Method and apparatus for guiding an instrument to a target...

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A61M 25/00 (2006.01)

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CA 2588002

The invention provides methods and apparatus for navigating a medical instrument to a target in the lung. In one embodiment, the invention includes inserting a bronchoscope into the lung, inserting a catheter into the lung through the working channel of the bronchoscope, inserting a tracked navigation instrument wire into the lung through the catheter, navigating the tracked navigation instrument through the lung to the target, advancing the catheter over the tracked navigation instrument to the target, removing the tracked navigation instrument from the catheter, and inserting a medical instrument into the catheter, thus bringing the medical instrument in proximity to the target.

L'invention concerne des méthodes et un appareil qui permettent de déplacer un instrument médical jusqu'à une région cible d'un poumon. Dans un mode de réalisation, une méthode de cette invention consiste à introduire un bronchoscope dans le poumon, à introduire un cathéter dans le poumon à travers le canal opérateur du bronchoscope, à insérer un fil d'instrument de navigation guidé dans le poumon à travers le cathéter, à déplacer cet instrument de navigation guidé à travers le poumon jusqu'à la région cible, à avancer le cathéter au-dessus de l'instrument de navigation guidé jusqu'à la région cible, à retirer ledit instrument du cathéter, et à introduire un instrument médical dans le cathéter, ce qui permet d'amener ledit instrument médical à proximité de la région cible.

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