Surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues

Details Surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues Surgical device for stapling and fastening body tissues

1994-04-22

1995-11-21

Smith, Scott A.

Elongated-member-driving apparatus

Surgical stapler

With lockout

227 19, 227179, A61B 17068

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054679117

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a surgical device for applying surgical fasteners to body tissues in order to fasten the body tissues together. The device comprises an operation section having a housing having an inner space completely sealed from the outside, drive elements electrically driven and arranged in the inner space of the operation section, an insertion section including a housing which has a first end portion containing the fasteners and having an opening through which the fasteners are to be applied, and a second end portion removably coupled to the housing of the operation section, fastener-applying elements located in the housing of the insertion section, for applying the fasteners from the opening to body tissues, and force-transmitting elements for transmitting drive force from the drive elements to the fastener-applying elements.

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patent: 5333773 (1994-08-01), Main et al.

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