50 results about "Surgical staple" patented technology

Medical device bending devices and methods of use are disclosed herein. An embodiment includes a body, a handle in rotatable relationship with the body, and a head that is coupled with the handle in such a way that when the handle is rotated the head is drawn at least partially into the body and towards the handle. A terminal end of the body that is opposite of the handle and the head cooperate as a vise that bends opposing arms of a surgical staple from an inwardly angled configuration to a parallel configuration (or at angles therebetween) when a crown of the surgical staple is clamped in the vise.

The technology relates to a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument may include a shaft assembly comprising a firing rod; a motor coupled to the firing rod and configured to drive the firing rod distally and retract the firing rod proximally; a tool assembly including an end effector; a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the surgical instrument to perform operations. The operations may include detecting a coupling of the tool assembly to the shaft assembly; based on detecting the coupling of the tool assembly to the shaft assembly, activating the motor to retract the firing rod proximally; monitoring a motor characteristic of the motor during retraction of the firing rod; and based on the monitored motor characteristic crossing a motor-characteristic threshold within a threshold distance, indicating a proper connection of the tool assembly to the shaft assembly.

A surgical stapler that can deliver staples or anchors into both tendon and bone. The staples or anchors releasably engage to the end of a staple rod. The stapler rod includes a butterfly clip on its proximal end, the butterfly clip having two wings or panels and a striking surface between the wings. The stapler is used to secure a biological construct to tendon or bone during arthroscopic surgery. The device includes a stapler handle with an insertable staple rod. The stapler handle drives the staple rod to advance a staple into the bone or tendon.

A method of adjusting a staple parameter of a surgical stapling instrument is disclosed. The method includes determining, by a control circuit of the surgical stapling instrument, a first stroke length for a first staple driver of the surgical stapling instrument to drive a first row of staples of a circular stapling head assembly of the surgical stapling instrument; detecting, by the control circuit, a malformed staple in the first row of staples; adjusting, by the control circuit, the staple parameter, based on the detection of the malformed staple; and determining, by the control circuit, a second stroke length for a second staple driver of the surgical stapling instrument to drive a second row of staples of the circular stapling head assembly.

A surgical instrument for applying surgical staples to tissue comprises an end effector with a first and a second jaw that are movable between an open and a closed position. The instrument includes a drive element configured to move distally from the shaft into the end effector to deliver one or more staples to the first and second jaws. The instrument further includes at least one actuating rod extending through the shaft laterally to the drive element relative to the longitudinal axis and configured to move the jaws between the open and closed positions. Positioning the jaw actuator laterally to the drive element creates space for the drive element to deliver multiple staples to the jaws without interfering with the opening and closing of the jaws.

The invention discloses a staple cartridge device (1). In an initial state, a blade (1033) of a cutting knife (103) is arranged in a knife groove (1024); when the cutting knife propeller (106) moves forwards, the rack (1062) is meshed with the gear (1032) to drive the cutting knife (103) to rotate, so that the blade (1033) is exposed; and when the cutter (103) is reset backwards, the cutter (103) is driven to rotate, so that the blade (1033) is retracted into the cutter groove (1024). According to the scheme, the nail bin device can carry the cutting knife, the cutting knife is hidden in the knife groove in the initial state, the cutting knife is opened through the structure transmission blade in the working process, and after tissue is cut, the cutting knife is hidden in the knife groove through the structure transmission blade again. Compared with an existing endoscope anastomat on the market, the endoscope anastomat has obvious technical advantages and use hand feeling, and in the operation process, when tissue is cut and sutured for multiple times, the nail bin with the cutting knife is replaced, and the performance is more stable.

A surgical stapling assembly is disclosed. The surgical stapling assembly may include a first jaw, a second jaw, an articulation joint, a closure drive with a first flexible rotation drive extending through the articulation joint, and a firing drive with a second flexible rotation drive extending through the articulation joint and rotatable independently from the first flexible rotation drive. The surgical stapling assembly may further include a 3D printed component. The surgical stapling assembly may be configured to form different staple shapes, such as non-planar and planar staples, may include an eccentrically driven firing assembly, and / or may include a floatable component. The surgical stapling assembly may include a staple cartridge including a longitudinal support beam.

The article of this design is a platform that constitutes a surgical buttress applicator for attaching a surgical buttress sheet to a surgical staple fastener.

A circular stapler for cutting and applying one or more surgical staples to tissue is disclosed. The circular stapler includes various forms of detection systems that are configured to provide feedback to the surgeon that proper tissue compression has been achieved between an anvil of the circular stapler and a stapling head of the circular stapler before firing of the circular stapler. A surgical system includes a console and a controller communicatively coupled to the circular stapler which aids in processing and displaying data to provide feedback to the surgeon that proper tissue compression has been achieved between the anvil and the stapling head before firing of the circular stapler.

The article of this design is a housing that constitutes a surgical buttress applicator for attaching a surgical buttress sheet to a surgical staple fastener.

A surgical stapling device includes a cartridge assembly for accommodating tissues of different thicknesses. The cartridge assembly includes a channel member and a staple cartridge that is received in the channel member for movement between positions to change a size of a tissue gap defined between the staple cartridge and an anvil of the stapling device. The cartridge assembly also includes features formed on pushers or a cartridge body of the staple cartridge of the cartridge assembly to improve staple formation when stapling thin tissue.

A surgical stapling instrument includes an anvil assembly, a reload assembly, an adapter assembly, a processor, and a memory. When clamped to a target force, instructions cause the surgical stapling instrument to advance a pusher toward the anvil assembly from a first position to a second position, determine whether the pusher stopped advancing toward the anvil assembly before the second position, measure a staple compression force of staples ejected by the pusher from an annular cartridge of staples in response to the pusher having stopped advancing toward the anvil assembly, and determine whether the staple compression force is outside of a predetermined range.

A surgical stapling instrument includes an anvil assembly, a reload assembly, an adapter assembly, a processor, and a memory. When clamping to a target pressure, the instructions cause the surgical stapling instrument to advance the anvil assembly in relation to a staple cartridge supported on the reload assembly to a first position to define a first tissue gap within a predetermined acceptable range of tissue gaps, measure a first force of tissue compression of tissue clamped within the first tissue gap with the anvil assembly in the first position, and enter a firing mode of the surgical stapling instrument if the first force of tissue compression is within a predetermined acceptable range of tissue compression.

A surgical stapling assembly is disclosed. The surgical stapling assembly may include a first jaw, a second jaw, an articulation joint, a closure drive with a first flexible rotation drive extending through the articulation joint, and a firing drive with a second flexible rotation drive extending through the articulation joint and rotatable independently from the first flexible rotation drive. The surgical stapling assembly may further include a 3D printed component. The surgical stapling assembly may be configured to form different staple shapes, such as non-planar and planar staples, may include an eccentrically driven firing assembly, and / or may include a floatable component. The surgical stapling assembly may include a staple cartridge including a longitudinal support beam.

Provided in the present application are a staple replacement apparatus, a tissue suturing system, and a staple replacement method therefor. The staple replacement apparatus comprises: an elastic member and two clamping members. The two clamping members are rotatably connected, and the clamping members are located on two sides of a rotation axis and are respectively a clamping end and a holding end. The clamping end is provided with an accommodating groove, a limiting groove, and a threading groove. The limiting groove is located at an end portion of the clamping end and is in communication with the accommodating groove. The elastic member is arranged between the two clamping members. Under the action of the elastic member, the clamping ends of the two clamping members are attached to each other. The accommodating grooves of the two clamping ends are in communication with each other to form an accommodating cavity, the limiting grooves of the two clamping ends are in communication with each other to form a limiting cavity, and the threading grooves of the two clamping ends are in communication with each other to form a threading cavity. When a spring section of a surgical staple assembly is placed in the accommodating cavity, a suture fixing portion of the surgical staple assembly is limited in the limiting cavity, and the threading cavity is in communication with a suture fixing hole of the suture fixing portion. Under the action of an external force applied to the holding end, the clamping ends of the two clamping members are separated to release the surgical staple assembly.

An automated surgical staple inspection system automatically generates surgical staple inspection data characterizing a set of staples fired into a test skin by stapling device in a staple test. An inspection processing device obtains one or more images of the set of staples and applies an object detection model to infer locations of the staples and respective classes of the staples indicating whether the staples are properly formed or have one or more identified defects. Based on the inferred locations, staples may be mapped to respective positions in an expected staple pattern to generate a staple map. A keypoint detection model furthermore operates to automatically identify a set of keypoints in each staple from which staple height may be determined. The inspection processing device may generate one or more digital reports based on the inspection data, which may be outputted to a user interface of a user device.

The article of this design is a housing that constitutes a surgical buttress applicator for attaching a surgical buttress sheet to a surgical staple fastener.

A surgical instrument for applying surgical staples to tissue comprises an end effector with a first and a second jaw that are movable between an open and a closed position. The instrument includes a staple magazine within the shaft, containing a first proximal staple and a second distal staple spaced apart along the longitudinal axis. A drive element is configured for movement through the shaft to the end effector and includes a first and a second engagement element for distally advancing the proximal and distal staples through the shaft. This allows the drive element to automatically advance the proximal staple(s) distally in the staple magazine while the distal staple is delivered to the jaws, increasing the speed and efficiency of applying multiple staples at the target site and reducing interruption to the surgeon's workflow.

Surgical instruments, such as clamping and cutting instruments, are provided. In one aspect, a surgical stapling instrument comprises first and second jaws and a drive member configured to move in a distal direction through at least one of the jaws. The instrument further includes a locking member movable between a first position permitting distal translation of the drive member, and a second position impeding distal translation of the drive member, and a switch movable from a proximal position to a distal position. When the switch is in the proximal position, it releasably maintains the locking member in the first position, and when the switch is in the distal position, it allows the locking member to move to the second position. This inhibits or prevents actuation of a knife when there is a spent or previously fired cartridge loaded in the instrument.

A surgical stapler, the end effector includes a fastener-cartridge assembly and an anvil; the closing mechanism drives the end effector to be closed; the surgical fastener pushing assembly pushes the surgical fastener out of the fastener-cartridge assembly; in a closing stage, the first driver mechanism is in detachable connection with the closing mechanism to drive the closing mechanism to close the end effector; in a surgical fastener pushing stage after the closing stage, the first driver mechanism is separated from the closing mechanism and drives the surgical fastener pushing assembly to push the surgical fastener out of the fastener-cartridge assembly to suture the target tissue; the articulation mechanism and the rear articulation driver assembly drive the end effector to pivot; the detachable portion is in detachable connection with the main body portion to enable the front articulation driver assembly to be in detachable connection with the rear articulation driver assembly.

A circular stapler for cutting and applying one or more surgical staples to tissue is disclosed. The circular stapler includes various forms of feedback systems that are configured to provide feedback to the surgeon that an anvil of the circular stapler is properly attached to a trocar of the circular stapler before closing and firing of the circular stapler. The various forms of feedback systems can include one or more of hard stops, friction detection, torque detection, acceleration detection, signal on / off detection, and audible detection, among other options for detecting that the anvil is properly attached to the trocar of the circular stapler before closing and firing of the circular stapler.

A surgical staple cartridge includes installation poka-yoke features. The surgical staple cartridge is configured to be installed between a pair of closure plates of a surgical instrument. The closure plates are configured to push the surgical staple cartridge towards a staple anvil portion of the surgical instrument to clamp tissue between the surgical staple cartridge and the staple anvil portion. The surgical staple cartridge includes two opposite side walls extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to an installation direction of the surgical staple cartridge. A protrusion and / or a slot are provided on an outer surface of at least one of the side walls. The protrusion as well as the slot are configured to cooperate with corresponding features on the closure plates, so as to prevent an inappropriate installation of the surgical staple cartridge.

The present disclosure provides a surgical stapling instrument and an attachment and detachment method thereof. The surgical stapling instrument includes a fixed anvil assembly; a cartridge assembly rotatably hinged to the anvil assembly; an end component detachably mounted on the anvil assembly. The attachment and detachment method of the surgical stapling instrument includes: causing the distal portion to press the elastic member to deform, and to be partially inserted into the lumen; causing the distal portion to be fully inserted into the lumen and to engage with the restored elastic member; causing the distal portion to press the elastic member to deform, and to be partially withdrawn from the lumen; causing the distal portion to be fully withdrawn from the lumen and to disengage from the restored elastic member. The attachment and detachment of the end component of the surgical stapling instrument are relatively simple.

Present disclosure discloses a device (100) for removing surgical staples having curved arms (200c) connected by bridge member (200a). The device includes a pair of elongated members (101) being defined with a proximal end and a distal end and pivotally connectable through a knuckle (101c). Each elongated member includes a gripping portion (101a) engageable to pivotally displace pair of elongated members (101) about the knuckle (101c). An end effector (101b) is defined about distal end and extending away from the knuckle and adapted to engage with surgical staple. Displacement of the pair of elongated members is configured to operate the end effector of at least one of the pair of elongated members to deform and unloop the surgical staple at a first end (201) of surgical staple, and the end effector of remaining of pair of elongated members is configured to hold a second end (202) of the surgical staple. Figs. 4a and 4b are the representative figures.

The disclosed technology includes a method of attaching an adjunct to a surgical staple cartridge using a biocompatible adhesive. The method may include depositing a biocompatible adhesive onto a top surface of the surgical staple cartridge, and attaching an adjunct to the biocompatible adhesive. The biocompatible adhesive may have a component configured to reduce the sensitivity of the biocompatible adhesive to moisture and temperature.

Provided are a tissue suturing system and an operation method therefor. The tissue suturing system comprises a surgical staple apparatus (100) and a surgical staple assembly (300). The surgical staple apparatus (100) comprises: a handle (1), a handle cap (7), an elastic tube (2), a pull cable (4), and a sliding ring (5). The handle cap (7) is rotatably arranged on the handle (1). One end of the elastic tube (2) is connected to the handle cap (7). The surgical staple assembly (300) is located at one end of the elastic tube (2) distal to the handle (1). The pull cable (4) is slidably arranged in the elastic tube (2) in a penetrating manner. One end of the pull cable (4) is detachably connected to the surgical staple assembly (300). The sliding ring (5) is slidably arranged on the handle (1). The sliding ring (5) is connected to the other end of the pull cable (4). The sliding ring (5) moves along the handle (1), and the surgical staple assembly (300) can be driven by means of the pull cable (4) to move along an extension direction of the elastic tube (2); the handle (1) rotates around the handle cap (7), and the surgical staple assembly (300) can be driven by means of the pull cable (4) to rotate synchronously. The operation of controlling the rotation of the surgical staple assembly (300) and the operation of controlling the extension and retraction of the surgical staple assembly (300) are independent from each other, which is convenient for surgeons to separately control, facilitating the improvement of the operation precision. Therefore, the surgical quality is improved.

A sterile staple implant system is provided for use during a surgery. The staple implant system comprises a group of complementary surgery-specific instruments that are packaged in a sterile state. An instrument tray is configured to preserve the instruments in the sterile state until the staple implant system is opened during the surgery. The instrument tray is configured to provide the surgeon with easy access to the instruments during the surgery. The staple implant system comprises at least a staple inserter and a surgical staple suitable for being implanted in parallel holes drilled across a bone fusion or fixation site of a patient. The surgical staple preferably is loaded in a relaxed configuration into the staple inserter. A staple retention clip retains the surgical staple in the staple inserter until the staple is distracted during the surgery.