Uterine manipulator
OwnerPrabhat Kumar Ahluwalia, Puja Ahluwaliainventors
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Abstract
Embodiments disclose uterine manipulators, dye delivery systems and fornix delineators that address several issues, such as minimizing surgical error, minimizing loss of parts inside a patients, enabling easy manipulation of a patient's anatomy, securing and removing the device into and from the patient atraumatically, preventing loss of pnuemoperitoneum, and securing the device fastener and components efficiently and atraumatically. An embodiment includes a uterine manipulator having a fornix delineator, uterine shaft, outer tube, fastener, handle, inlet, tip, ring and connecting string, and/or occluder.
Claims19
A medical device configured to define the vaginal fornices and/or surround the cervix, comprised of a fornix delineator having
- (i) a first end with a first opening having a first diameter, surrounded by a first rim adapted to contact and define a vaginal fornices or surround a cervix;
- (ii) a second end, opposite the first end, with a second opening and a second diameter adapted to receive a shaft or a tip;
- wherein the first opening and second opening are round or circular, wherein the first end and the second end are reversible ends adapted to receive a cervix;
- (iii) a third portion coupling the first end to the second end with an inner surface adapted to contact a cervix and an outer surface adapted to contact a vaginal wall;
- wherein the first end, second end, and third portion define an inner cavity configured to receive a cervix;
- (iv) a string with a first extremity and second extremity and a weight, wherein the first extremity is coupled to the fornix delineator on a first ridge positioned on a midway point between the first end and the second end and the second end is coupled to the weight.
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