Surgery – Instruments – Suture – ligature – elastic band or clip applier
Patent
1996-03-01
1999-09-14
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Suture, ligature, elastic band or clip applier
606139, 606148, A61B 1704
Patent
active
059515759
ABSTRACT:
A surgical instrument comprises a shaft, a clamp support at a distal end of the shaft, and a clamp comprising a pair of pivotally mounted jaws within the clamp support. A handle at a proximal end of the shaft comprises an actuator for both opening and closing the jaws of the clamp and for rotating the jaws of the clamp about a deflected axis defined by the clamp support. The actuator includes a lever and a rotatable wheel which are coupled to the clamp via a flexible drive cable extending through the shaft and clamp support. The device is particularly useful for manipulating and driving curved surgical needles in thoracoscopic, laparoscopic, and other endoscopic suturing procedures.
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Bolduc Lee R.
Rapacki Alan R.
Buiz Michael
Grainger Jeffry J.
Heartport Inc.
Hoekendijk Jens E.
Pham Tina T. D.
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