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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2014
Medtronic-xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Dana A. Oliver, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Phillip J. Berman, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Thoai Nguyen, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Louis M. Shadeck, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
A surgical method of removing tissue of a patient includes grasping a surgical cutting instrument. The instrument includes an outer blade including a tubular body, an end cap, and a cutting window defined by an edge on at least the end cap, and an inner blade including a cutting tip, the inner blade co-axially disposed within the outer blade, the cutting tip including a cutting edge extending toward the end cap of the outer blade, wherein the cutting tip is rotatably exposed at the cutting window. The method further includes positioning the cutting window and cutting tip to a target site, supplying fluid through an irrigation pathway to the cutting window and the target site, rotating the cutting tip of the inner blade to selectively cut the tissue, and aspirating fluid and cut tissue.