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US 2015/0088134 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for electrosurgical suction with finger actuated suction control
AssigneeConmed Corporation
InventorsNoah Mark Minskoff, Nathan Andrew Terry
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Abstract
The invention pertains to techniques or processes for managing surgical smoke. In one embodiment a suction apparatus evacuates the surgical smoke. For example, the suction apparatus may be arranged adjacent to an electrocautery electrode, which may generate smoke during operation, for evacuating smoke from a surgical site.
Claims20
A suction apparatus for use with a surgical instrument, comprising:
- an attachment housing;
- a suction tube having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end of the suction tube fluidly coupled to an output port via the attachment housing;
- a suction control port fluidly coupled to the proximate end of the suction tube;
- a control slideably coupled to the attachment housing to variably seal at least one control port, the at least one control port in fluid communication with the suction tube to control suction at the distal end of the suction tube, the at least one control port to also be variably sealed by an operator's finger to variably control suction at the distal end of the suction tube.
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A suction apparatus for an electrosurgical pencil having an electrocautery electrode comprising:
- a control slideably coupled to an attachment housing to variably seal at least one control port;
- a suction tube having proximal and distal ends, the proximal end of the suction tube fluidly coupled to the at least one control port via the attachment housing, the at least one control port configured to also be variably sealed by an operator's finger to variably control suction at the distal end of the suction tube.
A method for using a surgical instrument that generates smoke, comprising:
- releasably receiving the surgical instrument within an inner perimeter of an attachment housing, the attachment housing comprising a suction tube, a smoke intake manifold having a plurality of suction intake ports, a fluid output port in fluid communication with the suction tube, and a smoke output port in fluid communication with the smoke intake manifold;
- generating smoke by using the surgical instrument;
- evacuating the smoke via the suction intake ports of the smoke intake manifold;
- outputting the smoke via the smoke output port;
- evacuating liquid via the suction tube during surgical operations with the surgical instrument;
- outputting the liquid via the liquid output port;
- controlling an amount of suction provided by the suction tube to evacuate liquid by variably aligning a first control port and a second control port;
- controlling the amount of suction provided by the suction tube by sealing the first control port with an operator's finger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.