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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Gyrus Medical Limited, Cardiff, GB;

Inventor:

Tony Atwell, Newport, GB;

Assignee:

GYRUS MEDICAL LIMITED, Cardiff, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/44 (2006.01); A61B 18/04 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/042 (2013.01); A61B 18/1206 (2013.01); A61B 18/14 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00296 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00469 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00583 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00589 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00863 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00982 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1495 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of operating an electrosurgical apparatus for coagulating tissue comprises inserting the electrosurgical instrument into an endoscope, and activating a source to supply ionisable gas to the electrosurgical instrument at a flow rate of less than a predetermined threshold flow rate while the electrosurgical instrument is being inserted into the endoscope. Once the electrosurgical instrument has been fully inserted into the endoscope, the source is activated to supply ionisable gas to the electrosurgical instrument at a flow rate of greater than the predetermined threshold flow rate. Finally, high frequency energy is supplied from an electrosurgical generator to the electrosurgical instrument, in order to ionise the ionisable gas flowing to the electrosurgical instrument.


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