Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Cilag International Gmbh

Biomet C.v.

Sorin Group Usa, Inc.

Bepuy Products, Inc.

Christopher J Hess

Frederick E Shelton, IV

William Bruce Weisenburgh, Ii

Jerome R Morgan

James Walden Voegele

Jason L Harris

Michael F Clem

Rudolph Henry Nobis

Robert Perrin Gill

Gary W Knight

Michael A Murray

Michael J Stokes

Gregory J Bakos

Taylor W Aronhalt

Dale R Schulze

Carl J Shurtleff

Douglas E Withers

Emily A Schellin

Michael S Cropper

Michael J Vendely

Mark S Ortiz

Daniel J Mumaw

Christopher W Widenhouse

Chester O Baxter, Iii

Mark S Zeiner

John V Hunt

Barry C Worrell

Joseph E Young

Christopher J Schall

Jeffrey S Swayze

Sean P Conlon

Thomas Edward Albrecht

David T Martin

David Keith Norvell

Joshua R Uth

Trevor J Barton

Ronald John Kolata

Heather Strang

Pamela M Ridgley

David C Yates

William Jason White

David B Griffith

Darrel M Powell

Mark D Overmyer

Gary Lee Long

Steven G Hall

David Stefanchik

Adam David Hensel

Adam R Dunki-Jacobs

Andrew M Zwolinski

James J Bedi

Andrew C Deck

Kevin L Houser

Jeffrey L Aldridge

Shailendra Kumar Parihar

Galen C Robertson

Prasanna Malaviya

James T Spivey

Daniel L Baber

Daniel F Dlugos, Jr

James A Woodard, Jr

Michael D Cronin

Alessandro Pastorelli

Jeffrey David Messerly

Foster B Stulen

Thomas W Huitema

Gregory W Johnson

Omar J Vakharia

Katherine J Schmid

Lauren S Weaner

Gregory G Scott

Sarah Alexandra Worthington

David N Plescia

Aaron C Voegele

Alexander R Cuti

Jeffery D Bruns

Kevin A Larson

Kevin Michael Fiebig

Richard William Timm

Andrew T Beckman

Eugene L Timperman

Kyle P Moore

Jacob Spencer Gee

Zhifan F Huang

Tamara S Widenhouse

Chad E Eckert

John E Brady

Brian D Schings

Joshua P Morgan

David L Hamann

Federico Bilotti

Nathan Daniel Grubbs

Amy L Marcotte

Aron O Zingman

Jesse J Kuhns

Mark Tsonton

Robert Mason Trusty

Leslie M Fugikawa

Michele D'Arcangelo

Nichole Y Kwee

An assembly includes an applicator, which includes a housing defining a gap configured to receive an end effector jaw of a surgical stapler. The applicator also includes a platform positioned within the gap. The assembly also includes a buttress assembly having a first length and positioned on the platform. The assembly further includes a trimming feature presented by the applicator or the buttress assembly, and configured to facilitate trimming of the buttress assembly from the first length to a predetermined second length.

Surgical stapler buttress with variable length feature

A method of applying a buttress to a surgically cut and stapled site uses an end effector with a buttress applier cartridge assembly to load one or more buttress assemblies to the end effector. The buttress assemblies each include a buttress to support a staple formed therein as well an adhesive for adhering to the end effector. The adhesive of the buttress assemblies can include a pattern to assist in both attachment to the end effector and release from the end effector after cutting and stapling a tissue site. The buttress applier cartridge can include features that accommodate end effectors having various tip configurations, including straight tips and curved or bent tips.

Method of applying buttresses to surgically cut and stapled sites

A method of surgical stapling that uses a surgical instrument operable to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The instrument includes a body, a shaft, and an end effector with a pair of jaws. A placement tip extends distally from one of the jaws of the end effector. The method includes positioning the end effector at a desired site for surgical stapling. The method also includes controlling one or more of the jaws of the end effector to place the end effector in an open position. The method also includes positioning the end effector such that tissue is located between the jaws. The method also includes clamping the tissue between the jaws by moving at least one of the jaws toward the other jaw. The method also includes advancing a firing beam of the apparatus from a proximal position to a distal position.

Method of surgical stapling with end effector component having a curved tip

A staple having a crown, a deformable leg extending from the crown, and a spring extending from the crown configured to compress tissue between the spring and the deformable member. Owing to the flexibility of the spring, the staple can accommodate a wide range of tissue thicknesses while still compressing the tissue captured therein. As a result, a single staple design can be used in a wide variety of surgical procedures thereby reducing the amount of staple designs that must be provided to the surgeon. In at least one embodiment, the staple includes a crushable member. This crushable member can include a plastically deformable first portion and an elastically deformable second portion. The present invention can also include, in various embodiments, a crown, a first deformable member extending from the crown, and means for compressing the tissue against the first deformable member.

Surgical staples having compressible or crushable members for securing tissue therein and stapling instruments for deploying the same

Display panel with changeable graphical user interface

A surgical stapler including an anvil, a staple cartridge, and a buttress material removably retained to the anvil and/or staple cartridge. In various embodiments, the staple cartridge can include at least one staple removably stored therein which can, when deployed, or fired, therefrom, contact the buttress material and remove the buttress material from the anvil and/or staple cartridge. In at least one embodiment, the anvil can include at least one lip and/or groove configured to removably retain the buttress material to the anvil until deformable members extending from the surgical staple are bent by the anvil and are directed toward and contact the buttress material.

Surgical stapling instrument having a releasable buttress material

Methods for fabricating an anvil for a surgical stapling device. Various methods include forming an anvil body from a first material and a deformable anvil tip from a second material and attaching the deformable anvil tip to a distal end of the anvil body with a deformable second attachment member. Other methods include molding a deformable anvil tip to a distal end of an anvil body.

Method for fabricating surgical stapler anvils

Surgical staple cartridge including tissue supporting surfaces

Circular stapling instruments and anvil assemblies. The anvil assemblies may have collapsible anvil support members that may be inserted through an opening in a patient and then expanded to be attached to an anvil plate assembly that has a staple-forming surface thereon. The anvil support member is attachable to the anvil plate assembly in such a way that when the anvil assembly is coupled to the stapling head of a circular stapler, the staple-forming surface is in substantial registry with the staples supported in the stapling head. A variety of different anvil support members and anvil plate assemblies are disclosed.

Anvil assemblies for circular staplers

Staple cartridge having staple cavities extending at a transverse angle relative to a longitudinal cartridge axis

Various devices are provided for allowing multiple surgical instruments to be inserted through a single surgical access device at variable angles of insertion, allowing for ease of manipulation within a patient's body while maintaining insufflation. Safety shields and release mechanisms are also provided for use with various surgical access devices.

Surgical access device

A method for deforming a staple comprising a base, a first staple leg, and a second staple leg, wherein the base, the first staple leg, and the second staple leg are positioned within a common plane prior to being deformed, the method comprising positioning the first staple leg within a first cup of a staple pocket, the first cup comprising a first inner surface, applying a first compressive force to the first staple leg to bend the first staple leg toward the base and the second staple leg, contacting the first inner surface with the end of the first staple leg to bend the end of the first staple leg toward a first side of the base, and deforming the first staple leg such that the end of the first staple leg crosses a mid-line of the staple defined between the first staple leg and the second staple leg.

Powered surgical instrument

Surgical stapling assemblies

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Christopher J Hess