Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

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Ethicon, Gmbh

Cilag International Gmbh

Robert Perrin Gill

James Walden Voegele

Christopher J Hess

William Bruce Weisenburgh, Ii

Michael A Murray

Frederick E Shelton, IV

Christopher W Widenhouse

William T Donofrio

Richard F Schwemberger

Michael S Cropper

Muta M Issa

David Keith Norvell

Richard Michael Harper

Mary E Schramm

William Bruce Weisenburgh

Gary Lee Long

Kyle P Moore

Jonathan A Coe

Andrew M Zwolinski

William P Geis

Aaron C Voegele

William B Weisenburgh

Jason A Born

Jerome R Morgan

Mark S Ortiz

Eitan T Wiener

Ashvani K Madan

William Jason White

Randal T Byrum

William David Kelly

Michael F Clem

Carl J Shurtleff

Ronald John Kolata

Robert J Dunki-Jacobs

Mark Tsonton

Michael D Cronin

Michael P Weir

Matthew D Holcomb

Darrel M Powell

Douglas J Turner

Paul G Ritchie

Robert G Cook

David C Youmans

Daniel W Drew

Joyce A Duell

James W Vlegele

Frank L Lyman

Youseph Yazdi

Karen M Morgan

K Madan Ashvani

Frederick E Shelton Iv

Iv Frederick E Shelton

Ii William Bruce Weisenburgh

William B Ii Weisenburgh

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

Methods and devices are provided for performing various procedures using interchangeable end effectors. In general, the methods and devices allow a surgeon to remotely and selectively attach various interchangeable surgical end effectors to a shaft located within a patient's body, thus allowing the surgeon to perform various procedures without the need to remove the shaft from the patient's body. In an exemplary embodiment, multiple end effectors can be introduced into a body cavity. The end effectors can be disassociated or separate from one another such that they float within the body cavity. A distal end of a shaft can be positioned within the body cavity and it can be used to selectively engage one of the end effectors. In particular, the device can be configured to allow each end effector to be remotely attached and detached from the distal end of the shaft.

Detachable end effectors

Methods and devices are provided for cutting and fastening tissue. In one embodiment, a surgical device can be used to at least partially transect a stomach by not cutting and/or not fastening a portion of tissue engaged in an end effector located at the device's distal end. A portion of the stomach can be engaged by the end effector, and the end effector can be actuated to cut and/or to apply one or more fasteners to tissue engaged in a distal portion of the end effector but not to cut and/or apply fasteners to tissue engaged in a proximal portion of the end effector. In a similar way, the surgical device can be used in any surgical procedure in which it is desired to cut and/or fasten a distal portion of tissue engaged by the end effector but not a proximal portion of tissue engaged by the end effector.

Methods and devices for cutting and fastening tissue

A method and devices for accomplishing the successful anastomosis of two hollow organ structures are disclosed. The method includes bringing the structures together, applying at least one fastener to hold the structures together and form a connection site, and applying, as alternatives or in conjunction, an adhesive, a wrap and/or a buttress about the connection site. Various examples of fasteners, fastener appliers, adhesives, adhesive initiators and buttress rings also are disclosed.

Method and device for effecting anastomosis of hollow organ structures using adhesive and fasteners

A laparoscopic seal assembly includes a seal cap having a seal with an access opening. The seal cap also includes a manifold connection for attachment of a functional apparatus. The seal assembly further includes a retractor. The functional apparatus may be a finger mounted tether or an insufflations passageway. The functional apparatus may be combined or provided separately.

Manifold for laparoscopic seal assembly

A system for examining an area of a patient's anatomy that comprises a probe capable of fluorescing, and a scanning beam assembly that scans the probe with a beam of excitation radiation and detects the probe's fluorescence. The scanning beam assembly including a radiation source capable of emitting one or more wavelengths of radiation that are capable of exciting the probe and causing the probe to fluoresce, a scanning device that directs the radiation onto a field-of-view to create a scan of the field-of-view, a detector to detect radiation returned from the field-of-view, and a controller to convert the detected radiation into a displayable fluorescence image.

System and method using fluorescence to examine within a patient's anatomy

A surgical access device includes a base having two or more ports or apertures that provide for the insertion of surgical instruments. The multi-port insert may be used with a laparoscopic access device. The multi-port insert may also include one or more instrument supports that are attached to the base to fix the position of one or more surgical instruments inserted through the multi-port insert.

Multi-port laparoscopic access device

Access device

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Robert Perrin Gill