Surgical apparatus
AssigneeSociete dite Sinergy S.A.
InventorsJean-Francois Ognier, Hubert Manhes
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Abstract
Operative coelioscopy surgical apparatus for receiving electrical instruments, flexible mechanical instruments and rigid mechanical instruments. The apparatus includes a tubular canula and a handle member which is removably attached to the canula by a bayonet-type connection. The handle is provided with a series of control members which may be operated either simultaneously or separately, and these comprise a first push-button for controlling the transmission of irrigation fluids through the canula, a second push-button for controlling the aspiration of irrigation or body fluids through the canula, a third push-button for supplying electrical power and a lever member for mechanically controlling the movement of rigid and flexible instruments.
Claims11
Operative coelioscopy surgical apparatus for receiving electrical instruments, flexible mechanical instruments and rigid mechanical instruments, the apparatus comprising, in combination:
- a tubular canula for receiving said instruments and for permitting the passage of irrigation fluid and body fluid therethrough;
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- a handle removably connected to the canula and having a plurality of manually operable control means, said control means being operable either simultaneously or separately and including
- first means for controlling the transmission of irrigation fluid through the canula,
- second means for controlling the aspiration of body fluid through the canula,
- third means for the electrical control said electrical instruments, and
- fourth means for controlling said flexible mechanical instruments and said rigid mechanical instruments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.