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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2013
Cook Medical Technologies Llc, Bloomington, IN (US);
Electromedical Associates, Llc, Bethesda, MD (US);
Robert A. Van Wyk, St. Pete Beach, FL (US);
Yuval Carmel, Bethesda, MD (US);
Anatoly Shkvarunets, Rockville, MD (US);
Shay Lavelle, Annacotty, IE;
Therese Fitzgibbon, Newcastle West, IE;
Kenneth C. Kennedy, II, Clemmons, NC (US);
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Electromedical Associates, LLC, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an electrosurgical device that include one or more floating electrodes and are specifically adapted to remove, resect, ablate, vaporize, denaturize, coagulate and form lesions in soft tissues, preferably in combination with a resectoscope, particularly in the context of urological, gynecological, laparoscopic, arthroscopic, and ENT procedures. Specific adaptations for urological and gynecological applications, for example BPH treatment, are also described.