A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
A61B 17/138 (2006.01) A61B 17/3209 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2698480
Methods and devices are provided for cutting and fastening tissue. In one embodiment, a surgical device can be used to at least partially transect a stomach by not cutting and/or not fastening a portion of tissue engaged in an end effector located at the device's distal end. A portion of the stomach can be engaged by the end effector, and the end effector can be actuated to cut and/or to apply one or more fasteners to tissue engaged in a distal portion of the end effector but not to cut and/or apply fasteners to tissue engaged in a proximal portion of the end effector. In a similar way, the surgical device can be used in any surgical procedure in which it is desired to cut and/or fasten a distal portion of tissue engaged by the end effector but not a proximal portion of tissue engaged by the end effector.
Gill Robert P.
Hess Christopher J.
Murray Michael A.
Powell Darrel M.
Voegele James W.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc.
Ogilvy Renault Llp/s.e.n.c.r.l.,s.r.l.
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