A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
A61B 17/28 (2006.01) A61B 17/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2344393
The invention is a method and apparatus for performing beating heart surgery, in which a single articulating arm supports multiple suction pods. Once the suction pods are applied to the heart surface, tightening a cable fixes the arm in place. Then, the suction pods may be spread apart from each other to tighten the surface of the cardiac tissue lying between the suction pods. In one embodiment, fixation of the arm as well as the spreading apart of the suction pods may occur concurrently or almost concurrently through the tensioning of a single cable. Additional embodiments of the method, system and its components are shown.
La présente invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif permettant de réaliser des interventions chirurgicales sans interruption du coeur, avec utilisation d'un bras articulé servant de support à de multiples canules d'aspiration. Une fois que les canules-ventouses sont appliquées sur la surface du coeur, le serrage d'un câble suffit à bloquer le bras en position. Dès lors, il est possible d'écarter les canules-ventouses les unes des autres de façon à tendre la surface du tissu cardiaque entre les canules-ventouses. Selon une réalisation, le blocage du bras ainsi que l'écartement des canules-ventouses peuvent intervenir simultanément ou quasi-simultanément, par tension d'un unique câble. L'invention concerne également des modes de réalisations complémentaires du procédé, d'autres réalisations du système, et ses composants.
Boone Eric
Borst Cornelius
Goodman Jack
Grundeman Paul F.
Hall John D.
Medtronic Inc.
Smart & Biggar
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