ULTRASONIC SURGICAL PROBE, ASSEMBLY, AND RELATED METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20180028207A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-01

    申请号:US15221271

    申请日:2016-07-27

    IPC分类号: A61B17/22 A61N7/00

    摘要: An ultrasonic surgical probe has an elongate shaft and a probe head that is enlarged to extend laterally or transversely in two opposed directions relative to the shaft The head is formed with a recess or cavity facing laterally in a third direction relative to the shaft and the axis. Where the head lies in a plane, owing to its lateral enlargement or extension, the recess or cavity faces in a direction perpendicular to that plane. The recess or cavity is defined in part by an inclined floor or base surface contiguous at a proximal end with the shaft. The recess or cavity is defined in part by a peripheral wall extending only partway around the recess or cavity, along a distal side and two lateral sides thereof. The cavity or recess is closed on a proximal side by the inclined surface and the shaft.

    METHOD FOR REDUCING BIOFILM FORMATION
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190167285A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-06

    申请号:US16269229

    申请日:2019-02-06

    IPC分类号: A61B17/22

    摘要: A two phase method for reducing the formation of biofilm includes an evacuation of ambient air from a region about the surgical or treatment site, to extract airborne or aerosolized bacteria ejected from the site by the treatment. The extracted bacteria are prevented from settling back onto the cleansed tissue surface, thus at least reducing colonial bacteriological growth and concomitantly exuded biofilm material. A second phase involves the attachment of one or more ultrasonic transducers to the patient over or near a surgical treatment site after the surgery is terminated. Each applied ultrasonic transducer is used to vibrate the patient's tissues at the treatment site to disrupt biofilm formation.

    ULTRASONIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PROBE AT ANGLE TO HANDPIECE

    公开(公告)号:US20230210549A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-06

    申请号:US17571101

    申请日:2022-01-07

    IPC分类号: A61B17/32

    摘要: An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a handpiece casing and an electromechanical transducer assembly disposed inside the handpiece casing, where the transducer assembly includes a front driver and the transducer assembly has a longitudinal axis. A probe is operatively connected to the front driver at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the transducer assembly. A sheath surrounds the probe and is connected at a proximal end to the handpiece casing. The sheath is attached to the casing by a twist quick release coupling. A diaphragm seal inside the proximal end of the sheath blocks liquid irrigant in a cylindrical space between the sheath and the probe from penetrating proximally of a port feeding irrigant to the space. The front driver is geometrically configured to enable an angled connection of probe to handpiece proximate a nodal plane.

    ULTRASONIC MEDICAL PROBE WITH FAILSAFE FOR STERILITY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD
    4.
    发明申请
    ULTRASONIC MEDICAL PROBE WITH FAILSAFE FOR STERILITY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD 审中-公开
    超声波医疗探针具有无菌性和相关方法

    公开(公告)号:US20170007852A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-12

    申请号:US14795667

    申请日:2015-07-09

    IPC分类号: A61N7/00 A61L2/07

    摘要: An ultrasonic medical probe has a horn or shaft, a shank at a proximal end of the shaft, a probe head at a distal end of the horn or shaft, opposite the shank, and at least one polymeric component fixed to at least one of the horn or shaft, the shank, and the probe head. The shank is provided at a proximal end opposite the horn or shaft with an externally threaded connector for attaching the probe to a source of ultrasonic vibratory energy. The polymeric component is of a composition that transmits and is essentially impervious to ultrasonic vibratory energy but that degrades or decomposes upon exposure to a source of extreme energy (other than ultrasonic vibratory energy), rendering the probe inoperative for use.

    摘要翻译: 超声波医疗探针具有喇叭或轴,在轴的近端处的柄,位于喇叭或轴的远端的探针头,与柄相对,以及固定到至少一个 喇叭或轴,柄和探头。 柄部设置在与喇叭或轴相对的近端,具有用于将探针附接到超声波振动能源的外螺纹连接器。 聚合物组分是透射并且基本上不渗透超声波振动能的组合物,但是当暴露于极端能量(超声波振动能量以外)时会降解或分解,使得探针不能使用。