Surgery – Instruments – Electrical application
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-31
2005-05-31
Peffley, Michael (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Instruments
Electrical application
C606S170000, C606S045000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06899712
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a series of devices for performing surgical procedures utilizing electrodes for performing electrocautery on a tissue of the body of a patient. The invention includes, in one aspect, a series of devices comprising surgical instruments providing at least one electrode for performing electrocautery, and, in another aspect, provides a method for cutting and cauterizing tissue with a surgical instrument. In yet another aspect, the invention involves a method for detecting the location of a bleeding vessel in a liquid-filled, visually monitored surgical field of a patient and for electrocauterizing the vessel to stop the bleeding before visualization of the surgical field is compromised. Preferred surgical instruments according to the invention also include operable components for forming a liquid cutting jet for cutting or ablating tissue of a patient and/or for providing a rotating, tissue contacting component for cutting, grinding, ablating, etc. tissue during a surgical procedure. Some surgical instruments, according to the invention, include one or more liquid conducting lumen therein for transporting and/or removing a liquid from a surgical operating field, which lumen, in some cases, are selectively coated with a layer of an electrically insulating material so that certain, selected, uncoated regions of an external surface of the lumen can act as an electrocautery electrode of the instrument.
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Freeman, Jr. Donald C.
Levine Andy H.
Moutafis Timothy E.
Staid Kevin
HydroCision, Inc.
Peffley Michael
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks P.C.
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