Device to accommodate multiple ports through a single incision for laparoscopic surgery
OwnerThomas Frederick Helmsworthinventor
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Abstract
A device to accommodate multiple ports through a single incision for laparoscopic surgery for replacing the three to four incisions required by standard laparoscopic surgeries with a single incision. The device to accommodate multiple ports through a single incision for laparoscopic surgery includes an incision access member having a cylindrical body with bores for accommodating various surgical instruments inside a person's body through an incision in a body cavity wall of a person.
Claims13
A device to accommodate multiple ports through a single incision for laparoscopic surgery comprising:
- an incision access member having a solid cylindrical body with body cavity wall engagement members disposed at opposed ends of the solid cylindrical body, the incision access member operative to accommodate surgical instruments inside a person's body when the incision access member is inserted through an incision in a body cavity wall of the person's body.
A device to accommodate multiple ports through a single incision for laparoscopic surgery comprising:
- an incision access member having a solid cylindrical body with body cavity wall engagement members disposed at opposed ends of the solid cylindrical body for accommodating surgical instruments inserted inside a person's body via the incision access member when the incision access member is inserted through a single incision in a body cavity wall of a person, the incision access member including bores extending lengthwise through the incision access member and through the opposed ends to receive the surgical instruments, the body cavity wall engagement members having first and second annular flanges disposed at the opposed ends of the cylindrical body, the incision access member adapted to be removably inserted inside the single incision with a longitudinal axis of the incision access member disposed perpendicular to a plane of the body cavity wall of the person, the incision access member having a beveled recess in one of the opposed ends to aid in a surgical procedure, the first annular flange configured to be removably received through the single incision of the person in contactable relationship with an inner side of the body cavity wall exposed by the single incision, and the second annular flange configured to be in contactable relationship with an outer side of the body cavity wall at the single incision, the bores each having a different sized diameter to accommodate the reception of surgical instruments.
A method of accommodating multiple ports through a single incision for laparoscopic surgery comprising:
- providing an incision access member having a solid cylindrical body, annular flanges and bores extending through the solid cylindrical body of the incision access member;
- removably inserting one of the annular flanges and the cylindrical body of the incision access member in a single incision;
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- securing the annular flanges to a body cavity wall at the single incision.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.