Abstract:
In a surgical suturing needle having opposite pointed tips and a mid-section provided with an eye for receiving and retaining a surgical thread and being bent corresponding to a path of movement of the needle when transferred between the jaws of a suturing instrument, the pointed needle tips have a cone angle of between 25 and 35.degree. for non-traumatic piercing of the tissue to be sutured and, adjacent both of its opposite pointed tips, the needle has recessed surface areas to be engaged by pressure pins disposed in the jaws of the suturing instrument for firmly retaining and engaging the needle with the jaws in a predetermined position.
Abstract:
In a device for inserting a surgical suture needle into an endoscopic suture apparatus wherein the device includes two legs which are movable relative to each other, one of the legs has a front end with means for receiving a jaw of an endoscopic suturing apparatus and the other leg has needle engagement means for holding a surgical needle in a predetermined position such that one needle tip enters a needle support of the surgical suturing apparatus jaw when the other leg holding the needle is moved toward the one leg while the one leg is disposed on the surgical suturing apparatus jaw.
Abstract:
Apparatus for shock wave therapy comprises an electroacoustic therapeutic transducer for generating ultrasonic shock waves, which are transmitted by way of a coupling medium shock wave transmission section of the transducer, bounded by a membrane, to the body of a patient reclining on a therapy table. In the interest of hygiene the membrane is releasably attached by its marginal area to the therapy table, being thereby exchangeable so that a new membrane can be provided for each patient. The extraction of gas from the coupling medium following exchange of the membrane is provided for.
Abstract:
A lithotripter comprises a transducer for generating focussed ultrasonic shock waves, and having an axis, a focus on said axis, the focus being positionable on a concretion or tissue which is to be destroyed, at least one diagnostic X-ray imaging system for locating the concretion of tissue including an X-ray emitter having an axis and an image intensifier, and at least one ultrasonic locating transducer having an axis, the X-ray emitter and the ultrasonic locating transducer being connected to the shock wave transducer in such a way that the axes of the locating systems intersect at said focus, with the axes of the locating systems preferably being offset from the axis of the shock wave transducer.
Abstract:
Apparatus for spatial location and destruction of an object inside a patient's body by means of ultrasound transmitted to the patient's body via a coupling fluid, the apparatus comprises a focusing transducer for generating the ultrasound piezoelectrically to destroy the object, at least two transmitting and receiving locating transducers for locating the object under visual observation, said at least two locating transducers being incorporated, installed or mounted in said focusing transducer and being operable to generate B-images which are displayed optionally individually and/or in combination as a spatial image on at least one monitor, there being preferably, three such locating transducers for generating the B-images.
Abstract:
The light projector provided with a system for setting the intensity of illumination for a cavity which is being filmed by means of a video camera, and from which the picture is shown on a monitor screen. The video signal from the camera is supplied as an actual value to a comparator which, as a function of the signal and of an adjustable reference value, drives a servo-motor connected to its output side, which adjusts the intensity of illumination within the cavity by means of a shutter situated in the beam path of the light projector.
Abstract:
Insufflation gas from a compressed gas source is introduced into a body cavity through a tube connected to the source by an insufflation duct, the pressure in the body cavity being measured by a pressure gauge connected to the body cavity by a measuring duct, and any deviations from a preselected gas pressure for the body cavity being sensed in the measuring duct by control means operative to open or close a valve in the insufflation duct to control the pressure of the gas in the body cavity.
Abstract:
A multi-ligator device that provides a signal to an operator indicating the release of a ligation ring from the ligator head. Thus, greatly simplifying the use of mechanically decoupled ligator-devices and relieving an operator from having to sense via transmitted vibrations when a ligation ring is detached from a ligator head. The multi-ligator device is constructed using a control unit to operate a ligator head that is connected to the control unit via a flexible shaft. The ligator head supports a plurality of ligation rings that are released by operating the control unit. When a ligation ring is released a signal is generated. The signal can be any one, or a combination, of a mechanical, acoustical, and a visual signal. Additionally, a kit for mounting a ligation ring on a ligator head uses a shaft having a cone-shaped portion to stretch the ligation ring. A lubricant is applied to both the ligation ring and shaft to facilitate the manipulation of the ligation ring. A ring loader is used to push the ligation ring from the tip of the cone shaped portion onto a cylindrical portion of the shaft. Then, a ring pusher is used to push the ligation rings past the cylindrical portion of the shaft and onto the ligator head while the ligator head and the shaft are axially aligned.
Abstract:
The invention relates to anvil shears for surgical purposes, particularly for laparoscopic operations. The shears have an anvil (10) and a blade (40) pivotably fitted thereto, which is closed against the anvil by means of an operating rod (30) displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the shears. For improving the cutting action, according to the invention the blade (40) is displaceably mounted on the anvil in its longitudinal direction (41) and is subject to the action of a force forcing the blade into the distal advanced position. The force exerted for closing the blade (40) with the operating rod (30) is opposed by the pretensioning force (54), so that on encountering a material to be cut a cutting movement is performed in the longitudinal direction (41) of the blade.
Abstract:
A video endoscope has in its distal end region an objective lens, a semi-conductor imager assigned to it and further electronic components provided for wiring it. In order to further reduce the required diameter of the endoscope shaft compared to the known designs, the electronic components are arranged on an integral ceramic substrate, on which the conductors for joining and for connecting these parts are directly placed.