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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7280863 | System and method for radar-assisted catheter guidance and control A Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging (CGCI) system whereby a magnetic tip attached to a surgical tool is detected, displayed and influenced positionally so as to allow diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to be performed is described. The tools that can be so eq... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7211054 | Method of treating a patient with a neurodegenerative disease using ultrasound The present invention provides methods for treating patients with ultrasound to promote healing. In particular, the present invention provides a method for improving blood flow to ischemic tissue by applying ultrasound to ischemic tissue. The invention also provides... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6942617 | Automatic stone-tracking system A tracking system for stone treatment by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy includes a data processing unit, a motion controller, a servo-moving platform, a stone image-processing module, a stone localization module, and a moving-mechanism control module. With th... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6322513 | Blood-vessel catheter A catheter which can be introduced into a blood vessel as an infusion or aspirating channel opening into the blood vessel through orifices in the catheter and at least one other channel closed at the catheter end and in which an ultrasound probe is remova... | 11/27/2001 |
| 5507738 | Ultrasonic vascular surgical system An ultrasonic vascular surgical system for passing by an artery lesion having a restricted passageway. The system includes a generator, a handpiece having a velocity transformer, a coupling unit having an inner transformer portion with a groove formed by ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 4947852 | Apparatus and method for continuously measuring volumetric blood flow using multiple transducer and catheter for use therewith Apparatus for measuring volumetric flow of a liquid in a vessel having a wall and having an axis extending longitudinally of the vessel parallel to the vessel wall. A flexible catheter is adapted to be disposed in the vessel. First and second ultrasonic t... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4947854 | Epicardial multifunctional probe An epicardial multifunctional probe has been designed to measure blood flow velocity and muscle thickening with two sensors. The probe is implantable and remains inside the patient after surgery. The probe is removable through a small opening in the patie... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4589419 | Catheter for treating arterial occlusion The cardiac catheter of this invention combines in a single, thin tube, an acoustic transducer for determining blood flow velocity, and a separate lumen with a removable, flexible, radio-opaque guide wire, enabling the surgeon to locate the site of arteri... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4354502 | Intravascular catheter including untrasonic transducer for use in detection and aspiration of air emboli A system for detecting and quantifying air emboli in blood vessels which uses either an intravascular catheter 22 or an esophageal catheter 50. In a preferred embodiment, the intravascular catheter includes an elongated cylindrical tube of flexible materi... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4329986 | Treatment of an extracorporeal stream of blood with a dialyzable chemotherapeutic and a fluorescable tracer A therapeutic composition suitable for extracorporeal treatment of whole blood comprises a dialyzable chemotherapeutic agent and a dialyzable fluorescable tracer means. The removal rate of the fluorescable tracer compound from treated blood during hemodia... | 05/18/1982 |
