US 12,213,679 B2
Method of applying hemostatic or tissue healing agent to wet surfaces
Meghan Elizabeth Soens, Paris (FR); Andrew Schaubhut, Bolton, MA (US); Caroline Riedel, Westford, MA (US); and Sergey Kantsevoy, Owing Mills, MD (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,458.
Application 18/145,458 is a continuation of application No. 16/915,899, filed on Jun. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,559,311.
Application 16/915,899 is a continuation of application No. 15/280,345, filed on Sep. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,736,638, issued on Aug. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/238,321, filed on Oct. 7, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2023/0131041 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/12181 (2013.01) [A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61B 17/00491 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00818 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00884 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00893 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00951 (2013.01); A61B 2017/12004 (2013.01); A61B 2017/1205 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for applying a tissue healing agent to a target tissue, comprising:
inserting an insertion member into a living body to the target tissue to be treated, the insertion member extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end and including a channel extending therethrough, a delivery element housed in the insertion member in a closed configuration in which the delivery element is compressed;
placing the delivery element distally relative to the insertion member to an open configuration in which the delivery element expands to be substantially planar, the delivery element including first and second opposing surfaces, the first surface including the tissue healing agent formed in a sheet configuration and disposed thereon via a release mechanism from the first surface including an element slidable along the first surface between the first surface and the tissue healing agent to release the tissue healing agent from the first surface; and
applying the tissue healing agent against the target tissue to be treated.