Cilag International Gmbh

Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

John B Schulte

Ryan M Asher

Craig N Faller

Jacob Spencer Gee

Jeffrey David Messerly

Richard William Timm

Jeffrey L Aldridge

Daniel W Price

Cory G Kimball

Foster B Stulen

Eitan T Wiener

Timothy G Dietz

William Eugene Clem

Gregory W Johnson

Sean P Conlon

David A Witt

Brian D Black

William Bruce Weisenburgh, Ii

William D Dannaher

Frederick E Shelton, IV

Jerome R Morgan

Barry C Worrell

Daniel J Mumaw

Kyle P Moore

Benjamin D Dickerson

Ashvani K Madan

Chester O Baxter, Iii

Chad Paul Boudreaux

John V Hunt

Gregory A Trees

David C Yates

Charles J Scheib

Gregory J Bakos

Kevin L Houser

John A Hibner

Matthew C Miller

Geoffrey S Strobl

Jeffrey S Swayze

Shailendra Kumar Parihar

Rudolph Henry Nobis

David T Martin

Prasanna Malaviya

Wells D Haberstich

Michael J Vendely

Mark S Zeiner

James R Giordano

James Walden Voegele

Steven G Hall

Eugene L Timperman

Galen C Robertson

Gavin Martin Monson

Tamara S Widenhouse

Zhifan F Huang

Michael R Lamping

Tylor C Muhlenkamp

Amy L Marcotte

Stephen J Balek

Kristen G Denzinger

Patrick A Weizman

Joshua P Morgan

Joshua Henderson

Brian D Bertke

Donna L Korvick

Randal T Byrum

William David Kelly

Andrew W Carroll

Michael D Cronin

Eric B Smith

Stephen M Leuck

Sora Rhee

Craig T Davis

Frederick L Estera

Jeffrey P Wiley

Jonathan T Batross

David Alexander Monroe

William A Olson

Jeffery Kirk

Daniel J Abbott

Paul T Franer

Benjamin M Boyd

John Eric Hein

David James Cagle

Disha V Labhasetwar

Benjamin J Danziger

Shan Wan

James A Woodard, Jr

Patrick Jarvis Scoggins

Scott A Nield

John W Willis

Kevin D Felder

Aaron C Voegele

Scott A Woodruff

Gary B McAlister

Brendan J Oberkircher

Richard C Smith

Aron O Zingman

Julia Hwang

Robert J Laird

Stuart K Morgan

Catherine A Corbett

A surgical apparatus includes a body assembly, a shaft, an acoustic waveguide, an articulation section, an end effector, and a rigidizing member. The shaft extends distally from the body assembly and defines a longitudinal axis. The acoustic waveguide includes a flexible portion. The articulation section is coupled with the shaft. A portion of the articulation section encompasses the flexible portion of the waveguide. The articulation section includes a first member and a second member. The second member is longitudinally translatable relative to the first member. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade in acoustic communication with the waveguide. The rigidizing member is configured to selectively engage at least a portion of the articulation section to thereby selectively provide rigidity to the articulation section.

Ultrasonic surgical instrument with movable rigidizing member

A surgical instrument operable to sever tissue includes a body assembly and a selectively coupleable end effector assembly. The end effector assembly may include a transmission assembly and an end effector. The body assembly includes a trigger and a casing configured to couple with the transmission assembly. An information transmission system transmits instrument information received from a sensor, for example, to a secure server via a secure gateway connected to the instrument. The instrument may be previously tested on a calibration kit to pre-determine and load surgeon-specific settings onto the instrument prior to use.

Surgical instrument usage data management

A method of operating a modular surgical system including a control module, a first surgical module, and a second surgical module is disclosed. The method includes detachably connecting the first surgical module to the control module by stacking the first surgical module with the control module in a stack configuration, detachably connecting the second surgical module to the first surgical module by stacking the second surgical module with the control module and the first surgical module in the stack configuration, powering up the modular surgical system, and monitoring distribution of power from a power supply of the control module to the first surgical module and the second surgical module.

Method for energy distribution in a surgical modular energy system

A surgical apparatus comprises a body, an ultrasonic transducer, a shaft, and an end effector. The ultrasonic transducer is operable to convert electrical power into ultrasonic vibrations. The body comprises a pivotal trigger. The shaft couples the end effector and the body together. The end effector comprises a clamp arm and an ultrasonic blade in acoustic communication with the ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic blade is operable to deliver ultrasonic vibrations to tissue. Pivotal movement of the trigger causes movement of the clamp arm. The trigger includes a compliant feature configured to limit the amount of force delivered to tissue by the clamp arm. The flexible feature may comprise a flexible band, living hinge, a series of living hinges, or a flexible tab.

Handpiece and blade configurations for ultrasonic surgical instrument

An apparatus includes a shaft assembly, an ultrasonic blade, and a clamp assembly. The shaft assembly includes an acoustic waveguide operable to transmit ultrasonic vibrations to the blade. The clamp assembly includes a clamp arm pivotable toward and away from the blade about a pivot axis, to clamp tissue between the clamp arm and the blade. A rotation feature may provide rotation of the blade relative to the clamp arm about the longitudinal axis of the waveguide. Alternatively, the rotation feature may provide rotation of the clamp arm relative to the blade about the longitudinal axis. The rotation feature may be driven based on pivotal positioning of the clamp arm relative to the blade about the pivot axis. The rotation feature may selectively lock and unlock the angular position of either the blade or the clamp arm about the longitudinal axis at any of a number of predetermined angular positions.

Rotation features for ultrasonic surgical instrument

Staple cartridge systems with implantable adjuncts and retainers are disclosed. The staple cartridge systems ensure the full-cutting of the implantable adjuncts through the structure/manufacturing of the implantable adjuncts and the retainers.

Implantable adjunct to assure full cutting

An energy module connectable to a surgical instrument is disclosed. The energy module can include a circuit, which can include a first amplifier and a second amplifier coupled to a port of the energy module to which a surgical instrument is connectable. The first amplifier can be configured to generate a first drive signal at a first frequency range and the second amplifier can be configured to generate a second drive signal at a second frequency range. The circuit can be configured to control the amplifiers to deliver the first drive signal, the second drive signal, and/or a combination of the first and second drive signals to a surgical instrument connected to the port.

Energy module for driving multiple energy modalities through a port

An energy module for driving electrosurgical and/or ultrasonic surgical instruments is disclosed. The energy module can include an amplifier assembly that is configured to drive a variety of different energy modalities for one or more surgical instruments connected thereto. The energy module can further include a relay assembly for selectively coupling one or more of the amplifiers to different ports to which the surgical instruments are connectable. The amplifier assembly can include amplifiers for driving ultrasonic, bipolar, and/or monopolar energy.

Energy module for driving multiple energy modalities

A modular surgical system for use in a surgical procedure to treat tissue is disclosed. The modular surgical system includes a footer module including a power supply, a first surgical module configured to be stacked on top of the footer module, and a second surgical module configured to be stacked on top of the first surgical module. The first surgical module is detachably couplable to the footer module to receive power from the power supply of the footer module to generate a first therapeutic energy for delivery to the tissue. The second surgical module is detachably couplable to the first surgical module to receive power from the power supply of the footer module to generate a second therapeutic energy for delivery to the tissue.

Surgical modular energy system with footer module

Systems, devices, and methods are operable to track usage of a surgical instrument and modify the performance of the surgical instrument based on the prior usage of the surgical instrument. Some surgical instruments are designed to have a limited service life beginning at their first use, or a limit to their overall usage in order to ensure safe use of the sensitive instruments. However, a lack of ability to track usage characteristics when the instrument is separated from an external power supply allows for user abuse and avoidance of such safety mechanisms. Adding a battery or capacitor to the instrument may allow for an ability to track usage when the instrument is separated from an external power supply. Implementing special user prompts, device use ratios, and device use half-life upon powering down of an instrument may additionally be used to prevent circumvention of safety features.

System and method to track usage of surgical instrument

A modular surgical system is disclosed includes a header module including a power supply, a first surgical module, a second surgical module, and a segmented power backplane. The first surgical module is arrangeable in a stack configuration with the header module and the second surgical module. The segmented power backplane includes a first backplane segment in the header module, a second backplane segment in the first surgical module, and a third backplane segment in the second surgical module. The second backplane segment is detachably coupled to the first backplane segment in the stack configuration and the third backplane segment is detachably coupled to the second backplane segment in the stack configuration. The first backplane segment, the second backplane segment, and the third backplane segment are configured to cooperate to transmit energy from the power supply to the second surgical module in the stack configuration.

Surgical modular energy system with a segmented backplane

A method for constructing a modular surgical system is disclosed. The method comprises providing a header module comprising a first power backplane segment, providing a surgical module comprising a second power backplane segment, assembling the header module and the surgical module to electrically couple the first power backplane segment and the second power backplane segment to each other to form a power backplane, and applying power to the surgical module through the power backplane.

Method for constructing and using a modular surgical energy system with multiple devices

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

John B Schulte