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US 2014/0194695 A1Published application
Tissue retractors with fluid evacuation/infusion and/or light emission capability
AssigneeEndoscopic Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTamer Ibrahim, Michael J. Banchieri
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Abstract
Retractor apparatus including a blade and a fluid port and/or a light emitter associated with blade, and surgical systems including an arm and a retractor apparatus.
Claims22
1-42. (canceled)
A retractor apparatus, comprising:
- a retractor including
- a longitudinally extending blade having a tissue contact side and a second side opposite the tissue contact side, and
- a fluid port projecting outwardly from the tissue contact side of the blade, the fluid port including a plurality of openings that face in different directions;
- and
- a connector associated with the retractor and configured to secure the retractor to a mechanical arm.
2 more elements
A surgical system, comprising:
- an arm;
- and
- a retractor, operably connected to the arm, including a longitudinally extending blade having a tissue contact side and a second side opposite the tissue contact side, and a fluid port projecting outwardly from the tissue contact side of the blade, the fluid port including a plurality of openings that face in different directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.