Patent ID: 7955316
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A robotic medical system for use with a guide wire and an intravascular catheter that delivers fluid within an anatomical vessel, comprising: a user interface accessible by a user and configured for receiving at least one command from the user, a form of the user interface comprising a shape other than a shape that resembles the guide wire and the catheter; an electromechanical driver operably coupled to the guide wire and the catheter; an electronic fluid delivery controller comprising a first valve and a second valve; an electronic controller coupled between the user interface and the electromechanical driver and between the user interface and the fluid delivery controller, the same user interface being operable to control the electromechanical driver and the fluid delivery controller with the at least one command from the user; a fluid feed line; a first supply of a first fluid, the first supply being in fluid communication with the fluid feed line through the first valve; a second supply of a second fluid, the first and second fluids being different fluids, the second supply being in fluid communication with the fluid feed line through the second valve; a manifold, a fluid inlet port of the manifold fluidly interfacing with a fluid outlet of the fluid feed line, the catheter fluidly interfacing with the fluid outlet of the fluid feed line through the manifold; and the user interface being configured to receive respective commands to control selective delivery of the first and second fluids to the catheter and to control mechanical movements of the catheter and the guidewire, the electronic controller being configured for directing the electromechanical driver to mechanically move the catheter and the guide wire with at least two degrees-of-freedom and for directing the fluid delivery controller to selectively deliver the first and second fluids through the fluid feed line to the catheter by controlling the first and second valves in response to the at least one command.