Patent ID: 11883554
Assignee: ETHICON, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 1:
2. A delivery device for forming and expressing a hemostatic paste material comprising:
a) a first syringe containing a carrier material; and
b) a coaxial applicator tip;, wherein said coaxial applicator tip has an external tube and an internal tube positioned within said external tube, with a gap between the external tube and the internal tube; the first syringe is connected to said internal tube at a proximal end of said coaxial applicator tip and expresses the carrier material through said internal tube, a supplemental hemostatic agent is contained within said gap, the internal tube is open at a distal end of said coaxial applicator tip and the external tube is closed at the distal end of said coaxial expression tip and at the proximal end of said coaxial applicator tip, and the internal tube is in fluid communication with the gap through at least one opening in a wall of the internal tube,, said paste material comprising:, the carrier material and the supplemental hemostatic agent;, wherein the paste material has an elongated form extending along a lengthwise axis with an aspect ratio of at least 3, the paste material is self-supporting and syringe extrudable, and the supplemental hemostatic agent has a non-homogenous distribution profile across a cross-section taken across the lengthwise axis.