Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Chafing shields
Patent
1998-06-08
2000-03-07
Yu, Mickey
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Chafing shields
600201, A61B 1900
Patent
active
060326719
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for dissecting a first layer of tissue from a second layer of tissue and thereafter holding open an anatomic space for the performance of a surgical procedure. The method includes steps of making an incision in a body, introducing a deflated balloon dissector into the incision, inflating the balloon dissector to effect dissection of the first layer of tissue from the second layer of tissue, deploying a retractor within the anatomic space in order to hold open the anatomic space, and optionally deflating or evacuating the balloon dissector to open a cavity for surgical manipulations. The apparatus includes a combined dissector-retractor having a balloon retractor disposed upon the surface of the balloon dissector and integrated therewith.
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Jervis James E.
Mollenauer Kenneth H.
General Surgical Innovations Inc.
O'Hara Kelly
Yu Mickey
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