Surgery – Internal organ support or sling
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-10
2007-04-10
Hindenburg, Max F. (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Internal organ support or sling
Reexamination Certificate
active
10781378
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method and apparatus for performing beating heart surgery, in which a single articulating arm supports multiple suction pods. Once the suction pods are applied to the heart surface, tightening a cable fixes the arm in place. Then, the suction pods may be spread apart from each other to tighten the surface of the cardiac tissue lying between the suction pods. In one embodiment, fixation of the arm as well as the spreading apart of the suction pods may occur concurrently or almost concurrently through the tensioning of a single cable. Additional embodiments of the method, system and its components are shown.
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