US 12,004,944 B2
Surgical device for storage and placement of grafts
Philip Douglas Weston, Ripon (GB)
Assigned to Network Medical Products Limited, Ripon (GB)
Appl. No. 17/628,479
Filed by Network Medical Products Limited, Ripon (GB)
PCT Filed Jul. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/GB2020/051713
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 19, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/014127, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1910386 (GB), filed on Jul. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0273421 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/14 (2006.01); A61F 2/16 (2006.01); A61F 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/148 (2013.01) [A61F 2/1451 (2015.04); A61F 2/1678 (2013.01); A61F 9/0017 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical device comprising a handle for releasable attachment to a cartridge adapted to hold an endothelial corneal implant in a scrolled or double coiled configuration, the handle having a forward end for rigid releasable attachment to the cartridge, a rearward end and a gripping portion between said forward and rearward ends, wherein the gripping portion is substantially planar so as to facilitate being gripped between finger and thumb, wherein the handle incorporates a first flexible fluid conduit for releasable fluid connection to the cartridge at the forward end of the handle;
wherein the first flexible fluid conduit comprises a length of flexible polymer tubing;
wherein a first end of the flexible polymer tubing is located at the forward end of the handle and configured releasably to connect with the cartridge when the cartridge is fitted to the forward end of the handle; and
wherein the first flexible fluid conduit is configured to transmit liquid through the first flexible fluid conduit and through the cartridge when the cartridge is fitted to the forward end of the handle, thereby to eject the endothelial corneal implant from the cartridge solely by way of liquid flow and into an anterior chamber of a patient's eye along with a portion of the liquid.