Automated surgical instrument

Details Automated surgical instrument Automated surgical instrument

1994-07-05

1997-05-27

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Cutting, puncturing or piercing

606 1, A61B 1700

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active

056327587

ABSTRACT:
An automated surgical instrument provides a housing having a linear drive for moving a cannula toward and away from the housing. The housing may be supported stationarily while the cannula is driven to a predetermined location in the body through an incision. The end of the cannula includes a surgical tool or laparoscope to be positioned within an area undergoing an operation. Surgical tools can be actuated automatically by means of an actuator positioned in the housing and having a linkage extending through a lumen of the cannula to the tool. Both the actuator and the linear drive motor can be controlled by means of switches located on the housing or at another remote location.

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