Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Cilag International Gmbh

Devicor Medical Products, Inc.

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.

Senmed, Inc.

Pilling Weck Incorporated

Cllag Gmbh International

Ehticon Endo-surgery, LLC

John V Hunt

Frederick E Shelton, IV

Chester O Baxter, Iii

Michael J Vendely

Christopher J Hess

Jason L Harris

Cory G Kimball

Emily A Schellin

Trevor J Barton

Gregory J Bakos

Mark S Zeiner

Barry Thomas Jamison

David C Yates

Richard L Leimbach

Richard William Timm

Omar J Vakharia

Gavin Martin Monson

Daniel W Price

James Walden Voegele

Sean P Conlon

Jerome R Morgan

Taylor W Aronhalt

Shane R Adams

Mark D Overmyer

Anil K Nalagatla

Bennie Thompson

Randal T Byrum

Ronald John Kolata

Mark S Ortiz

John A Hibner

Craig N Faller

Christopher C Miller

Christopher W Widenhouse

Joshua R Uth

William D Fox

Zhifan F Huang

John B Schulte

Kevin D Felder

Kevin L Houser

William Bruce Weisenburgh, Ii

Barry C Worrell

Jeffrey L Aldridge

Timothy G Dietz

David A Witt

Dale R Schulze

Michael S Cropper

Geoffrey C Hueil

Adam R Dunki-Jacobs

Joseph E Young

Patrick A Weizman

Michael A Murray

Daniel J Abbott

Cortney E Henderson

David L Hamann

Carl J Shurtleff

Paul T Franer

Michael J Stokes

Kevin Michael Fiebig

Brett E Swensgard

Gregory W Johnson

Matthew C Miller

David T Martin

Richard P Nuchols

Israel Nur

Jeffrey S Swayze

Chad Paul Boudreaux

Jeffrey David Messerly

Foster B Stulen

Eitan T Wiener

Andrew T Beckman

Thomas W Huitema

Shailendra Kumar Parihar

Richard F Schwemberger

Galen C Robertson

Gregory A Trees

Ryan M Asher

Gary W Knight

Benjamin D Dickerson

William Eugene Clem

William D Dannaher

Prasanna Malaviya

Lauren S Weaner

Andrew M Zwolinski

Brian D Schings

This Aebi

Brian D Black

Ashvani K Madan

Craig B Berky

Wells D Haberstich

David Keith Norvell

Donna L Korvick

Kristen G Denzinger

Ryan J Laurent

David James Cagle

Kevin Shaun Weadock

David N Plescia

Scott A Woodruff

Tylor C Muhlenkamp

Christopher J Schall

William E Cohn

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

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

A surgical stapler, or fastening instrument, may generally comprise a layer, such as a tissue thickness compensator, for example, releasably attached to a fastener cartridge and/or anvil by a flowable attachment portion. The flowable attachment portion may be indefinitely flowable. The flowable attachment portion may be flowable from the time that layer is installed to the fastener cartridge to the time in which the layer is implanted to patient tissue. The flowable attachment portion may comprise a pressure sensitive adhesive. The flowable attachment portion may comprise an adhesive laminate comprising a base layer comprising the tissue thickness compensator and an adhesive layer on at least a portion of a surface of the base layer comprising the pressure sensitive adhesive. Articles of manufacture comprising flowable attachment portion and methods of making and using the flowable attachment portion are also described.

Adhesive film laminate

A surgical instrument includes an ultrasonic waveguide extending through a body assembly. An ultrasonic blade connects to the ultrasonic waveguide. A clamp arm assembly of the surgical instrument is able to move from an opened position for receiving a tissue toward a closed position for clamping the tissue. The clamp arm assembly includes a clamp body and a clamp pad facing the ultrasonic blade. A clamp arm actuator of the surgical instrument is able to move from a first position toward a second position to direct the clamp arm assembly from the opened position toward the closed position. A modular coupling of the surgical instrument connects to the clamp pad such that at least the clamp pad can be disconnected relative to the ultrasonic blade for replacement thereof.

Surgical instrument with removable end effector components

Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface

A device includes an outer sleeve of flexible material forming an outer conduit extending longitudinally therethrough for the insertion of a bone treatment device ('BTD') to target sites within a living body. A distal opening of the outer conduit is open so that, when the outer sleeve is in a desired position within the body, BTD is inserted through the outer conduit exits the outer sleeve adjacent to a target portion of a bone. The device also includes an inner sleeve received within the outer sleeve and defining an inner conduit within the outer conduit to form a protective covering. The inner sleeve is split longitudinally. Portions of the inner sleeve on opposite sides of the split are coupled to one another so that a diameter of the inner conduit is adjustable in response to forces exerted thereon by one of BTD and tissues surrounding the outer sleeve.

Device and system for facilitating insertion of a bone treatment device

A packaging assembly is designed for an applicator that contains a buttress assembly that is used with a surgical stapler to reinforce a cut and stapled tissue site. The packaging assembly protects the buttress assembly from damage due to physical contact as well as exposure to adverse environmental factors like excess moisture, etc. In one example the packaging assembly includes a dual tray design with an inner tray that holds the applicator. The combined inner tray and applicator are hermetically sealed within a foil assembly or foil pouch. The foil pouch with the inner tray and applicator within is placed within the outer tray to protect the foil from damage.

Packaging for surgical stapler buttress

Applicator tray for a buttress applicator for a surgical stapler

A method of suturing a trocar path incision in a tissue of a patient with an obturator includes inserting the obturator through the tissue such that a shaft of the obturator extends through a tissue opening about the trocar path incision and a distal tip of the obturator is positioned within a cavity of the patient. The method also includes directing the suture via a suturing feature with the obturator inserted through the tissue in order to direct the suture relative to the tissue. Furthermore, the method includes closing the tissue opening about the trocar path incision with the suture.

Method of suturing a trocar path incision

Applicator for a surgical stapler buttress

In one example, a system has an insertion handle that can be coupled to an intramedullary nail and includes a first coupler that defines one of a recess and a projection, and one of a latch and an abutment surface. The system has an aiming guide that includes a guide body that defines at least one alignment aperture therethrough. The aiming guide includes a second coupler that can couple the guide body to the first coupler such that the at least one alignment aperture is positioned to guide an instrument towards at least one bone-anchor fixation hole of the intramedullary nail. The second coupler defines another of the recess and the projection, and another of the latch and the abutment surface. The first and second couplers can couple to one another by receiving the projection in the recess and by engaging the latch with the abutment surface.

System and method of coupling an alignment guide to an intramedullary nail insertion handle

A method is used to reduce a volume of a stomach of a patient. The method includes inverting a portion of a stomach wall to thereby create an inverted portion. An expandable member is positioned adjacent to the outer surface of the inverted portion. The expandable member is expanded to thereby expand the inverted portion. The expanded expandable member has a first outer diameter. A base region of the inverted portion is cinched to thereby capture the expanded expandable member in the expanded inverted portion. The expanded expandable member has a first outer diameter. Expanding and cinching provide a cinch diameter to first outer diameter ratio from approximately 0.5:1 to approximately 0.9:1.

Apparatus and method for gastric volume reduction utilizing an expandable member

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

John V Hunt