US 11,849,991 B2
Integrity testing method and apparatus for delivering vapor to the uterus
Robert Bilgor Peliks, San Francisco, CA (US); Donnell William Gurskis, Belmont, CA (US); Steven Robert Bacich, Half Moon Bay, CA (US); and Uriel Hiram Chee, Santa Cruz, CA (US)
Assigned to Aegea Medical Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by AEGEA MEDICAL INC., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/141,820.
Application 17/141,820 is a continuation of application No. 15/608,743, filed on May 30, 2017, granted, now 10,881,442.
Application 15/608,743 is a continuation of application No. 13/648,132, filed on Oct. 9, 2012, granted, now 9,662,060, issued on May 30, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/544,890, filed on Oct. 7, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0330368 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 18/04 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/03 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 18/04 (2013.01) [A61B 5/035 (2013.01); A61B 5/4325 (2013.01); A61B 5/6847 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00285 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00559 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/048 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
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1. A method of performing a procedure on a uterus of a patient, the method comprising:
inserting a uterine ablation device into the uterus of the patient;
delivering fluid or gas from an inflow lumen of the uterine ablation device into the uterus;
while delivering the fluid or the gas from the inflow lumen:
removing some of the gas or the fluid through an outflow lumen of the uterine ablation device; and
measuring a flow rate of the fluid or the gas flowing through the inflow lumen; and
in response to detecting that the flow rate of the fluid or the gas flowing through the inflow lumen is above a patency flow rate threshold value while removing some of the gas or the fluid through the outflow lumen, determining that the uterine ablation device is not clogged or embedded in tissue.