Endoscopically-guided electro-cauterizing power-assisted fat aspiration system for aspirating visceral fat tissue within the abdomen of a patient
AssigneeRocin Laboratories, Inc.
InventorRobert L. Cucin
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Abstract
An endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system for performing fat aspiration operations, including an endoscopy subsystem for capturing and recording captured digital video images of the intra-abdominal region of a patient, and a twin-cannula powered fat aspiration subsystem having a powered hand-supportable fat aspiration instrument provided with a bipolar electro-cauterizing twin-cannula assembly.
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An endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system for performing fat aspiration operations typically in an operating room environment, on a patient having an abdominal region, said endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system comprising:
- an endoscopy subsystem having (i) a video probe provided with an embedded 2D high-resolution digital color image sensor with a field of view (FOV) for insertion into the abdominal region of the patient during a fat aspiration operation, (ii) one or more video monitors for displaying to surgeons and assistants, real-time digital color video images of said abdominal region captured along the FOV of said video probe, and (iii) digital recording equipment for recording captured digital video images of said abdominal region during said fat aspiration operation;
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- a twin-cannula powered visceral fat aspiration subsystem having a powered hand-supportable fat aspiration instrument having a housing and provided with a bipolar electro-cauterizing twin-cannula assembly including (i) an outer cannula mounted stationary with respect to said housing and having one or more outer aspiration apertures, and (ii) an inner cannula slidably disposed within said outer cannula and having at least one inner aspiration aperture that moves relative to said one or more outer aspiration apertures during operation of said twin-cannula powered visceral fat aspiration subsystem.
An endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system for performing visceral fat aspiration operations on a patient having an abdomen with a mesentery region, said endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system comprising:
- an endoscopy subsystem having a video probe with a field of view (FOV) for insertion into the abdomen of a patient, and (ii) one or more video monitors for displaying to one or more surgeons, real-time digital video images of the abdomen of the patient, captured along the FOV of said video probe;
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- a twin-cannula powered fat aspiration subsystem including a powered fat aspiration instrument having an instrument housing and a twin-cannula assembly provided with an inner cannula that reciprocates within an outer cannula mounted stationary to said instrument housing;
- wherein said outer cannula has a distal tip portion with at least one outer aspiration aperture, and said inner cannula has at least one inner aspiration aperture;
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- wherein said twin-cannula assembly is configured for insertion into the abdomen of the patient for aspirating fat tissue, including visceral fat tissue in the mesentery region of the abdomen, through said at least one outer aspiration aperture and said at least one inner aspiration aperture and towards a vacuum source operably connected to said powered fat aspiration instrument, while digital video images of the abdomen of the patient, are captured along the FOV of said video probe.
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