Motor controlled surgical instrument

Details Motor controlled surgical instrument Motor controlled surgical instrument

1997-09-30

1999-07-27

Kamm, William E.

Surgery

Instruments

Cutting, puncturing or piercing

A61B 1732

Patent

active

059282568

ABSTRACT:
A surgical instrument for cauterization having a handle including a body and a shaft rotatably mounted on the body. A motor is operatively coupled to the shaft to cause rotation thereof. The surgical instrument further includes a selectively operable control switch and a programmable control circuit operatively connected to the motor and to the control switch. The control switch having programmed instructions stored in a memory thereof. The control circuit being responsive to a plurality of distinct patterns of actuations of the control switch to cause the motor to operate according to respective ones of the programmed instructions.

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