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A manipulator apparatus comprises a surgical treatment section to be inserted into a subject body, a supporting section which turnably supports the surgical treatment section around a first axis and a second axis, an arm section having the supporting section connected to a distal end side thereof, a manipulating section provided at a proximal end side of the arm section, a manipulating lever provided at the manipulating section, the manipulating lever being turnably supported around a third axis provided at the proximal end side of the arm section, and a manipulating device provided at the manipulating lever, the manipulating device causing the surgical treatment section to turn around the first axis and the second axis.

A robotic catheter rotatable device cartridge may include a housing member attachable to a drive mechanism for rotating the cartridge and a catheter attached to the cartridge along an axial direction of the catheter. A slider block may be generally slidable relative to the housing and engaged with one or more steering wires for controlling movement of the catheter in a transverse direction relative to the axial direction. The catheter may include the steering wire(s) engaged therewith and movable in the transverse direction when the slider block is linearly driven in a predetermined direction.

Embodiments of a smart surgical drape are disclosed. The surgical drape includes an insulating material and one or more sensors mounted with the insulating material, the one or more sensors detecting proximity between the surgical drape and a device. Some embodiments of the smart surgical drape can be utilized on surgical robots or other devices in the surgical area to detect potential collisions.

A glenoid component for securement to a glenoid surface of a scapula so as to provide a bearing surface for a head portion of a humerus includes a body portion having a first surface configured to contact the glenoid surface of the scapula and a second surface configured to receive the head portion of the humerus. The glenoid component also includes an anchor peg extending from the first surface of the body portion for penetrating the glenoid surface of the scapula so as to secure the body portion to the glenoid surface of the scapula. The anchor peg has a first end portion and a second end portion with the first end portion of the anchor peg being secured to the first surface of the body portion, and the second end portion of the anchor peg having a number of fins secured thereto. The glenoid component also includes a first stabilizing peg extending from the first surface of the body portion for penetrating the glenoid surface of the scapula so as to prevent movement of the body portion relative to the glenoid surface of the scapula. A method of securing a glenoid component to a glenoid surface of a scapula so as to provide a bearing surface for a head portion of a humerus is also disclosed.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for delivering energy substantially distal to an electrosurgical device. Embodiments of a device of the present invention may comprise an elongate member having one or more electrically insulated portions and a distal face comprising one or more electrically exposed conductive portions for delivering energy substantially distal to the elongate member. At least one of the one or more electrically insulated portions may extend from a proximal region of the elongate member to a distal end of the elongate member. In addition, a method is provided for creating a lesion at a target site within a body of a human or animal using an electrosurgical device. The method may comprise the steps of: inserting the electrosurgical device into the body such that the electrosurgical device is generally upstanding relative to the target site; and delivering energy from an energy source through a distal face of the electrosurgical device such that the energy is directed substantially distal to the distal face towards the target site.

An apparatus for protecting a nontarget body tissue of a patient during electrocautery surgery, an electrocautery probe being adapted to provide an electrical field to electrocauterize a target body tissue of the patient, includes a stent. The stent is adapted to detect the electrical field and to produce a field proximity signal in response to the detected electrical field. An electrical source provides electrical power to the probe. An electrical controller is adapted to receive the field proximity signal and to regulate electrical power to the probe in response to the field proximity signal. A method for protecting a nontarget body tissue of the patient during electrocautery surgery is also described.

A method and device to modify tissue in a manner such that it will take on a permanent new shape. Subdermal tissue is heated to approx 60° C. at which point it becomes pliable and moldable and will take on a permanent new shape if allowed to cool and heal in a new position.

Apparatuses are provided to hold surgical tools during surgery. Such apparatuses may be fixed to a patient's body and include a base member, tool engagement member and one or more intermediary members. Each member may be attached to another by a knob and mating engagement section. Fixation between members may be provided individually for each attachment or may be provided so as to fix more than one attachment at a time.

A detoxification method includes immersing at least a portion of a patient's body within a reservoir filled with water; generating ions within the water; and simultaneously with the generating ions, irradiating a predetermined area of the therapy subject with light generated by a cold laser. The generated light may be irradiated to the patient as either a continuous beam or a pulsed beam. The ions generated within the water may be positive, negative, or combinations thereof. Further, the light may be irradiated as long as the ions are being generated.

Apparatus for the fast angular orientation of a surgical instrument with respect to an implantation seat of a prosthesis in a patient's bone, of the type comprising a moving sensor, which may be associated with the surgical instrument, and a fixes sensor, which may be integrally fastened to the bone during a surgical operation, the moving sensor and the fixed sensor being provided with a position detection device and with a device for signaling of the detected position to a central memory and processing unit. The central memory and processing unit comprises calibration device which detect the position of the moving sensor when it is associated with a line passing through two known points of the bone and, simultaneously, they detect the position of the fixed sensor when it is integrally fastened to the bone, and they record such position as initial work position.

There is provided an apparatus (10) and method for maintaining manuary access to a sufflated body cavity of a patient through a fenestration formed in the patient's body tissue during a minimally invasive surgical procedure. The apparatus (10) generally comprises a seal section (100) and a sheath section (200) coupled thereto. The seal section (100) includes an endless loop portion (110) that defines an opening (120). The sheath section (200) includes a mouth portion (210), a glove portion (230), and a pliable intermediate portion (220) extending therebetween. The intermediate portion (220) maintains in reconfigurable manner a substantially gas impermeable barrier between the mouth and glove portions (210, 230) when the glove portion (230) is passed through the opening (120) into the body cavity responsive to manuary actuation. The passage of the glove portion (230) through the opening (120) biases at least a part of the intermediate portion (220) to engage the patient's body tissue immediately bounding the fenestration, whereby the sufflation of the body cavity is substantially preserved during the minimally invasive surgical procedure.

A method and apparatus for arthroscopic biceps tenodesis wherein the method involves arthroscopically determining that biceps tenodesis is desirable; arthroscopically separating the long head of the biceps tendon from bone attachment; creating and placing a wedge at the proximal end of the long head of the biceps tendon; and allowing the tendon to slide through the glenohumeral joint and the wedge structure to be wedged in the bicipital groove and wherein the apparatus includes a clamshell type, button wedge having a football shaped body with top and bottom portions hinged at one end and with locking structure at an opposite end to lock the top and bottom portions together, such that staggered ribs on the top portion and bottom portion grip top and bottom surfaces of the long head of the tendon when the top and bottom portions of the button wedge are clamped together.

An apparatus and method for performing surgery using plasma is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a radiofrequency signal generator, a conditioning network coupled to the radiofrequency signal generator, and a catheter coupled to the conditioning network, the catheter including at least one electrode, such that the conditioning network conditions radiofrequency energy produced by the radiofrequency signal generator to create plasma at the at least one electrode of the catheter.

The invention discloses a surgical operation-assisting electrical locking bracket, which comprises a handle, a wrist joint, a fore arm, an elbow joint, an upper arm, a shoulder joint, a waist joint and a base rod, wherein one end of the handle is connected with an operation-assisting tool; the other end of the handle is connected with the wrist joint connected with one end of the fore arm; the other end of the fore arm is connected with the elbow joint connected with one end of the upper arm; the other end of the upper arm is connected with the shoulder joint connected with the waist joint; the joint axes of the shoulder joint and the waist joint are perpendicular to each other; and the waist joint is connected with the base rod through a machine frame arranged on the waist joint. The bracket has four joints, six degrees of freedom, position and attitude decoupling and large tail-end working space and can meet needs of surgical departments such as thoracoabdominal department. In addition, the bracket has the advantages that: the operation is very convenient; the structure is simple; the cost is low; and a weight self-balancing mechanism can perform adjustment according to the load at a tail end.

Provided is a tool tip position detecting device (53) for a remote controlled actuator (5) having an elongated spindle guide (3), a tool (1) fitted to a tip thereof and a main body housing (4) having a base end of the spindle guide (3) connected thereto. The device (53) includes an external force free position detector (54) for detecting the tip position of the tool (1) from a detection value thereof, a strain detector (60) for detecting a strain of the spindle guide (3), and a corrector (55) for correcting the tip position of the tool (1), which has been detected by the external force free position detector (54), with the use of a detected strain value of the strain detector (60).

A method and apparatus for projecting an image of a patient to intersect a display screen which is nonperpendicular to an adjacent portion of an optical path and adjacent a sterile operative field. A video projector system and accompanying optics impart at least one of a tilted focal plane or depth of focus to the projected image. The optical path of the projected image is located adjacent the surgical field. An initially sterile display screen is located in the optical path adjacent the sterile field so that a normal to the screen is noncoincident with the optical path and the projected image on the screen is of constant focus across the screen. The initially sterile display screen may be degradable upon cleaning and resterilization so that a new screen must be used with each procedure, thus insuring the optical quality and sterility of the screen. The display screen may be supported adjacent the surgical field by an articulated rod assembly. The rod assembly may have an upper rod shaped like a "dog leg" for providing easy access by the surgical team for rotating and moving the system up and down. A lower rod of the rod assembly may be connected to the upper rod with a universal joint for adjusting screen location and quickly moving the display screen out of the surgical field.

The invention is applicable to the technical field of medical image processing and application, and provides a marker point registration method and device and a surgical navigation system. The method comprises that a space positioning error of each physical space marker point is calculated according to physical coordinate values of physical space marker points obtained many times and the average value of the physical coordinate values; a weight matrix of the physical space marker point is calculated according to the space positioning error; according to the average value of the physical coordinate values of the physical space marker points, and the average value of image coordinate values of the image space marker points, by combining the weight matrix, under the premise that the minimum marker point registration error FRE is ensured, a translation vector t and a rotation matrix R are solved by an iterative method. According to the utility model, the anisotropic nature of the space positioning error of the optical positioning system can be fully considered, so that the navigation accuracy of the entire surgical navigation is improved finally.

Intraoral phototherapy devices receive light from an associated light source and propagate the light into an oral cavity of a patient. The device comprises a light guide that receives light from an external light source. The light guide comprises a main body portion made of an optically transparent soft flexible biocompatible polymeric material sized and shaped to conform to contours of the oral cavity when inserted therein to direct the light to targeted regions of the oral cavity. The main body portion comprises a pair of spaced apart side wings sized and shaped to be received between a patient's teeth and cheeks on opposite sates of the oral cavity and a center flap intermediate the side wings hr transmitting and directing the light to targeted regions of the oral cavity. A controller delivers light to the light guide in a controlled manner.

A cleaning liquid is contained in a cleaning tank (3), and an object (2) to be cleaned is immersed in the cleaning liquid. A pressure reducing means (5) reduces the pressure in the cleaning tank (3) by sucking gas in the cleaning tank (3) and discharging the gas to the outside. A heating means (7) heats the cleaning liquid within the cleaning tank (3). A gas supply means (6) introduces gas into the cleaning liquid within the cleaning tank (3) from a position below the object (2) to be cleaned. After the cleaning liquid is heated to a preset temperature by the heating means (7), the pressure within the cleaning tank (3) is reduced by the pressure reducing means (5) to boil the cleaning liquid, and the gas is introduced into the cleaning liquid by the gas supply means (6) during the boiling. By this, the cleaning liquid is fiercely boiled to increase the effect of cleaning of the object (2) to be cleaned.

A process for performing lumbar laminectomy is characterized by leaving the muscles intact along the base of spinous process and posterior faces of detached portions of lamina, facet joints, and transverse processes of at least one of adjacent superior and inferior vertebrae to preserve the blood flow to the detached portions and, thus, to create a living peace of bone used as fusion material between the bases of the transverse processes of the superior and inferior vertebrae.

A system and method of use thereof are provided for dynamically generating an environmental map for use in robotic assisted surgery. The generated environmental map is used to plan a recovery tool path that an end-effector tool can safely and efficiently follow to re-position the tool back to a cutting position following the displacement of the tool from the cutting position. Additionally, the environmental map is used to update a virtual representation of a bone to provide a user with visual feedback as to the progression of the end-effector tool as the tool removes material from the bone during a surgical procedure.

A mobile anesthesia system has a patient support configured for use with a robotic patient positioning system. There is a sliding rail system disposed on the patient support and an anesthesia machine coupled to the slide rail system. Through use of the rail system(s) on the patient support a anesthesia machine may move relative to a patient support from a stored configuration clear of the patient to a treatment configuration above the patient. A method of providing anesthesia to a patient positioned to receive a robotic assisted radiation therapy is also described. The method proceeds by positioning a patient on a robotic couch in a location remote to a radiation therapy treatment room used to perform the robotic assisted radiation therapy. Next, anesthesia is administered to the patient from an anesthesia machine attached to the robotic couch while both the patient and the robotic couch are in the location remote to the radiation therapy treatment room. Thereafter, the robotic couch is placed under the control of a patient positioning system in the radiation therapy treatment room. The patient and the robotic couch are then maneuvered into a treatment position while administering anesthesia to the patient from the anesthesia machine.

The invention discloses an improved minimally-invasive cranial drill for clinical operation in the neurosurgery department. The improved minimally-invasive cranial drill for clinical operation in theneurosurgery department comprises a circular base; an open-source single chip microcomputer is arranged outside the circular base; two front and rear relative circular arc guide rails are arranged onthe upper end of the circular base; both the upper ends of the circular arc guide rails are each provided with a sliding block; the upper ends of the sliding blocks are respectively connected to the front and rear ends of the lower end face of a first installation plate; and an infrared distancer is arranged on the upper end face of the first installation plate. The improved minimally-invasive cranial drill for clinical operation in the neurosurgery department in the invention is simple in structure and convenient to use; the minimally-invasive cranial drill is fixed on the head of a patient through the circular base; therefore, inconvenience due to the fact that the minimally-invasive cranial drill needs to be hold by a doctor can be avoided; the burden on the doctor due to hand holding of the minimally-invasive cranial drill can be effectively reduced; normal operation of a surgical process is conveniently carried out; simultaneously, the drilling operation depth of the minimally-invasive cranial drill can be controlled; and the possible harm to the patient due to the fact that the minimally-invasive cranial drill is held by the doctor in operation can be effectively avoided.

The embodiment of the invention provides a surgery robot system. The system comprises an image collecting device for collecting surgery environment information to obtain color image information, a positioning device for obtaining pose information of the image collecting device, and a recognizing device which is in communication connection with the image collecting device and the positioning deviceand is used for obtaining feature information according to the color image information, wherein the pose information is used for representing the position and pose of the image collecting device inside a patient body, the recognizing device is further used for adopting the feature information and/or the pose information as input on the basis of a neural network model and outputting labelled information. According to the surgery robot system, on the basis of the neural network model, the content in the view of the image collecting device and the relative position where the current image collecting device is located can be rapidly output in real time, and then a medical worker can be helped to accurately perform operation and observation when surgery is performed on a patient.

The invention relates to a surgical smoke filter, and belongs to the field of medical equipment. The surgical smoke filter comprises a closed shell with an inlet and an outlet, wherein the inlet and the outlet are formed in two parallel opposite faces of the closed shell, the closed shell comprises a harmful gas filtering cavity and a carbon dioxide absorbing cavity in sequence from the inlet to the outlet, the outlet of the closed shell is covered with a first multi-hole plate, and the inlet and the outlet of the closed shell extend outward from the shell to form an air inlet tube and an air outlet tube respectively. The surgical smoke filter is compact in structure, convenient to use, easy to operate, economical, efficient and capable of effectively clearing away harmful particles and carbon dioxide in smoke generated in laparoscopic surgery at the same time, the harmful particles and the carbon dioxide in smoke are easy to recycle and destroy, and the surgical smoke filter meets the administrative regulation for disposable sterile medical apparatuses.