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Surgical device for stabilizing or immobilizing moving tissue

US10098623B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Aesculap AG · DE

Inventors

Robert Vogtherr · Tuttlingen, DE
Dominik Seyfried · Königsfeld, DE
Andreas Elisch · Schramberg, DE
Thomas Beck · Durchhausen, DE
Michele Genoni · Bellinzona, CH
Dieter Weisshaupt
Pedro Morales · Tuttlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 14, 2014
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 3, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2090/571
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

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.

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