Apparatus and System for Performing Surgery

• US 20100261976A1
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Covidien LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Horton, Kenneth W.
• Application Number:
  US12/754,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20100261976A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/249
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/06 with illuminating arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00234 for minimally invasive surgery A61B17/0218, A61B17/0469, A61B17/12013, A61B17/1285, A61B17/29, A61B17/320016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/34 Trocars; Puncturing needles pointed biopsy instruments A61B10/0233; devices for piercing the ear-lobes A44C7/001; seals or hemostasis valves A61M39/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00278 Transorgan operations, e.g. transgastric
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00283 with a device releasably connected to an inner wall of the abdomen during surgery, e.g. an illumination source
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/30 Devices for illuminating a surgical field, the devices having an interrelation with other surgical devices or with a surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/35 Supports therefor

Abstract

An illumination system configured to light an anatomical location of a patient is provided. The illumination system includes an interior illumination device positionable and movable within a body cavity of a patient. The interior illumination device is configured to provide a light having a wavelength that is visible to a clinician. The illumination system includes an exterior illumination device operatively coupled to the interior illumination device and positionable and movable about an exterior of a patient. The exterior illumination device is configured to provide a light having a wavelength that is visible to a clinician.

Claims

1. An illumination system configured to light an anatomical location of a patient comprising:

an interior illumination device positionable and movable within a body cavity of a patient, the interior illumination device configured to provide a light having a wavelength that is visible to a clinician; and

an exterior illumination device operatively coupled to the interior illumination device and positionable and movable about an exterior of a patient, the exterior illumination device configured to provide a light having a wavelength that is visible to a clinician.

2. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the interior and exterior illumination devices are operatively coupled to each other via a magnet operatively associated with one of the interior and exterior illumination devices.

3. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the interior and exterior illumination devices provide light having the same wavelength.

4. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the interior and exterior illumination devices provide light having a different wavelength.

5. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the interior illumination device is introduced within a cavity of a patient via a method selected from the group consisting of transluminal, endoluminal and laparoscopic surgical procedures.

6. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the interior illumination device is positionable within a peritoneal cavity of a patient.

7. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein each of the interior and exterior illumination devices are configured to change at least one of color or intensity of light.

8. An illumination according to claim 1, wherein each of the interior and exterior illumination devices comprises a plurality of illumination devices, wherein the plurality of interior and exterior illumination devices are operatively coupled to each other.

9. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein each of the interior and exterior illumination devices are operatively coupled to a percutaneous instrument positionable on a patient and configured to penetrate an outer wall of an abdomen of a patient.

10. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein the percutaneous device is a percutaneous needle.

11. An illumination system according to claim 1, wherein each of the interior an exterior illumination devices are formed from lubricious material.

12. An illumination apparatus configured to light an anatomical location of a patient comprising:

a proximal end configured for manipulation by a clinician;

an elongate tubular portion extending distally from the proximal;

an exterior illumination device fixedly positionable on an outer abdominal wall of a patient and disposed at the proximal end of the illumination apparatus, the exterior illumination device configured to provide a light having a wavelength that is visible to a clinician; and

an interior illumination device disposed at a distal end of the illumination apparatus and operatively coupled to the exterior illumination device, the interior illumination device configured to provide a light having a wavelength that is visible to a clinician.