US 12,004,729 B2
Method and system for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax
Jordan Addison, Chandler, AZ (US); Nicholas Mowrey, Phoenix, AZ (US); and Heather Storm, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Franklin Lakes, NJ (US)
Filed by Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Franklin Lakes, NJ (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/537,927.
Application 17/537,927 is a division of application No. 16/657,260, filed on Oct. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,219,435.
Prior Publication US 2022/0087667 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61L 24/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/00491 (2013.01) [A61B 17/3421 (2013.01); A61L 24/046 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00495 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00557 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00809 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3419 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax, comprising:
providing a cannula having a pair of balloons, the pair of balloons including a first balloon longitudinally spaced from a second balloon along the cannula;
inserting the cannula along an access opening and through pleural layers of a patient, with the first balloon and the second balloon of the pair of balloons respectively positioned on opposite sides of the pleural layers;
inflating the pair of balloons with a first amount of a two-component sealant to compress the pleural layers together; and
inflating the pair of balloons with a second amount of the two-component sealant that is sufficient to rupture the pair of balloons so as to comingle a first sealant component and a second sealant component of the two-component sealant at the site of the pleural layers so as to adhere the pleural layers together.