Olympus Winter Ibe Gmbh

Jorg Dickopp

Thomas Wosnitza

Henning Wedler

A disposable implement insertable into an endoscope and comprising at least one zone matched to the shape of the endoscope. The at least one zone is designed to be permanently deformed on account of having been used a first time by the inevitable mechanical, thermal and/or chemical treatment it undergoes in the endoscope, and before renewed use in the endoscope. Deformation of the at least one zone eliminates shape-matching of the zone to the endoscope, and is readily visually apparent to a user.

Disposable implement inserted into an endoscope

A urological resectoscope includes a main casing and an optic guide plate mounted proximally to and a fixed distance from the main casing. A slider is displaceably guided between the main casing and the optic guide plate. A drive rod is detachably affixed to the slider at a first distance from an optic tube longitudinally passing through the resectoscope and in a first angular position to the grip, said rod running from the slider, parallel to the optic tube, through the main casing and then in a second angular position relative to the optic tube and at a second, minute distance from it, and the optic tube together with matched, tightly enclosing stem tube of matched cross-section running as far as said stem tube's distal end zone, the drive rod supporting a surgical implement, characterized in that a free space corresponding at least to the excursion of the drive rod is provided in the main casing and is fitted in the region of the free space with a deviation site where it is pivoted out of the first angular position and first distance from said optic tube into the second angular position and the second distance.

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Reinbeck, Germany

Jorg Dickopp