16 (2006.01); A61B 50/00 (2016.01); A61B 50/36 (2016.01); A61M 5/14 (2006.01); A61M 5/36 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/36 (2013.01) [A61B 50/00 (2016.02); A61B 50/36 (2016.02); A61B 2218/001 (2013.01); A61B 2218/002 (2013.01); A61B 2218/007 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1402 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1403 (2013.01); A61M 25/00 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0019 (2013.01); A61M 2209/10 (2013.01); A61M 2210/125 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gas removal apparatus configured to receive a first amount of liquid effective to remove gas bubbles from at least a part of a medical device removably disposed in the gas removal apparatus, the gas removal apparatus comprising:
an interior chamber configured to hold the at least the first amount of liquid; and
a wall portion comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite across a thickness of the wall portion from the first surface, the first surface of the wall portion being configured to receive at least the first amount of liquid and cause the received at least the first amount of liquid to flow along the first surface of the wall portion to the interior chamber when the gas removal apparatus is arranged in a liquid receiving position, and the second surface of the wall portion defining at least part of the interior chamber,
wherein at least a portion of the second surface of the wall portion is configured to, when the gas removal apparatus is arranged in the liquid receiving position in a state where the at least the first amount of liquid is present in the interior chamber, not contact the at least the first amount of liquid present in the interior chamber, and
wherein the at least the portion of the second surface of the wall portion is configured to, when the gas removal apparatus is arranged in another position different from the liquid receiving position in the state where the at least the first amount of liquid is present in the interior chamber, contact the at least the first amount of liquid present in the interior chamber.