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US 10,376,414 B2Granted
Uni-port hybrid gauge surgical apparatuses and methods
AssigneeNovartis AG
InventorsPaul R. Hallen, Walter J. Stark, III
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses, and methods include a surgical apparatus with a handle for grasping by a user and a multi-function surgical portion extending therefrom. The multi-function surgical portion may include an illuminator portion arranged to provide illumination to a surgical region of a patient during a surgical procedure, and tissue-treating portion coaxially aligned with the illuminator portion.
Claims17
A multi-function surgical apparatus, comprising:
- a handle for grasping by a user;
- an illuminator portion extending from a portion of the handle and arranged to provide illumination to a surgical region of a patient during a surgical procedure;
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- a vitrectomy cutter portion extending from the handle portion and coaxially aligned with the illuminator portion, the vitrectomy cutter portion including a port for aspirating vitreous humor, the illuminator portion being disposed to illuminate the surgical region about the port;
- a cannula including illumination features configured to illuminate a portion of the surgical region, the cannula being sized to receive the illuminator portion and the vitrectomy cutter portion therethrough.
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A surgical apparatus, comprising:
- a handle portion for grasping by a user;
- and
- a needle portion extending from the handle portion, comprising:
- an infusion portion extending distally from the handle portion and having a lumen and an infusion port arranged to introduce infusion fluid to a surgical region of a patient, the infusion portion having a first cross-sectional width;
- an illuminator portion extending distally from the handle portion and arranged to provide illumination to the surgical region, the illuminator portion having a second cross-sectional width different than the first cross-sectional width;
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- a tissue-treatment portion extending distally beyond one of the illuminator portion and the infusion portion, the tissue-treatment portion having a third cross-sectional width different than the first and the second cross-sectional widths;
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- a cannula including illumination features configured to illuminate a portion of the surgical region, the cannula being sized to receive the infusion portion, the illuminator portion, and the tissue-treatment portion therethrough.
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A method for treating a patient with a multi-function surgical apparatus, comprising:
- introducing into a patient through a single incision, an infusion portion arranged to introduce infusion fluid to a surgical region, an illuminator portion arranged to provide illumination to a portion of the patient, a tissue-treatment portion configured to engage tissue or liquid within the patient, and a cannula including illumination features configured to illuminate a portion of the surgical region, the cannula being sized to receive the infusion portion, the illuminator portion, and the tissue-treatment portion therethrough;
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- simultaneously performing the following:
- introducing an infusion fluid through the infusion portion;
- introducing illumination with the illuminator portion;
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- treating the patient with the tissue-treatment portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.