Methods and systems for delivering a filled prosthetic bladder into a surgical cavity
AssigneeDr. Joe Gryskiewicz, L.L.C.
InventorsJoseph M. Gryskiewicz, James A. Peterson
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Abstract
A prosthetic insertion apparatus and related methods of use in delivering filled prosthetic bladders through a skin incision and into a surgical cavity or pocket. The prosthetic insertion apparatus imparts control and retention properties to a surgical professional such the prosthetic bladder can be oriented and manipulated into the surgical cavity without risk of inadvertent dropping of the prosthetic bladder and without imparting damaging stress or torque to the bladder. Suitable materials can be utilized that are selected as having advantageous properties including lubricity, rigidity, easily sterilizable, and high strength.
Claims13
A method for delivering a filled prosthetic bladder into a surgical cavity, comprising:
- placing a filled prosthetic bladder onto a first surface of a sheet, the sheet having a second surface on an opposite side of the sheet from the first surface and further including at least a pair of opposed lateral edges, bottom edge and a top edge,
- sequentially folding the top edge and the pair of lateral edges over the filled prostheses bladder such that a folded sheet with a single opening is defined at the bottom edge;
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- manipulating the folded sheet to direct the filled prosthetic bladder out the single opening and into a surgical cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.