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Title: Fluid jet surgical instruments

Abstract: The invention provides a variety of surgical instruments for forming a liquid jet, which are useful for performing a wide variety of surgical procedures. In some embodiments, the invention provides surgical liquid jet instruments having a pressure lumen and an evacuation lumen, where the pressure lumen includes at least one nozzle for forming a liquid jet and where the evacuation lumen includes a jet-receiving opening for receiving the liquid jet when the instrument is in operation. In some embodiments, the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen of the surgical liquid jet instruments are constructed and positionable relative to each other so that the liquid comprising the liquid jet, and any tissue or material entrained by the liquid jet can be evacuated through the evacuation lumen without the need for an external source of suction. The invention also provides a variety of surgical liquid jet instruments that are constructed and configured specifically for use in a surrounding liquid environment or a surrounding gaseous environment. The invention also provides a variety of surgical liquid jet instruments that are rotatably deployable from an undeployed position, for insertion into the body of a patient, to a deployed position, in which there is a separation distance between the liquid jet nozzle and the jet-receiving opening that defines a liquid jet path length. The invention also provides surgical methods utilizing the inventive surgical liquid jet instruments, and methods for forming components of the surgical liquid jet instruments.

Patent Number: 7,122,017 Issued on 10/17/2006 to Moutafis,   et al.


Inventors: Moutafis; Timothy E. (Gloucester, MA), Staid; Kevin (Lowell, MA), Freeman, Jr.; Donald C. (Burlington, MA)
Assignee: Hydrocision, Inc. (Billerica, MA)
Appl. No.: 10/100,499
Filed: March 18, 2002


Related U.S. Patent Documents

Application NumberFiling DatePatent NumberIssue Date
09313679Apr., 20026375635

Current U.S. Class: 604/22 ; 604/35; 604/43; 606/159; 606/167
Current International Class: A61B 17/20 (20060101); A61B 17/32 (20060101); A61M 1/00 (20060101); A61M 3/00 (20060101)
Field of Search: 604/22,19,27-28,35,39,40,42-43,93.01,149-150 606/167,159,170


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Primary Examiner: Lucchesi; Nicholas D.
Assistant Examiner: Williams; Catherine S.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Parent Case Text



RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/313,679, filed May 18, 1999, entitled FLUID JET SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, and now U.S. Pat. No. 6,375,635, issued on Apr. 23, 2002.
Claims



What is claimed is:

1. A device comprising: a surgical instrument having a distal end adapted to perform a surgical procedure on a patient and a proximal end adapted to be controllable by an operator, the instrument including a pressure lumen having sufficient burst strength to conduct a high pressure liquid towards the distal end of the instrument, the pressure lumen including at least one nozzle providing a jet opening; and an evacuation lumen, including a jet-receiving opening having a cross-sectional area and locatable opposite the jet opening at a predetermined distance therefrom to receive a liquid jet when the instrument is in operation; the nozzle being shaped to form a liquid jet as a liquid at high pressure flows therethrough, the liquid jet creating an entrainment region of moving liquid such that essentially all of the moving liquid in the entrainment region is directed into the jet-receiving opening when the instrument is in operation; the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening and the predetermined distance being selected so that the entrainment region occupies between 50% and 100% of the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening when the instrument is in operation; and wherein an axis defining a direction of at least a central region of the liquid jet and a longitudinal axis of the proximal end of the surgical instrument are non-parallel to each other when the instrument is in operation.

2. The device as in claim 1, wherein an angle between the axis defining a direction of at least a central region of the liquid jet and the longitudinal axis of the proximal end of the surgical instrument is between about 45 and about 115 degrees when the instrument is in operation.

3. The device as in claim 2, wherein an angle between the axis defining a direction of at least a central region of the liquid jet and the longitudinal axis of the proximal end of the surgical instrument is between about 80 and about 100 degrees when the instrument is in operation.

4. The device as in claim 3, wherein an angle between the axis defining a direction of at least a central region of the liquid jet and the longitudinal axis of the proximal end of the surgical instrument is about 90 degrees when the instrument is in operation.

5. A device comprising: a surgical instrument having a distal end adapted to perform a surgical procedure on a patient and a proximal end adapted to be controllable by an operator, the instrument including a pressure lumen having sufficient burst strength to conduct a high pressure liquid towards the distal end of the instrument, the pressure lumen including at least one nozzle providing a jet opening; and an evacuation lumen, including a jet-receiving opening having a cross-sectional area and locatable opposite the jet opening at a predetermined distance therefrom to receive a liquid jet when the instrument is in operation; the nozzle being shaped to form a liquid jet as a liquid at high pressure flows therethrough, the liquid jet creating an entrainment region of moving liquid such that essentially all of the moving liquid in the entrainment region is directed into the jet-receiving opening when the instrument is in operation; the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening and the predetermined distance being selected so that the entrainment region occupies between 50% and 100% of the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening when the instrument is in operation; and wherein at least one of a length to minimum internal diameter ratio of the nozzle and a cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening has a predetermined value selected based at least in part on the predetermined distance.

6. The device as in claim 5, wherein the distal end of the surgical instrument has a predetermined contour and size selected to facilitate insertion of the distal end into a confined region of a body defining a surgical operating space for a specific surgical procedure.

7. The device as in claim 6, wherein the distal end of the surgical instrument has a predetermined contour and size selected to facilitate insertion of the distal end into a joint capsule.

8. The device as in claim 5, wherein the predetermined distance is adjustable.

9. The device as in claim 5, wherein the surgical instrument includes a sheath surrounding at least a portion of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen.

10. The device as in claim 9, wherein the sheath has a proximal and a distal end, and wherein the distal end of the sheath is positionable proximal to an extreme distal point on the distal end of the instrument, and wherein at least one of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen extend distally from the distal end of the sheath.

11. The device as in claim 9, wherein at least one of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen is movable relative to the other.

12. The device as in claim 9, wherein at least one of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen is movable within the sheath.

13. The device as in claim 11, wherein movement of at least one of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen causes a change in the predetermined distance, the change in the predetermined distance causing a corresponding change in a cutting/ablating length of the liquid jet when the instrument is in operation.

14. The device as in claim 13, wherein the movement is controllable by manipulating at least a part of the proximal end of the surgical instrument.

15. A device as in claim 11, wherein the pressure lumen is essentially immovable and the evacuation lumen is movable relative to the pressure lumen.

16. The device as in claim 9, wherein the sheath is essentially straight with a longitudinal axis that is essentially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the proximal end of the surgical instrument.

17. The device as in claim 5, wherein the predetermined distance has a maximum value of about 1 cm.

18. The device as in claim 17, wherein the predetermined distance has a maximum value of about 5 mm.

19. The device as in claim 18, wherein the predetermined distance has a maximum value of about 1 mm.

20. The device as in claim 5, wherein the liquid at high pressure is supplied to the jet opening when the instrument is in operation at a pressure of at least 500 psig.

21. The device as in claim 20, wherein the liquid at high pressure is supplied to the jet opening when the instrument is in operation at a pressure of at least about 5,000 psig.

22. The device as in claim 21, wherein the liquid at high pressure is supplied to the jet opening when the instrument is in operation at a pressure of at least about 3,000 psig.

23. The device as in claim 22, wherein the liquid at high pressure is supplied to the jet opening when the instrument is in operation at a pressure of at least about 30,000 psig.

24. The device as in claim 23, wherein the liquid at high pressure is supplied to the jet opening when the instrument is in operation at a pressure of at least about 50,000 psig.

25. The device as in claim 5, wherein the jet opening has a diameter of between about 0.001 and about 0.02 inches.

26. The device as in claim 25, wherein the jet opening has a diameter of between about 0.003 and about 0.01 inches.

27. The device as in claim 26, wherein the jet opening has a diameter of about 0.005 inches.

28. The device as in claim 5, wherein the jet-receiving opening has a diameter of between about 0.01 and about 0.2 inches.

29. The device as in claim 28, wherein the jet-receiving opening has a diameter of between about 0.03 and about 0.1 inches.

30. The device as in claim 28, wherein the jet-receiving opening has a diameter of about 0.06 inches.

31. The device as in claim 5, wherein the proximal end of the surgical instrument includes a body, the body having a grasping region shaped and positionable to be held by a hand of the operator.

32. The device as in claim 5, wherein the surgical instrument is constructed and arranged to be entirely disposable after a single use.

33. The device as in claim 5, wherein the surgical instrument is constructed and arranged for operation in a liquid environment where at least the jet opening and the jet-receiving opening are submerged in a liquid when the instrument is in operation.

34. The device as in claim 33, wherein the liquid jet is an essentially collimated jet and wherein the entrainment region of moving liquid comprises a zone of liquid surrounding the collimated jet, the zone of liquid having a lower pressure than a liquid surrounding the zone.

35. The device as in claim 34, wherein the zone of liquid surrounding the collimated jet comprises a cavitation zone, the pressure of a least a portion of a liquid therein being below a vapor pressure the liquid.

36. The device as in claim 34, wherein the zone of liquid surrounding the collimated jet diverges in a direction from the jet opening to the jet-receiving opening so that the zone has an apex located at the jet opening.

37. The device as in claim 34, wherein the zone of liquid surrounding the collimated jet has a truncated cone shape.

38. The device as in claim 34, wherein the entrainment region occupies at least 75% of the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening.

39. The device as in claim 38, wherein the entrainment region occupies at least 90% of the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening.

40. The device as in claim 39, wherein the entrainment region occupies at least 95% of the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening.

41. The device as in claim 5, wherein the evacuation lumen is shaped and positionable to enable evacuation of essentially all of the liquid comprising the liquid jet from the jet-receiving opening to a proximal end of the evacuation lumen without the need for an external source of suction.

42. The device as in claim 5, wherein the evacuation lumen includes a region at least one of within and downstream of the jet-receiving opening that is shaped so that a liquid within the region is able to macerate at least a portion of a tissue entrained in the liquid into a plurality of particles when the instrument is in operation.

43. The device as in claim 5, wherein the entrainment region and evacuation lumen are shaped and positionable to reduce a substantial fraction of a tissue entrained by the entrainment region to a plurality of microscopic particles during operation of the instrument.

44. The device as in claim 5, wherein the evacuation lumen has an internal cross-sectional area which increases continuously from a minimum value at the jet-receiving opening to a maximum value at a predetermined position proximal of the jet-receiving opening, which maximum value is essentially constant at positions proximal to the predetermined position.

45. The device as in claim 5, wherein the pressure lumen includes a proximal and a distal end, the distal end including the at least one nozzle and being shaped to enable at least one jet opening to be positionable adjacent to a surface to be ablated or debrided such that a liquid jet emanating from the jet opening is separated from the surface by a distance essentially equal to a wall thickness, at the jet opening, of tubing comprising the pressure lumen.

46. The device as in claim 5, wherein the entrainment region has a cross-sectional area at a plane defining the jet-receiving opening that is greater than about 50% of and less than or equal to about 100% of the cross-sectional area of the jet receiving opening when the instrument is in operation.

47. The device as in claim 5, wherein: the distal end of the surgical instrument has a predetermined contour and size selected to facilitate insertion of the distal end into a confined region of a body defining a surgical operating space for a specific surgical procedure; at least one of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen is movable relative to the other, and wherein movement of at least one of the pressure lumen and the evacuation lumen causes a change in the predetermined distance, the change in the predetermined distance causing a corresponding change in a length of the liquid jet when the instrument is in operation; the proximal end of the surgical instrument includes a body, the body having a grasping region shaped and positionable to be held by a hand of the operator; the entrainment region occupies at least 95% of the cross-sectional area of the jet-receiving opening; and the evacuation lumen is shaped and positionable to enable evacuation of essentially all of the liquid comprising the liquid jet from the jet-receiving opening to a proximal end of the evacuation lumen without the need for an external source of suction.

48. A device comprising: a surgical instrument having a distal end adapted to perform a surgical procedure on


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