Steven C Stern

US Patent:

6716189, Apr 6, 2004

Filed:

Jun 8, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/328248

Inventors:

Robert Jarvik - New York NY
Daniel E. Alesi - Sherman CT
John F. Klinger - Danbury CT
Robert J. Geiste - Milford CT
Steven R. Day - Mukilteo WA
Keith Payea - Kirkland WA
Kenneth G. Hammerquist - Kirkland WA
Steven J. Stern - Issaquah WA
Francis X. Kaczynski - Bellevue WA
Mark Howansky - Wilton CT
Deborah M. Cashin - Norwalk CT

Assignee:

United States Surgical Corporation - Norwalk CT

International Classification:

A61M 3700

US Classification:

604 616, 604 401, 604 611, 604 65, 604 67

Abstract:

A method for providing at least partial bypass of the heart to supplement the pumping function of the heart to thereby enable the surgeon to perform various surgical procedures thereon includes providing a circulatory assist system having a portable extracorporeal axial flow pump with a pump housing, a rotating pumping member disposed in the pump housing and inlet and outlet cannulated tubes respectively connected to inlet and outlet ports of the pump housing, accessing the patients left atrium of the heart with the inlet cannulated tube, accessing the aorta with the outlet cannulated tube, actuating the rotating pumping member to draw oxygenated blood from the left atrium of the heart through the lumen of the inlet cannulated tube and into the inlet port of the pump housing whereby the pumping member imparts mechanical energy to the oxygenated blood passing through the pump housing and directs the oxygenated blood through the outlet port and through the lumen of the outlet cannulated tube to be transferred by the aorta to the systemic arteries and permitting the right side of the heart to function whereby oxygen-depleted blood returning through the systemic veins to the right atrium is directed through the right ventricle to the patients lungs for oxygenation and subsequent pulmonary circulation.

US Patent:

7264606, Sep 4, 2007

Filed:

Apr 5, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/818226

Inventors:

Robert Jarvik - New York NY, US
Daniel E. Alesi - Sherman CT, US
John F. Klinger - Danbury CT, US
Robert J. Geiste - Milford CT, US
Steven R. Day - Mukilteo WA, US
Keith Payea - Kirkland WA, US
Kenneth G. Hammerquist - Kirkland WA, US
Steven J. Stern - Issaquah WA, US
Francis X. Kaczynski - Bellevue WA, US
Mark Howansky - Wilton CT, US
Deborah M. Cashin - Norwalk CT, US

Assignee:

United States Surgical Corporation - Norwalk CT

International Classification:

A61M 37/00
A61M 1/36
A61N 1/362
A61M 5/00
A61M 1/00

US Classification:

604 611, 600 16, 604 401, 604 9, 422 44

Abstract:

A method for providing at least partial bypass of the heart to supplement the pumping function of the heart to thereby enable the surgeon to perform various surgical procedures thereon includes providing a circulatory assist system having a portable extracorporeal axial flow pump with a pump housing, a rotating pumping member disposed in the pump housing and inlet and outlet cannulated tubes respectively connected to inlet and outlet ports of the pump housing, accessing the patient's left atrium of the heart with the inlet cannulated tube, accessing the aorta with the outlet cannulated tube, actuating the rotating pumping member to draw oxygenated blood from the left atrium of the heart through the lumen of the inlet cannulated tube and into the inlet port of the pump housing whereby the pumping member imparts mechanical energy to the oxygenated blood passing through the pump housing and directs the oxygenated blood through the outlet port and through the lumen of the outlet cannulated tube to be transferred by the aorta to the systemic arteries and permitting the right side of the heart to function whereby oxygen-depleted blood returning through the systemic veins to the right atrium is directed through the right ventricle to the patient's lungs for oxygenation and subsequent pulmonary circulation.

US Patent:

59650893, Oct 12, 1999

Filed:

Oct 3, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/943504

Inventors:

Robert Jarvik - New York NY
Daniel E. Alesi - Sherman CT
John F. Klinger - Danbury CT
Robert J. Geiste - Milford CT
Steven R. Day - Mukilteo WA
Keith Payea - Kirkland WA
Kenneth G. Hammerquist - Kirkland WA
Steven J. Stern - Issaquah WA
Francis X. Kaczynski - Bellevue WA
Mark Howansky - Wilton CT
Deborah M. Cashin - Norwalk CT

Assignee:

United States Surgical Corporation - Norwalk CT

International Classification:

A61M 114
A61M 3700

US Classification:

422 44

Abstract:

A method for providing at least partial bypass of the heart to supplement the pumping function of the heart to thereby enable the surgeon to perform various surgical procedures thereon includes providing a circulatory assist system having a portable extracorporeal axial flow pump with a pump housing, a rotating pumping member disposed in the pump housing and inlet and outlet cannulated tubes respectively connected to inlet and outlet ports of the pump housing, accessing the patient's left atrium of the heart with the inlet cannulated tube, accessing the aorta with the outlet cannulated tube, actuating the rotating pumping member to draw oxygenated blood from the left atrium of the heart through the lumen of the inlet cannulated tube and into the inlet port of the pump housing whereby the pumping member imparts mechanical energy to the oxygenated blood passing through the pump housing and directs the oxygenated blood through the outlet port and through the lumen of the outlet cannulated tube to be transferred by the aorta to the systemic arteries and permitting the right side of the heart to function whereby oxygen-depleted blood returning through the systemic veins to the right atrium is directed through the right ventricle to the patient's lungs for oxygenation and subsequent pulmonary circulation.