Patent ID: 7922692
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A medical device designed to locate a body passageway on a patient to enable a user to access the body passageway in a body part of the patient, said medical device comprising a monitor assembly, a support assembly and a needle handling assembly, said monitor assembly including an upper and lower surface, said upper surface including at least one display designed to display a representation of the body passageway in the body portion that is positioned below said lower surface of said monitor assembly; said support assembly including a base portion and a side portion connected to said base portion, said base portion including an upper surface designed to receive the body portion of the patient, said side portion extending upwardly from said upper surface of said base portion, said side portion designed to at least partially support said monitor assembly above said upper surface of said base portion when the body portion is at least partially positioned between said base portion of said support assembly and said lower surface of said monitor assembly, said monitor assembly connected to said support assembly to enable said monitor assembly to move upwardly from or pivot upwardly from said upper surface of said base portion to enable the body portion to be positioned between said lower surface of said monitor assembly and said upper surface of said base portion of said support assembly, said monitor designed to produce the representation of the body passageway when said body portion is positioned between said base portion of said support assembly and said lower surface of said monitor assembly; said needle handling assembly designed to at least partially support one or more penetration devices selected from the group consisting of a needle, a catheter, a syringe, an IV and a tube, said needle handling assembly at least partially connected to said monitor assembly, said needle handling assembly designed to allow multi-axes positioning of said penetration device relative to the monitor assembly so as to enable a user to properly position an end of said penetration device relative to the body portion when attempting to access the body passageway while the user is viewing said display on said upper surface of said monitor assembly which is displaying said representation of the body passageway in the body portion while the body portion is positioned between said lower surface of said monitor assembly and said upper surface of said base portion of said support assembly.