Apparatus for converting a clamp into an electrophysiology device

• US 6,932,816 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2002
• Issued: 08/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Phan, Huy D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Roane, Aaron
• Application Number:
  US10/079,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20030158547A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,281 Days
• Field of Search: 606 22- 24, 606/41, 606/45, 606/47, 606 49- 52, 606/205
• US Class Current: 606/49
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/14 Probes or electrodes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00296 mounted on an endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00023 closed, i.e. without wound contact by the fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00065 porous
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00125 with nanostructure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1472 for use with liquid electrolyte, e.g. virtual electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1495 Electrodes being detachable from a support structure

Abstract

An apparatus for use with a clamp including a base member configured to be secured to the clamp and at least one energy transmission device carried by the base member. An apparatus for use with a clamp and a probe that carries at least one energy transmission device including a base member configured to be secured to the clamp and an engagement device associated with the base member and configured to engage the probe. A clamp including first and second clamp members, at least one of which is malleable, and a movement apparatus that moves at least one of the first and second clamp members relative to the other. A surgical system including a clamp with first and second clamp members and a device that removably mounts at least one electrode on at least one of the first and second clamp members.

Claims

1. An apparatus for use with a clamp including first and second clamp members, the apparatus comprising:

a base member configured to be removably secured to at least one of the first and second clamp members;

at least one energy transmission device carried by the base member; and

a tissue cooling apparatus carried by the base member and covering at least a portion of the at least one energy transmission device.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one energy transmission device comprises an electrode.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one energy transmission device comprises a plurality of longitudinally spaced energy transmission devices.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base member comprises a substantially electrically insulating base member.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base member comprises a resilient base member.

6. An apparatus for use with a clamp including first and second clamp members, the apparatus comprising:

at least one energy transmission device;

support means for removably securing the at least one energy transmission device to at least one of the first and second clamp members; and

a tissue cooling apparatus carried by the support means and covering at least a portion of the at least one energy transmission device.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the at least one energy transmission device comprises an electrode.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the least one energy transmission device comprises a plurality of longitudinally spaced energy transmission devices.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the base member comprises a substantially electrically insulating base member.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the base member comprises a resilient base member.