Surgical probe and smoke eliminator

Details Surgical probe and smoke eliminator Surgical probe and smoke eliminator

1991-04-26

1993-01-26

Isabella, David J.

Surgery

Instruments

Light application

604 22, 604313, 604902, A61B 1736

Patent

active

051819163

ABSTRACT:
The invention comprises a handpiece for use in a surgical procedure which involves directing a surgical agent to a target area of a person's body which procedure produces an unwanted smoke plume. The handpiece includes both a probe for directing a surgical agent, such as a CO.sub.2 laser beam, and a smoke eliminator for removing with suction the smoke created by the surgical procedure. The probe has no functional components for creating the laser beam, and is thus economical enough to be disposable after one use. The smoke eliminator includes a nozzle and/or an offset suction port so configured as to create a votrex flow in the smoke in the target area upstream in the fluid flow pathway of smoke through the hand piece from the distal tip of the hand piece.

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