US 12,350,097 B2
Devices, systems, and methods for trans-vaginal, ultrasound-guided hysteroscopic surgical procedures
Nikolai D. Begg, Wellesley, MA (US); Chad A. Pickering, Woburn, MA (US); Lisa M. Quealy, Dracut, MA (US); Jordan A. Whisler, Brookline, MA (US); Dalia P. Leibowitz, Cambridge, MA (US); Timothy J. Wood, Woburn, MA (US); Alyssa P. Brown, Pittsburgh, PA (US); Bradley T. Marcinek, Westford, MA (US); and Scott J. Prior, Branford, CT (US)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/116,918.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/958,045, filed on Jan. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0204910 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/303 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01)
CPC A61B 8/4209 (2013.01) [A61B 1/303 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4444 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 17/12136 (2013.01); A61B 17/32002 (2013.01); A61M 25/1002 (2013.01); A61M 25/10181 (2013.11)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical system, comprising:
an ultrasound device, including:
a frame defined by first and second rails spaced apart relative to one another, the frame including a longitudinal section defining a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal section having a distal end portion; and
an ultrasound sensor assembly configured to enable ultrasound imaging of a two-dimensional field of view in a viewing direction, the ultrasound sensor assembly being attached to the distal end portion of the longitudinal section of the frame, wherein the ultrasound sensor assembly is disposed in fixed orientation relative to the longitudinal axis with the viewing direction of the two-dimensional field of view disposed at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis and with the longitudinal axis extending coplanarly through the two dimensional field of view, wherein the distal end portion of the longitudinal section of the frame is configured for insertion through a vagina of a patient to position the ultrasound sensor assembly adjacent to or in abutment with a cervix of the patient, wherein the longitudinal section of the frame and the ultrasound sensor assembly cooperate to define a hollow interior extending along the longitudinal axis, the hollow interior closed at a distal end of the hollow interior, closed on opposing sides of the hollow interior by the first and second rails, and open along the top and the bottom of the hollow interior along the longitudinal axis; and
a surgical instrument configured for insertion between the first and second rails at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis such that the surgical instrument extends into the hollow interior through one of the top or the bottom of the hollow interior and out of the hollow interior from another of the top or the bottom of the hollow interior, the surgical instrument configured for insertion, from between the first and second rails through the vagina of the patient, through the cervix of the patient, and into a uterus of the patient, wherein the first and second rails constrain transverse movement of the surgical instrument to maintain the surgical instrument in coplanar relation relative to the two-dimensional field of view of the ultrasound sensor assembly.