US 12,458,399 B2
Postpartum uterine hemorrhage device
Andy H. Uchida, Los Altos, CA (US); Piyush Arora, Fremont, CA (US); Amelia Degenkolb, San Luis Obispo, CA (US); Sara Della Ripa, San Luis Obispo, CA (US); Jan Segnitz, Morgan Hill, CA (US); and Nathan Bair, San Luis Obispo, CA (US)
Assigned to Alydia Health, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/311,724
Filed by ALYDIA HEALTH, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/065504
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/123525, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/861,233, filed on Jun. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/777,642, filed on Dec. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0022916 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/42 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/30 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/4241 (2013.01) [A61B 17/12099 (2013.01); A61B 17/12136 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00557 (2013.01); A61B 2017/12004 (2013.01); A61B 2017/306 (2013.01); A61B 2017/4216 (2013.01); A61B 2090/08021 (2016.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An anti-hemorrhaging device, comprising:
a proximal portion comprising a shaft housing a central vacuum channel and a connector at a proximal opening configured to connect the central vacuum channel to a vacuum source;
a distal portion connected to the proximal portion; the distal portion comprising:
a first elongate tube having a first vacuum channel;
a second elongate tube having a second vacuum channel, the first vacuum channel and the second vacuum channel being in fluidic communication with the central vacuum channel of the proximal portion; the second elongate tube joined with and extending side-by-side in parallel to the first elongate tube and defining at least one crevice in an outer surface of the distal portion extending along a longitudinal axis; and
a plurality of holes positioned along the at least one crevice and extending from the outer surface to an inner surface of both the first channel and the second-channel, wherein activation of the vacuum source is configured to pull vacuum through the central vacuum channel of the proximal portion, and the first vacuum channel, the second vacuum channel and the plurality of holes of the distal portion so as to collapse a uterus upon insertion of the device into the uterus; and
a seal located on the longitudinal axis between the proximal portion and the distal portion.