Aesculap Ag & Co Kg

Aesculap Ag

Thomas Weik

Dieter Weisshaupt

Theodor Lutze

Manfred Dworschak

Stefan Schuster

John Gray-Dreizler

Wolfgang Burger

Harald Stallforth

Jens-Rainer Allenberg

Dieter Weißhaupt

A permanent filter for a medical sterilization container is provided. The permanent filter is made from a ceramic. The ceramic is made from globular substrate grains. A medical sterilization container is also provided, in particular for receiving and storing objects to be sterilized, having a container bottom part and a container top part for closing the container bottom part in a closed position of the sterilization container. At least one of the container bottom part and the container top part have a gas exchange orifice, which is closed with a permanent filter. The permanent filter is made from a ceramic and the ceramic is made from globular substrate grains. In addition, a method is provided for producing a permanent filter for a medical sterilization container. The permanent filter is produced from a ceramic material by sintering. Globular substrate grains are used as the ceramic material.

Permanent filter for a sterilization container, sterilization container and method for producing a permanent filter

With an insertion catheter for inserting a vascular prosthesis into a vessel, with an elongate, substantially tubular catheter cover having a proximal and a distal end, with an outlet for the vascular prosthesis provided at the distal end, in order to make insertion of the vascular prosthesis into the vessel particularly safe and simple, in particular, to provide the vascular prosthesis with protection against twisting, it is proposed that the outlet have a cross-sectional shape differing from a circular shape, and that the cross-sectional area defined by the outlet area be smaller than the cross-sectional area of the vascular prosthesis inserted in the vessel in the opened, unexpanded state.

Insertion catheter for vascular prosthesis

In order to permanently position a tubular implant in a vessel in such a way that it is sealed off in relation to the vessel wall, a device for inserting such an implant is proposed, which is characterized by an introducing head having an advancing handle and being insertable into the implant, with radially outwardly movable spreading elements arranged on the circumference of the introducing head, and by a locking member mounted for displacement on the introducing head and displaceable via a transmission member between a rest position in which the spreading elements are radially retracted and a spread position in which the spreading elements protrude radially outwards.

Device for inserting a tubular implant into a vessel

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Tuttlingen, Germany

Thomas Weik