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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
Aesculap Ag, Tuttlingen, DE;
Robert Vogtherr, Tuttlingen, DE;
Dominik Seyfried, Königsfeld, DE;
Andreas Elisch, Schramberg, DE;
Thomas Beck, Durchhausen, DE;
Michele Genoni, Zürich, CH;
Dieter Weisshaupt, Immendingen, DE;
Pedro Morales, Tuttlingen-Nendingen, DE;
Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
A surgical device for stabilizing or immobilizing moved tissue or for positioning organs, especially a part of a beating heart, includes a flexible arm, especially a link arm, fixed or fixable to a base member which arm can be brought into different positions and/or attitudes and at the free end of which at least one retaining element is arranged, and comprising a tightening mechanism by which the arm can be fixed at a desired position. The tightening mechanism is tightened and/or released by means of a manually controllable external power source.