Patent ID: 8585627
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: A61L

Abstract:
1. A catheter device, comprising: a body structure having an outer surface and an inner surface defining one or more fluid-flow passageways; an energy emitter component, the energy emitter component configured to deliver optical energy to one or more regions proximate at least one of the outer surface or the inner surface of the body structure; a sensor component, the sensor component configured to detect at least one of an emitted optical energy, a remitted optical energy, and an acoustic energy from a one or more regions proximate at least one of the outer surface or the inner surface of the body structure and to generate a first response based on a detected at least one of the emitted optical energy or the remitted optical energy; and one or more computer-readable memory media having infection marker information configured as a data structure, the data structure including a characteristic information component having characteristic microbial colonization spectral information representative of the presence of a microbial colonization proximate at least one of the outer surface or the inner surface of the body structure.