Title:
SURGICAL STAPLER CARTRIDGE LOADING AND UNLOADING
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2019/011808
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
An exemplary surgical method includes possessing a loader that holds a curved-tip cartridge, and a surgical stapler that includes an anvil and channel at a distal end thereof; causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move toward the other; as a result of the causing, engaging the loader and the curved-tip cartridge with the channel; and causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move away from the other, such that the curved-tip cartridge remains engaged with the channel. That method further may include actuating the surgical stapler; grasping the unloader; sliding the unloader toward the channel; disengaging the curved-tip cartridge from the channel with the unloader; and withdrawing the unloader away from said channel, wherein the withdrawing causes the curved-tip cartridge to disengage from the channel.
Inventors:
MATTHIAS BENJAMIN J (US)
HUDELSON KEVIN J (US)
TERZULLI NICHOLAS J (US)
PALERMO THOMAS J (US)
NIKOLCHEV JULIAN N (US)
HUDELSON KEVIN J (US)
TERZULLI NICHOLAS J (US)
PALERMO THOMAS J (US)
NIKOLCHEV JULIAN N (US)
Application Number:
PCT/EP2018/068380
Publication Date:
March 07, 2019
Filing Date:
July 06, 2018
Export Citation:
Assignee:
AESCULAP AG (DE)
International Classes:
A61B17/072
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2013036893A1 | 2013-03-14 |
Foreign References:
| US20130256374A1 | 2013-10-03 | |||
| US20170105751A1 | 2017-04-20 | |||
| US8070036B1 | 2011-12-06 | |||
| US20130175316A1 | 2013-07-11 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
WINTER BRANDL FÜRNISS HÜBNER RÖSS KAISER POLTE - PARTNERSCHAFT MBB (DE)
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