Methods and Devices for Providing Access into a Body Cavity
AssigneeCilag GmbH International
InventorsChristopher W. Widenhouse, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
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Abstract
Methods and devices are provided for providing surgical access into a body cavity. In one embodiment, a surgical access device is provided that includes a housing coupled to a retractor. The housing can be have one or more movable sealing ports for receiving surgical instruments. Each movable sealing port can include one or more sealing elements therein for sealing the port and/or forming a seal around a surgical instrument disposed therethrough. Each movable sealing port can be rotatable relative to the housing and each sealing element can be rotatable relative to the housing along a predetermined orbital path.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A surgical device, comprising:
- a distal portion of a surgical access device configured to be positioned in tissue to provide access through the tissue into a patient;
- and
- a proximal portion of the surgical access device, the proximal portion including a first surgical access port located at a proximal top of the proximal portion of the surgical access device and configured to receive a first surgical instrument therethrough and form a seal therearound, and the proximal portion including a second surgical access port located at a side of the proximal portion of the surgical access device and configured to receive a second surgical instrument therethrough and form a seal therearound;
- wherein the first surgical access port is configured to move relative to the distal portion of the surgical access device with the second surgical access port staying in a fixed radial position relative to the distal portion of the surgical access device.
A surgical method, comprising:
- positioning a distal portion of a surgical access device in tissue of a patient;
- advancing a first surgical instrument through a first surgical access port in a proximal portion of the surgical access device that is removably and replaceably coupled to the distal portion of the surgical access device, the first surgical access port being located at a proximal top of the proximal portion of the surgical access device;
- and
- with the first surgical instrument advanced through the first surgical access port, moving the first surgical access port relative to the distal portion of the surgical access device, a second surgical access port of the surgical access device staying in a fixed radial position relative to the distal portion of the surgical access device, the second surgical access port being located at a side of the proximal portion of the surgical access device.
A surgical method, comprising:
- advancing a retractor through a side surgical access port of a surgical access device to position a distal end of the retractor within the body of the patient, the side surgical access port being located in a sidewall of the surgical access device;
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- with the retractor advanced through the side surgical access port, moving a top surgical access port relative to the side surgical access port, the side surgical access port staying in a fixed radial position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.