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7628791 |
Single action tissue sealer
An endoscopic bipolar forceps includes a housing and a shaft, the shaft having an end effector assembly at its distal end. The end effector assembly includes two jaw members for grasping tissue...
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7608073 |
Energy based partial circumferential hemorrhoid repair device
An energy based partial circumferential hemorrhoid repair device including an actuator assembly, and an energy based partial circumferential hemorrhoid repair device head assembly operatively...
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7572236 |
Biopsy device with fluid delivery to tissue specimens
The invention is directed to a system and method for separating and collecting one or more tissue specimens from a target site within a patient and flushing the specimen to remove blood, debris and...
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7569057 |
Impulsive percussion instruments for endplate preparation
A hand-held instrument, with a rotary power input to a camshaft, has cam and follower arrangement to provide a reciprocating shaft output. A cutter is provided on the output shaft. In one example,...
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7563242 |
Ultrasonic surgery apparatus
An ultrasonic surgery apparatus capable of setting surgical conditions properly in accordance with hardness of a nucleus lentis and performing surgery with efficiency is disclosed. The ultrasonic...
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7551077 |
RFID ring illumination system for surgical machine
An RFID ring illumination system includes an illumination ring and a printed circuit board. The illumination ring has a light refracting layer integral with the front of a surgical machine. The...
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7540870 |
Ablative ultrasonic-cryogenic apparatus
An ablative apparatus that can be used to treat atrial fibrillation and other cardiac arrhythmias by ablating cardiac tissue is disclosed. When the distal end of the apparatus reaches the tissue to...
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7517322 |
Biopsy device with variable side aperture
A biopsy device and method are provided for obtaining a tissue sample, such as a breast tissue biopsy sample. The biopsy device may include an outer cannula having a distal piercing tip, a cutter...
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7513898 |
Vessel sealing instrument
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument for clamping, grasping, manipulating, and sealing tissue includes first and second shafts each having a jaw member extending from a distal end thereof and a...
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7481775 |
Biopsy device incorporating an adjustable probe sleeve
Devices and methods for varying the size of a tissue sample in a biopsy device are disclosed. The biopsy device includes a needle with a tissue aperture and an inner cutter which translates within...
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7470237 |
Biopsy instrument with improved needle penetration
The present invention provides a biopsy instrument with improved needle penetration for piercing dense tissue. The device may comprise a needle slidably retained in a housing. The device may...
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7458940 |
Biopsy apparatus
A biopsy apparatus having a disposable cutting element and a reusable handpiece is disclosed. The disposable cutting element includes an inner cannula that defines an inner lumen and terminates in...
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7443296 |
Smart connector system for surgical machine
A smart connector system includes a machine connector disposed on a face of a surgical machine, an illumination ring located on the face of the surgical machine and disposed around a periphery of...
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7419472 |
Biopsy instrument with internal specimen collection mechanism
A biopsy instrument with an internal specimen collection mechanism is provided.
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7390330 |
Reciprocating surgical file
The invention relates to shielded reciprocating surgical file system for precisely removing bone and/or other tissue material. The system allows a user to maneuver the system and navigate into hard...
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7377902 |
Biopsy anchor device with cutter
A device for accessing and for isolating a desired site within a patient's body, and for obtaining a body of tissue from a patient at the site that includes an electrosurgical cutting electrode...
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7335217 |
High-speed vitreous cutting system
A high-speed pneumatic cutting system having a cutter and an actuator. The cutter is a guillotine-type, pneumatic cutter that receives a train of pressure pulses from the actuator. The actuator is...
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7335216 |
Tool for creating an opening in tissue
An piercing member is axially fixed to and positioned within a cutter, both of which are components of a stand-alone tool for creating an opening in the wall of a tubular tissue structure. The...
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7294131 |
Bone removal device
An apparatus and method for positioning and controlling the movement of a bone removal device, and thus of controlling the profile of material removed by the device. Also an improved drive...
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7282055 |
Medical retrieval instrument
A medical retrieval instrument of the present invention includes a plurality of filaments for holding an object and a hollow section through which a first end of each of said plurality of filaments...
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7229456 |
Medical instrument for dissecting tissue
A medical instrument for dissecting tissue in the human or animal body comprises a shaft. At least one movable tool is arranged at a distal end of the shaft. At least one movable grip element is...
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7229439 |
Apparatus and method for accessing a body site
A device and method of using the device to access a desired tissue site within a patient's body and separating a tissue specimen from the tissue site suitable for evaluation. The device includes a...
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7166103 |
High efficiency electrosurgical ablator with electrode subjected to oscillatory or other repetitive motion
A high efficiency electrosurgical ablator which is subjected to a combined oscillatory and mechanical debridement motion during resection of tissue is disclosed. The electrosurgical ablator is...
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7135029 |
Ultrasonic surgical instrument for intracorporeal sonodynamic therapy
The present invention relates, in general, to ultrasonic surgical instruments and, more particularly, to an intracorporeal ultrasonic surgical instrument for sonodynamic therapy. Disclosed is an...
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7118584 |
Steerable sphincterotome and methods for cannulation, papillotomy and sphincterotomy
The present invention relates to methodology of and apparatus for accurately positioning devices for performing endoscopic cannulation, papillotomy and sphincterotomy and similar procedures. The...
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7066893 |
Biopsy method
A biopsy device having an insert and related method are disclosed. The insert permits a user to obtain a tissue sample surrounding a center core(s) of removed tissue. The additional tissue provides...
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7029485 |
Corneal surgery device
A device for surgery of the cornea comprising:
an annular base ( 100 ) for fixing the apparatus to the eye of a patient; a cutter head ( 200 ) comprising a body ( 200 a ) and a blade ( 201 )...
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7018354 |
Liposuction devices and methods and surrounding aspiration systems and methods
Liposuction devices and methods and surrounding aspiration systems and methods that reduce the chances of burning and necrosis. The devices include an evacuation tube surrounding an ultrasonic...
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7001403 |
Saw blade for medical applications
A saw blade for medical, in particular surgical, applications having a recess for mounting the saw blade inside a saw which exerts an saw movement, especially an oscillating saw movement, to the...
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7001382 |
Electrosurgical coagulating and cutting instrument
An electrosurgical coagulating and cutting instrument employing pairs of clamping arms having wrist portions proximal to closing ramps and jaws and configured to close at their wrists first, then...
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6916328 |
Percutaneous cellulite removal system
A percutaneous cellulite removal needle of the present invention can be used to make the appearance of cellulite less obvious by cutting the fibrous bridges that connect the skin to muscle/fascia...
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6893434 |
Ultrasonic soft tissue cutting and coagulation systems including a retractable grasper
The present invention features an ultrasonic surgical system including an ultrasonically vibrating blade, and retractable grasper. The grasper includes a grasping jaw or clamp that is movable, in a...
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6887209 |
Pulsed vacuum and/or flow method and apparatus for tissue removal
A method of controlling a surgical cutting device, the device including a hollow needle with a port for tissue entry and a moveable cutting blade for severing tissue entering the needle through the...
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6875221 |
Turbine driven vitrectomy cutter
A vitreous cutter 10 includes a plurality of vanes 14 rotatably attached within a housing 12 . An inlet 16 receives pressurized fluid, which causes rotation of the vanes 14 . An outlet 20 ...
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6869439 |
Ultrasonic dissector
An ultrasonic surgical instrument for dissection and coagulation of tissue is provided. The surgical instrument includes a vibration coupler supported within a housing and operably connected to an...
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6818001 |
Intralumenal material removal systems and methods
The intralumenal material removal system includes a cutter assembly positionable in the lumen of a mammalian subject and operably connected to system controls. The cutter assembly is axially...
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6800083 |
Compressible atherectomy burr
A rotational ablation atherectomy device including a flexible drive shaft and a compressible burr that may be inserted and extracted from a patient using a catheter having a diameter that is...
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6790217 |
Surgical instrument with a dissecting tip
A surgical instrument useful in harvesting blood vessels such as veins and arteries. The instrument has a pair of jaws and a central cutting element displaceable distally and proximally to dissect...
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6758842 |
Medical instrument for removing tissue, bone cement or the like in the human or animal body
A medical instrument for treating, in particular for removing tissue, bone cement or the like in the human or animal body, comprising a hand piece having a distal end; an application part arranged...
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6749617 |
Catheter and implants for the delivery of therapeutic agents to tissues
A catheter is provided for delivering implants including therapeutic agents to tissues. The catheter is advanceable intra-luminally to place the implants. In one embodiment, the implants include a...
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6743245 |
Asynchronous method of operating microsurgical instruments
An improved, asynchronous method of operating a microsurgical instrument, such as a vitrectomy probe. The instrument includes a port for receiving tissue and an inner cutting member. A flow of...
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6742236 |
Making closed end tubes for surgical instruments
Techniques are described for making one-piece tubes for surgical instruments in which an inner tube that carries a cutting implement is disposed for movement within an outer tube having a cutting...
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6733451 |
Apparatus and method for an ultrasonic probe used with a pharmacological agent
The present invention provides an apparatus and a method of using an ultrasonic probe with a pharmacological agent to enhance an occlusion treating effect of the ultrasonic probe to effectively...
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6730106 |
Vitreous surgical apparatus
A vitreous surgical apparatus in which an inner tubular blade is moved in an axis direction with respect to an outer tubular blade by supply and exhaust of compressed air to excise a part of a...
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6676677 |
Liposuction cannula with abrading apertures
A liposuction cannula with abrading suction apertures and a method of using a cannula with abrading suction apertures are disclosed. The liposuction cannula comprises: a hand-holdable housing...
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6652551 |
Biliary sphincter scissors
Biliary sphincter scissors, used in a sphincterotomy, include a stationary blade and an actuated blade having dimensions which allow the scissors to pass through a channel in an endoscope. The...
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6652547 |
Apparatus and method of removing occlusions using ultrasonic medical device operating in a transverse mode
A method for removing an occlusion is provided comprising introducing a transverse mode ultrasonic probe into a blood vessel, positioning the probe in proximity to the occlusion, and transmitting...
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6645217 |
Over-the-wire atherectomy catheter
An atherectomy catheter device includes a housing at the distal end of a substantially round housing torque cable. A cutter torque cable is disposed within the housing and includes a rotatable and...
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6638280 |
Rongeur with drainage
A rongeur has one or more drainage holes through its shank into a space between its shank and crossbar to allow drainage of fluid therefrom and to enhance cleaning and sterilization.
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6629986 |
Apparatus and method for performing opthalmic procedures
A surgical cutting system. The cutting system includes a cutter which has an inner sleeve that moves adjacent to an aspiration port of an outer sleeve. The inner sleeve is coupled to a source of...
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