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8182479 |
Surgical glove system
A surgical system including a surgical glove having support systems such as, but not limited to, lights, electrical cautery, suction, and irrigation. The surgical glove may include one or more...
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8182480 |
Insulated tube for suction coagulator
An electrosurgical suction coagulator includes a housing having proximal and distal ends and a substantially malleable elongated tube-like shaft extending longitudinally from a distal end thereof....
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8182481 |
PFO closing device
A PFO closing device includes a suction and hold portion at a distal portion of a catheter for sucking and holding biological tissue of a foramen ovale valve and an atrial septum secundum from one...
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8182478 |
Electrosurgical instrument and type series for electrosurgical instruments
The invention relates to a bipolar electrosurgical instrument comprising a handle and a tool head. In the case of bipolar instruments, at least two mutually separate conducting paths must be...
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8177784 |
Electrosurgical device having floating potential electrode and adapted for use with a resectoscope
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an electrosurgical device that include one or more floating electrodes and are specifically adapted to remove, cut, resect, ablate, vaporize, denaturize, drill,...
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8167879 |
Combination tissue removal and cauterization instrument
A combination tissue removal and cauterization instrument includes one or more heads configured to remove tissue by mechanical cutting action resulting from rotation, vibration and/or other type of...
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8147483 |
Device for cauterising tissue and uses thereof
The present invention provides a device for cauterising tissue, the device arranged to be mounted to a biopsy and/or sampling instrument and including a conductive cauterising portion and means for...
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8146603 |
Method for ablating body tissue
A tissue ablation system for treating fibrillation in a patient comprises a steerable interventional catheter having an energy source that emits a beam of energy to ablate tissue thereby creating a...
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8147489 |
Open vessel sealing instrument
A disposable open electrosurgical forceps for sealing tissue is disclosed in the present disclosure. The disposable open electrosurgical forceps comprise a pair of first and second shaft members...
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8137346 |
Electrosurgical lesion location device
A device for localizing a target tissue mass in a body includes a tubular trocar portion having a distal end and a proximal end portion that is removably attachable to a handle portion. The trocar...
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8133223 |
Automatically retracting needle-tip electrocautery device
Medical devices that useful during electrocauterization procedures. The present invention encompasses a needle-tipped electrocautery device in which the needle tip is housed within the body of the...
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8133221 |
Energy based devices and methods for treatment of anatomic tissue defects
Methods for treating anatomic tissue defects such as patent foramen ovale (PFO) generally involve positioning a distal end of an elongate catheter device at the site of the anatomic defect,...
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8128622 |
Electrosurgical pencil having a single button variable control
The present disclosure is directed to electrosurgical pencils having variable controls. In one aspect, the electrosurgical pencil, includes an elongated housing, an electrocautery blade supported...
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8128623 |
Thermal cautery surgical forceps
A portable, thermal cauterizing forceps device for use in surgery. The device incorporates a pair of ceramic heater elements mounted within the tips of the tines of a forceps. The forceps is used...
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8109929 |
Medical instrument for coagulation of tissue
A medical instrument for coagulation of tissue has an electrode carrier and, at a distal end of the electrode carrier, an electrode that can be supplied with high-frequency current. The medical...
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8109274 |
Methods and electrode apparatus to achieve a closure of a layered tissue defect
Methods for treating anatomic tissue defects such as a patent foramen ovale generally involve positioning a distal end of a catheter device at the site of the defect, exposing a housing and energy...
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8100899 |
Combined endocardial and epicardial magnetically coupled ablation device
A device for automatically aligning bipolar electrodes on opposing sides of operative tissue is provided for performing minimally invasive RF ablation. The device includes complementary magnetic...
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8100902 |
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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8100906 |
Electrosurgical instrument
The invention relates to an electrosurgical instrument for cutting and/or coagulating a tissue to be treated, comprising at least one cutting electrode for conducting a high-frequency (“HF”) cur...
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8096990 |
Ablative treatment of the heart to improve patient outcomes following surgery
Devices and methods are described for ablation of cardiac tissue for treating cardiac arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation. Devices may include a tissue contacting member for contacting...
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8083737 |
Gas-enhanced surgical instrument with mechanism for cylinder puncture
A surgical instrument for providing an ionized gas to a surgical site includes a receptacle for a cylinder of pressurized surgical gas and a frame having a port near the distal end for emitting the...
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8066704 |
Suction ablator
An improved electrode for electrosurgery comprises at least one orifice in the active surface of the electrode connected to a lumen in the probe of larger cross-sectional area than the area of the...
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8052684 |
Irrigated ablation catheter having parallel external flow and proximally tapered electrode
Embodiments of the present invention provide an irrigated catheter having irrigation fluid directed at a taper angle generally in parallel with a proximally tapered portion of the tip electrode to...
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8052681 |
High-frequency incision instrument for endoscope
A high-frequency incision instrument for an endoscope configured to project forward and retreat, through a forward end portion of a flexible over tube, a rod electrode disposed close thereto by...
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8048070 |
Fluid-assisted medical devices, systems and methods
Surgical devices for treating tissue are provided. Also provided are systems for treating tissue and methods of treating tissue. An exemplary surgical device has a handle, a fluid passage...
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8043287 |
Method of treating biological tissue
A treatment method is disclosed for treating a bodily tissue utilizing one or more steps of removal of material as well as one or more steps of energy delivery in order to effectively treat the...
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8038670 |
Fluid-assisted medical devices, systems and methods
Surgical devices for treating tissue are provided. Also provided are systems for treating tissue and methods of treating tissue. An exemplary surgical device has a handle, a fluid passage...
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8034053 |
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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8034052 |
Apparatus and method for electrode thermosurgery
An instrument for tissue ablation includes an elongated tissue-penetrating electrode including a rigid tubular member having a closed distal end defining an interior cavity extending from the...
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8025661 |
Coaxial catheter instruments for ablation with radiant energy
A cardiac ablation instrument includes a catheter body and a tear-shaped balloon that is connected to the catheter body. The instrument further includes a radiant energy emitter that is axially...
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8022327 |
Switch, circuitry, and method of assembly for electrosurgical pencil
Formation of an assemblage of electrically conductive components for a new electrosurgical pencil is disclosed, and assembly of those components in a method for automating the manufacture and...
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RE42724 |
Method and apparatus for performing cardiac ablations
A novel device and method for performing cardiac ablations includes a therapeutic instrument, for example, an ablation catheter, to which is mounted a flexible, braided electrode. The electrode...
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8016824 |
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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8016826 |
Foam electrode and method of use thereof during tissue resection
Assemblies and methods are provided for resecting a portion of tissue to be removed (e.g., unhealthy tissue, such as cancerous tissue) from a portion of the tissue to be retained (e.g., healthy...
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8002770 |
Clamp based methods and apparatus for forming lesions in tissue 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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7998141 |
Irrigated catheter and method, in particular for ablation and like techniques
The invention relates to a variety of catheters provided with an elongate body with an electrically conductive first end. Wherein through said elongate body at least one conductive wire extends...
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7998138 |
Occlusion apparatus
Methods, apparatus, and systems for occluding a left atrial appendage are provided. One embodiment includes an elongate body having a tissue apposition member extendably positioned within a lumen...
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7998095 |
Occlusion device
Methods, apparatus, and systems for repairing defective occlusions are provided. One embodiment includes an elongate body having a first lumen extending from a proximal end toward a distal end of...
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7998140 |
Fluid-assisted medical devices, systems and methods
Surgical devices for treating tissue are provided. Also provided are systems for treating tissue and methods of treating tissue. An exemplary surgical device has a handle, a shaft extending from...
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7993337 |
Circumferential ablation device assembly
A circumferential ablation device assembly which is adapted to forming a circumferential conduction block in a pulmonary vein is described. The assembly includes a circumferential oblation clement...
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7993339 |
Apparatus for argon-plasma coagulation
The invention relates to an apparatus for argon-plasma coagulation in which working gas is supplied to a tissue that is to be treated by passage through gas-supply devices (20) in a supply-flow...
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7988690 |
Welding systems useful for closure of cardiac openings
A welding element is provided for applying heat, chemicals, pressure, or any combination thereof to tissues inside a patient's body, e.g., a patent foramen ovale. In one aspect, the welding element...
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7981113 |
Electrosurgical instrument
An embodiment of the invention includes an electrosurgical jaw structure that carries cooperating PTC bodies in both series and parallel circuit components for controlled RF energy application to...
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7975703 |
Device and method for needle-less interstitial injection of fluid for ablation of cardiac tissue
Methods and apparatus for delivering precise amounts of fluid under pressure into cardiac tissue for the purpose of facilitating ablation of the tissue along a desired lesion line. One method...
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7972329 |
Electrosurgical generator and method for cross-checking output power
The functionality and the output power delivered are evaluated in an electrosurgical generator by calculating first and second values related to the output power delivered by using separate first...
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7967816 |
Fluid-assisted electrosurgical instrument with shapeable electrode
An electrosurgical instrument including an elongated shaft and a non-conductive handle. The shaft defines a proximal section, a distal section, and an internal lumen extending from the proximal...
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7967818 |
Cautery catheter
A cautery catheter is described having an expandable and electrically conductive mesh that can cauterize treatment sites having large effective surface areas. The mesh is composed of interwoven...
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7959633 |
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...
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7955637 |
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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7955326 |
Pressure-sensitive conductive composite electrode and method for ablation
The present invention is directed to ablation devices and methods utilizing pressure sensitive conductive composites, such as quantum tunneling composites, or other contact-sensitive, conductive...
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