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7621909 |
Electrosurgical pencil with drag sensing capability
An electrosurgical pencil configured and adapted to support an electrocautery blade. A strain gauge is affixed to the proximal end of the electrocautery blade and measures the displacement of the...
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7611510 |
APC dual mode LEEP apparatus and method
A multi-mode LLETZ or LEEP device for performing LLETZ surgery and argon plasma coagulation using a single device is disclosed. The disclosed device has a body with a channel therein and movable...
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7608072 |
Surgical methods and apparatus for maintaining contact between tissue and electrophysiology elements and confirming whether a therapeutic lesion has been formed
Surgical systems, devices and methods including one or more tissue stimulation elements that, in some instances, may also be used for sensing purposes. Some of the surgical devices also include a...
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7601150 |
Method and apparatus for plasma surgery
An apparatus for argon-plasma coagulation (APC) is disclosed, in which after activation of the apparatus for APC a specified amount of noble gas flows out of the APC instrument before the...
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7594914 |
Incision and closure surgical device
Incision and closure surgical device designed to assist in operative surgery as a means of effecting and repairing skin wounds. A slide fastener is fitted to a self-adhesive sheet that is attached...
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7585295 |
Thermal airflow tool and system
A combination pressurized airflow and thermal cutting tool constructed as a dual-use thermal airflow tool for directed heating and drying of a specific area in surgical procedures, such as, by way...
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7582085 |
Catheter placement detection system and operator interface
A system for facilitating the placement of a catheter within the human body, in a lumen or vessel such as the fallopian tubes, and controlling the catheter after placement. The system coordinates...
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7582084 |
Systems and methods for controlling power in an electrosurgical probe
Systems and methods for controlling the power supplied to an electrosurgical probe. The systems and methods may be used to monitor electrode-tissue contact, adjust power in response to a loss of...
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7578818 |
Articulating ionizable gas coagulator
An electrosurgical apparatus for coagulating tissue includes an elongated flexible tube having a proximal end, a distal end and a source for supplying pressurized ionizable gas to the proximal end...
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7578817 |
Combination argon plasma coagulation and electrocautery device and method
A combination argon plasma coagulation (APC) and monopolar electrosurgical device and method are shown. An electrosurgical tool such as a spatula, hook, ball, or the like has a neck and a plurality...
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7572257 |
Vacuum coagulation and dissection probes
A surgical device integrating a suction mechanism with a coagulation mechanism is provided for improving lesion creation capabilities. The device comprises an elongate member having an insulative...
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7572255 |
Gas-enhanced surgical instrument
A gas-enhanced electrosurgical instrument includes a hand-held applicator and a portable actuator assembly. The hand-held applicator has a gas delivery member adapted to deliver pressurized...
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7566334 |
Ablation device with jaws
System, device and method for ablating target tissue adjacent pulmonary veins of a patient through an incision. An ablation device can include a hinge including a cam assembly, a moving arm, a...
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7566333 |
Electrosurgical device with floating-potential electrode and methods of using the same
The present invention relates to electrosurgical probes suitable for tissue vaporization and cutting of tissue structures, more particularly for performing electrosurgical cutting, ablation...
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7563261 |
Electrosurgical device with floating-potential electrodes
An electrosurgical instrument, system and methods are provided for the vaporization, cutting, coagulation, or treatment of tissue in the presence of an electrically conductive fluid medium. The...
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7549990 |
Surgical scissors with argon plasma coagulation capability
Surgical scissors having argon plasma coagulation capability are shown. The surgical scissors include in their body a channel for receiving a flexible tube having a wire within it. The flexible...
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7549989 |
Electrosurgery devices
Devices for electrosurgery by means of oxy-hydro combustion. Deleterious effects to tissue are minimized by means of control of acid-base shift reactions, which reactions can further be employed to...
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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...
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7537594 |
Suction coagulator with dissecting probe
An electrosurgical suction coagulator includes a handle having an elongated tube electrode or conductive suction tube extending from a distal end of the handle. The elongated suction tube includes...
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7534243 |
Dissection and welding of tissue
A tissue dissector and method for welding and severing blood vessels includes advancing the tip of a tissue-dissecting surgical instrument through tissue, with a tissue welder substantially...
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7517349 |
Electrosurgical instrument and method
An electrosurgical instrument and method for treating varicose veins. In one embodiment, an elongate catheter has a distal working end that carries an electrosurgical energy delivery surface...
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7507239 |
Surgical instruments and techniques for treating gastro-esophageal reflux disease
An apparatus to treat tissue in a selected wall region of an esophagus is provided. In one embodiment the apparatus includes an elongate member having a circumference and is sized to be deployed in...
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7507232 |
Flexible electrosurgical electrode with manipulator
An electrosurgical instrument that is configured for use in MIS electrosurgical procedures, comprises a handpiece with a separable electrosurgical electrode in the form of a micro-fiber, comprising...
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7500974 |
Electrode with rotatably deployable sheath
A sheath system for selectively covering a distal end of an electrocautery blade is provided. The sheath system includes a hub having a body portion defining a lumen therethrough and a sheath...
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7481807 |
Radiofrequency arthroscopic ablation device
A surgical device includes an elongated shaft having first and second electrically isolated electrodes coupled to the shaft such that an exposed portion of the second electrode is disposed around...
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7480533 |
Ablation treatment of bone metastases
Ablative treatment of metastatic bone tumors and relief of pain associated with metastatic bone tumors is achieved by heat ablation of the bone tumor or tissue near the bone tumor by an ablation...
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7474909 |
Apparatus for mapping and coagulating soft tissue in or around body orifices
A probe that may be used to create circumferential lesions in body tissue and, in some implementations, may also be used to perform mapping functions. The probe includes a collapsible/expandable...
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7473252 |
Systems and methods for shrinking and/or securing cardiovascular tissue
Systems and methods for treating cardiac tissue are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention is directed to treating cardiac tissue that includes a primum, a secundum...
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7467075 |
Three-dimensional finite-element code for electrosurgery and thermal ablation simulations
A system and method for performing a simulation of an electrosurgical procedure are disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating a three-dimensional medium, which includes one or more...
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7458974 |
Apparatus and method for electrically induced thrombosis
An apparatus and method for electrically induced thrombosis. The surgical device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is for placement adjacent to, near, or within...
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7449021 |
Systems and methods for electrosurgical tissue contraction within the spine
The present invention provides systems and methods for selectively applying electrical energy to a target location within a patient's body, particularly including tissue in the spine. The present...
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7445619 |
Devices for electrosurgery
Devices for electrosurgery by means of oxy-hydro combustion and methods for use of such devices in electrosurgical procedures. Provided are devices for combustion of oxygen and hydrogen, or other...
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7442193 |
Electrically conductive/insulative over-shoe for tissue fusion
An over shoe for use with electrosurgical instruments having a pair of juxtaposed jaw members pivotably associated with one another, at least one of which includes an electrically conductive...
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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...
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7438714 |
Vacuum-based catheter stabilizer
A medical probe for use with tissue includes an elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end, an operative element carried at the distal end of the elongate member, and a stabilizer...
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7435250 |
Method and apparatus for tissue ablation
A device for ablating tissue is provided. The device comprises a conductive element with a channel for irrigating fluid formed therein, which is in contact with a non-conductive microporous...
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7422591 |
Apparatus for converting a clamp into an electrophysiology device
An apparatus for use with a clamp including a base member configured to be secured to the clamp and at least one energy transmission device carried by the base member. An apparatus for use with a...
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7422588 |
Pen-type electrosurgical instrument
An electrocautery device is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the electrocautery electrode/tip is provided with a hollow, conductive tube terminating at its distal end in a...
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7419489 |
Ablation catheter assembly having a virtual electrode comprising portholes
An ablation catheter having a catheter shaft and a virtual electrode, the virtual electrode comprising portholes through an outer peripheral wall of the catheter shaft and a metal electrode, the...
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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...
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7410487 |
Vacuum coagulation probe for atrial fibrillation treatment
An embodiment of the invention includes a surgical device for coagulating soft tissue such as atrial tissue in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and atrial tachycardia. The...
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7406970 |
Method of using expandable vein ligator catheter having multiple electrode leads
A catheter includes a plurality of primary leads to deliver energy for ligating a hollow anatomical structure. Each of the primary leads includes an electrode located at the working end of the...
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7399300 |
Cardiac ablation devices and methods
Devices and methods provide for ablation of cardiac tissue for treating cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation. Although the devices and methods are often be used to ablate epicardial...
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7393354 |
Electrosurgical pencil with drag sensing capability
An electrosurgical pencil ( 100 ) configured and adapted to support an electrocautery blade ( 116 ). A strain gauge ( 130 ) is affixed to the proximal, end of the electrocautery blade and measures...
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7390326 |
Anti-microbial electrosurgical electrode and method of manufacturing same
An electrosurgical device including a reinforcing underlayment having a non-stick, anti-microbial coating. In one embodiment, the coating includes a non-stick material having anti-microbial...
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7367973 |
Electro-surgical instrument with replaceable end-effectors and inhibited surface conduction
Improved robotic surgery end-effectors include at least one insulation material for inhibiting surface conduction of electrical current in a proximal direction, from a distal active electrode...
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7364579 |
Fluid-assisted electrosurgical device
An electrocautery device is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the electrocautery electrode/tip is provided with a hollow, conductive tube terminating at its distal end in a...
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7361175 |
Plasma surgical device
A plasma surgical device for reducing bleeding in live tissue by means of a gas plasma. The device comprises a plasma-generating system having an anode ( 1 ), a cathode ( 8 ) and a gas supply...
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7361172 |
Ultrasonic device and method for tissue coagulation
An ultrasonic surgical device for the coagulation of animal tissue having an ultrasonic applicator and a movable jaw with a jaw surface adjacent the distal portion of the ultrasonic applicator for...
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7357799 |
Thermal coagulation using hyperconductive fluids
This invention relates to the use of hyperconductive fluids to coagulate tissue within the intervertebral disc.
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