US 12,185,909 B2
System and method for cleansing segments of a luminal network
William S. Krimsky, Forest Hill, MD (US)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/029,263.
Application 17/029,263 is a division of application No. 15/700,243, filed on Sep. 11, 2017, granted, now 10,799,092.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/396,322, filed on Sep. 19, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0000330 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/015 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 10/00 (2006.01); A61B 10/02 (2006.01); A61M 13/00 (2006.01); A61M 16/04 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00082 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00085 (2013.01); A61B 1/015 (2013.01); A61B 1/018 (2013.01); A61B 5/062 (2013.01); A61B 10/0045 (2013.01); A61B 10/02 (2013.01); A61M 13/00 (2013.01); A61M 16/0404 (2014.02); A61M 16/0459 (2014.02); A61M 16/0479 (2014.02); A61M 25/007 (2013.01); A61M 25/1011 (2013.01); A61B 6/486 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00809 (2013.01); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2072 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3925 (2016.02); A61K 9/0073 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1052 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of instilling a therapy medium into portions of a luminal network comprising:
generating a model of a luminal network based on images of the luminal network;
determining a location of a target in the luminal network;
guiding a catheter to the target, the catheter including a medium channel and at least one medium outlet in fluid communication with the medium channel for delivering a therapy medium to the target;
isolating an area of the luminal network around the target by inflating a first balloon coupled to the catheter and inflating a second balloon coupled to the catheter distal to the first balloon such that the isolated area is disposed between the first and second inflated balloons;
passing air through a bypass channel of the catheter, the bypass channel extending distal to the isolated area and extending through the catheter distally beyond a distal end of the medium channel, wherein a distal-most end of the catheter forms a distal opening of the bypass channel through which the air exits the bypass channel for delivery into the luminal network distal to the isolated area of the luminal network;
dispensing, via the at least one medium outlet, the therapy medium within the isolated area of the luminal network to the target;
removing a volume of the therapy medium from the isolated area of the luminal network;
measuring the volume of therapy medium removed from the isolated area of the luminal network; and
determining whether the volume of the therapy medium removed from the isolated areas of the luminal network equals or exceeds a threshold volume based on a volume of the therapy medium dispensed to the isolated area of the luminal network.