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US 7,025,065 B2Granted
Method of testing thermal cautery devices
AssigneeStarion Instruments Corporation
InventorsThomas H. McGaffigan, Jan M. Echeverry, Donielle Boudin, Peter Carlotto, Huy Le
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Abstract
Thermal cautery and thermal ligating devices improved by the addition of a thermally conductive plate proximate the resistive heating element used in those devices.
Claims6
A method of testing surgical devices comprising:
- providing a surgical device, said surgical device comprising means for thermally affecting body tissue of a human;
- providing an earth worm as a model of human body tissue;
- applying the surgical device to the earth worm and applying power to the device to thermally affect the earth worm;
- determining the suitability of the device for use on human body tissue based on the observed effect on the earth worm.
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