US 12,005,216 B2
Esophageal deviator
Troy Tegg, Elk River, MN (US); and Salo Arias, Brooklyn Park, MN (US)
Assigned to ST. JUDE MEDICAL, CARDIOLOGY DIVISION, INC., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/127,336.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,503, filed on Mar. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275788 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 29/00 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 29/00 (2013.01) [A61M 25/0108 (2013.01); A61M 25/0136 (2013.01); A61M 25/0147 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0079 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0166 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3368 (2013.01); A61M 2210/105 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device for displacing an esophagus of a subject during a medical procedure, the medical device comprising:
a handle assembly including a wire tensioner component and an adjustment knob;
an elongate shaft coupled to the handle assembly, an outermost wall of the elongate shaft defining a lumen, the elongate shaft including a deflectable section;
a first wire coupled to the adjustment knob and extending from the adjustment knob through the lumen to at least a distal end portion of the deflectable section; and
a second wire coupled to the wire tensioner component and extending from the wire tensioner component to at least the distal end portion of the deflectable section, the second wire having a deflectable extraluminal section where the second wire exits the lumen of the elongate shaft through an opening, the deflectable extraluminal section configured to deflect independently of the deflectable section, wherein the second wire reenters the lumen through a second opening, wherein the opening forms a first seal around the second wire and the second opening forms a second seal around the second wire, wherein the first seal and the second seal are configured to prevent fluid exchange through the opening and the second opening.