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7621910 High frequency treatment device having a pair of jaws with electrodes  
A high frequency treatment device is provided for high-frequency medical treatments including blood stanching. The device comprises an insertion member and a pair of jaws each representing a...
7611511 Bipolar medical instrument and electrosurgical system comprising such an instrument  
A bipolar medical instrument for cutting tissue under the action of high-frequency current comprises an elongate electrode carrier, an active electrode arranged at the distal end of the electrode...
7604634 Transmural ablation device  
A method and apparatus for transmural ablation using an instrument containing two electrodes or cryogenic probes. A clamping force is exerted on the two electrodes or probes such that the tissue of...
7544195 Electrocautery surgical scissors  
Surgical apparatus includes bipolar electrodes and tissue-shearing blades configured to electrically contact tissue for electrocauterization thereof prior to shearing contact of the cutting blades...
7520877 Radiofrequency ablation system using multiple prong probes  
Efficient ablation with multiple prong electrodes is obtained by electrically isolating the prongs from each other and rapidly switching electric power between the prongs, between a prong and a...
7519410 La placian electrode  
A medical probe for mapping is provided. The medical probe includes an elongated member, a first mapping ring electrode mounted to the elongated member, and a second mapping ring electrode mounted...
7491199 Electrosurgical generator and system  
An electrosurgical system includes a generator for generating radio frequency power, and an electrosurgical instrument including at least three electrodes and. The generator includes a radio...
7481809 Handpiece with RF electrode and non-volatile memory  
An RF device includes a support structure coupled to an RF electrode that has conductive and dielectric portions. A cooling member is coupled to the support structure and is configured to cool a...
7449022 Shapeable electrosurgical scalpel  
The invention is directed to an electrosurgical device having a shapeable elongate cutting electrode having a free distal end with an exposed length of at least 0.5 inch and secured by its proximal...
7445621 Bipolar forceps having monopolar extension  
An endoscopic forceps for treating tissue includes a housing having a shaft affixed thereto which has first and second jaw members attached to a distal end thereof. The forceps also includes an...
7445618 Methods for tissue ablation using pulsed energy  
An electrosurgical probe comprises a shaft having an electrode array ( 12 ) at its distal end and a connector at its proximal end. The array ( 12 ) includes a plurality of isolated electrode...
7442191 Systems and methods for electrosurgical treatment of turbinates  
The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within the head and neck of a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the...
7429262 Apparatus and methods for electrosurgical ablation and resection of target tissue  
An electrosurgical system and method for ablating, resecting, or cutting body structures, with minimal or no damage to tissue adjacent to the treatment site. The system includes an electrosurgical...
7422585 System for electrosurgical myocardial revascularization  
A method for transmyocardial revascularization of the heart of a patient includes positioning an active electrode surface in close proximity to a target site on the wall of a patient's heart, and...
7419488 Electrosurgical probe with movable return electrode and methods related thereto  
The present invention provides systems, apparatus, and methods for dissecting, resecting, severing, cutting, contracting, coagulating, or otherwise modifying a tissue or organ of a patient. An...
7387631 Electro-cautery catheter  
An integrated catheter assembly for enabling diverse endoscopic in situ therapies. The assembly includes a catheter with an irrigation fluid lumen, a distal electrode tip portion that acts as a...
7377920 Laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument  
A laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument for sealing tissue includes a handle having an elongated tube affixed thereto. The tube includes first and second jaw members having electrically...
7367976 Bipolar forceps having monopolar extension  
An endoscopic forceps for treating tissue includes a housing having a shaft affixed thereto which has first and second jaw members attached to a distal end thereof. The forceps also includes an...
7341586 Thermal coagulation of tissue during tissue resection  
A coagulation system is provided for use in biological tissue. The coagulation system includes a handle, a radiofrequency (RF) generator, and an electrode array. The electrode array includes two or...
7331957 Electrosurgical apparatus and methods for laparoscopy  
Electrosurgical methods and apparatus for treating tissue at a target site of a patient. An electrosurgical instrument includes a shaft, having a shaft distal end and a shaft proximal end, and an...
7306592 System and method for regulating an amount of thermal energy generated by an electrosurgical tool  
An bipolar electrosurgical tool ( 10 ) for cauterizing or ablating tissue. The tool has a nose cone ( 12 ) which serves as a handle. A conductive shaft ( 14 ) extends from the nose cone. A tip...
7303561 High-frequency tool for endoscope  
A high-frequency treatment tool for an endoscope is provided with a transparent hood to be detachably coupled to a distal end of an endoscope provided with at least one electrode, at least one...
7300437 Electronic scalpel to cut organic tissues  
The electrode of a manipulator cuts tissue. The scalpel has rectifying circuit for supplying a rectified voltage to a radio frequency circuit which produces an output current signal at a...
7300436 Tissue resurfacing  
A method for skin treatment comprises the steps of delivering at least one pulse of radio frequency power to at least one electrode in order to create an electric field; passing gas through the...
7297145 Bipolar electrosurgical clamp for removing and modifying tissue  
The present invention provides systems, apparatus and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to body tissue in order to ablate, contract, coagulate, or otherwise modify a target tissue...
7291146 Selectable eccentric remodeling and/or ablation of atherosclerotic material  
A catheter and catheter system for eccentric remodeling and/or removal of atherosclerotic material of a blood vessel of a patient include an elongate flexible catheter body with a radially...
7278994 Electrosurgical instrument  
A system and method are disclosed for removing a uterus using a fluid enclosure inserted in the peritoneal cavity of a patient so as to enclose the uterus. The fluid enclosure includes a distal...
7273480 Composite material braided insulator  
A tissue penetrating probe includes a distal tissue piercing end; a first electrode; a second electrode; and a dielectric element. A proximal end of the dielectric element is bonded to a distal end...
7270661 Electrosurgical apparatus and methods for treatment and removal of tissue  
Apparatus and methods for ablating, severing, cutting, shrinking, coagulating, or otherwise modifying a target tissue to be treated. In a method for treating a target tissue, an active electrode of...
7261711 Electrosurgical instrument  
A method and apparatus for creating a virtual electrode to ablate bodily tissue. The apparatus includes an outer tube, a first electrode, an inner tube and a second electrode. The outer tube is...
7235073 Cooled electrosurgical forceps  
Bipolar electrosurgical forceps includes a first electrode attached to a first heat pipe and a second electrode attached to a second heat pipe. The heat pipe can be removably attached to the...
7235071 Gas-assisted electrosurgical accessory connector and method with improved gas sealing and biasing for maintaining a gas tight seal  
Male and female mating pieces of a gas-assisted electrosurgical accessory connector are connectable together by radially contacting a sealing surface formed on one mating piece with a resilient...
7232439 Bipolar tissue morcellator  
An endoscopic morcellator device and method for use is provided. The morcellator device includes an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen extending therethrough, a...
7220260 Electrosurgical system  
An electrosurgical system comprises a generator and an instrument including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating spacer separating the first and second electrodes. The generator...
7211084 Surgical system  
An electrosurgical cutting blade ( 1 ) comprises a first electrode ( 2 ), a second electrode ( 3 ), and an electrical insulator ( 4 ) separating the first and second electrodes. The first and...
7207990 Laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument  
A laparoscopic bipolar electrosurgical instrument can apply a large closure force between its jaws without damaging the small yoke assembly. The instrument comprises: a first jaw having a first...
7207989 Method for ablating with needle electrode  
A method for ablating tissue in or around the heart to create an enhanced lesion is provided. The distal end of a catheter including a needle electrode at its distal end is introduced into the...
7207471 Electrosurgical stapling apparatus  
An electrosurgical stapling apparatus is provided which uses thermogenic energy as well as surgical fasteners or staples for strengthening tissue, providing hemostasis, tissue joining or welding....
7204835 Surgical instrument  
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument comprises a handle ( 5 ), a body ( 1 ) joined to the handle, and a jaw assembly ( 12 ) joined to the body and arranged such that manipulation of the handle...
7195630 Converting cutting and coagulating electrosurgical device and method  
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument and method for use is provided. The instrument includes a handle at a proximal end, active and return electrodes at a distal end that are electrically insulated...
7186252 Endoscopic mucosal resection device and method of use  
A medical apparatus and method useful for resecting tissue from the gastrointestinal tract are disclosed. The apparatus can include an RF tissue cutting device disposed inward of a side opening in...
7177680 Field stimulation about a discontinuity of the myocardium to capture the heart at reduced pacing thresholds  
Improved pacing thresholds for capturing the heart are achieved by forming a discontinuity in the cardiac tissue of the heart chamber, disposing a pacing electrode at a distance less than a space...
7175621 Electrosurgical mode conversion system  
A surgical system that applies electrical energy to obtain predetermined surgical effects while improving the control of the application of the energy that is supplied by electrosurgical...
7169143 Methods for electrosurgical tissue treatment in electrically conductive fluid  
An electrosurgical probe comprises a shaft having at least one electrode terminal at its distal end and a connector at its proximal end. The electrode terminal may be spaced from a return electrode...
7156845 Method and apparatus for creating a bi-polar virtual electrode used for the ablation of tissue  
A method and apparatus for creating a virtual electrode to ablate bodily tissue. The apparatus includes an outer tube, a first electrode, an inner tube and a second electrode. The outer tube is...
7156844 Electrosurgical pencil with improved controls  
An electrosurgical pencil is provided which includes an elongated housing, an electrocautery blade supported within the housing and extending distally from the housing. The electrocautery blade is...
7150748 Bipolar coagulating instrument  
A bipolar coagulating instrument includes a blade-like electrode assembly comprising an upper planar face and a lower planar face separated by an intermediate portion of insulating material...
7147635 Bipolar electrosurgical snare  
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument including an introducer having a channel therein and an electrically conductive snare slidably positioned within the channel and slidable between an undeployed...
7147633 Method and apparatus for treatment of atrial fibrillation  
Methods and apparatus of embodiments of the invention are adapted to treat tissue inside a patient's body. Aspects of the invention can be used in a wide variety of applications, but certain...
7144395 Bipolar tubular shaft instrument  
A bipolar tubular shaft instrument ( 1 ) has instrument legs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), for the operation of which a pull- and/or push rod ( 6 ) is axially displaceable within a tube ( 7 ). These two parts...
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