Virtual ports devices and method
AssigneeVirtual Ports Ltd.
InventorAdrian Paz
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Abstract
A device auxiliary to surgery, for anchoring and lifting cavity walls or internal organs of a patient. The device provides a virtual port, that is an instrument that can he non-invasively, or minimally invasively and removably attached to the undersurface of a patient's cavity, or to various tissues within a cavity, and to which various retracting means are attached. The device includes means allowing it to be moved from one position to another and reattached to the undersurface of the abdominal wall, or to various tissues within a cavity, without creating any additional openings in the cavity wall. The device includes means for attaching various retractors.
Claims13
1-28. (canceled)
An anchoring device for use in surgery within a cavity of the human body, comprising connected first and second attaching means, said first attaching means for attaching the device to an internal surface within a cavity of the human body and said second attaching means for attaching to surgical instruments or devices within said cavity.
An anchoring system for surgery within a cavity of the human body, comprising;
- at least one anchoring device according to claim 1;
- at least one surgical instrument or device releasably attached to the second attaching means of said anchoring device;
- a controlling means releasably attached to said anchoring device or surgical instrument such that said controlling means is used to install said anchoring means or surgical instrument into a cavity of the human body, to remove them therefrom and optionally to relocate the anchoring means within the cavity, at least one portion of said controlling means is operated by the operator from outside the body.
A method of performing surgery within a cavity of the human body by;
- introducing, into said cavity, at least one anchoring means, comprising connected first and second attaching means;
- attaching said first attaching means to an internal surface within said cavity;
- and
- attaching surgical instruments to said second attaching means;
- such that the surgical apparatus is contained within the cavity of the human body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.