Multi-implement surgical device
AssigneeAlcon Inc.
InventorsAlexander Doppelstein, Reto Grüebler
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Abstract
A device for surgery that accommodates multiple different implements. The implements may be exchanged or changed out for one another over the course of a surgery in a manner that does not require disengagement of the device from a surgical site. As a result, the need to re-insert the device into the patient and other hazards associated with multiple trips into the surgical site may be minimized. In one embodiment, the device includes cannula architecture to avoid use of a separate cannula at the surgical site.
Claims8
A multi-implement device for surgery at a surgical site on a patient, the device comprising:
- a tubular guide;
- a first retractable surgical implement to extend from a body of the device and through the tubular guide to facilitate a first application during the surgery;
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- a second retractable surgical implement to extend from the body and through the tubular guide to facilitate a second application during the surgery, the first retractable surgical implement retracted through the tubular guide during the extending of the second retractable surgical implement;
- wherein the device comprises a proximal end and a distal end;
- wherein the tubular guide extends from the distal end;
- wherein the first retractable surgical implement comprises a first driving mandrel coupled to a first actuator specific to the first retractable surgical implement;
- wherein the second retractable surgical implement comprises a second driving mandrel coupled to a second actuator specific to the second retractable surgical implement;
- wherein the first and second actuator are accessible by a finger of a user and are configured to be driven linearly toward the distal end upon being depressed by the finger toward the distal end for deployment of a corresponding first or second retractable surgical implement;
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- wherein depression of the first or second actuator by the finger toward the distal end results in a corresponding release of the other of the first or second actuator and a subsequent linear travel of the other of the first or second retractable surgical implement toward the proximal end of the device to retract the corresponding first or second retractable surgical implement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.