Novare公司的EndoLink内镜手术工具套件

一系列用于腹腔镜外科手术的器械套件，是供单次使用的手工操作器械，具有六度关节范围的自由度.这些设备已经获得了美国食品药品管理局的许可.

这些工具套件包括:夹子、解剖器、针筒、剪刀,能够帮助外科医生在胃旁路手术、心脏旁路手术、肺叶切除术,以及其它普通或者泌尿科手术的时候,进行创伤性较小的操作.这套EndoLink系统增强了外科医生解剖上进入以及控制的设备,而使用传统直接腹腔镜设备是无法达到这一目标的.

开发这种新型工具套件的Novare外科系统公司总裁兼首席执行官Kerry Pope解释说:“我们的新系统能够被装配在只有3毫米大小的设备中,能够象人手腕一样活动自如.这给了外科医生更多的控制与进入体内的能力,能够进行创伤性很小的手术.”

与传统腹腔镜设备只能提供4度自由度(上/下,左/右,旋转,进/出)不同,这种EndoLink设备还具有将手腕左/右以及上/下移动的功能.这种额外的2个方向的自由度减少了操作的复杂性,缩短了学习高通量微创手术的曲线.

美国亚特兰大Piedmont医院胸外科医生William Mayfield医生说:"EndoLink将外科医生的手腕放进了胸腔之中,整合进EndoLink系统的设备操作方便、直观、可以测量,使得外科医生能够直接进行内镜操作,而不管他或者她以前是否操作过传统设备."【本文由美迪医疗网成扬编译】

Tools for Laparoscopic Surgery
 
A family of surgical instruments for laparoscopic use are single-use handheld instruments that incorporate six degrees of articulating freedom. The instruments have been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The set comprises a grasper, dissector, needle drive, and scissors that enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive approaches in gastric bypass, cardiac bypass, pulmonary lobectomy, and other general and urologic procedures. This EndoLink system offers a surgeon enhanced anatomical access and device control not available with traditional straight laparoscopic instruments.

“Our novel system can be incorporated into instruments as small as 3 mm and enable articulation similar to a human wrist. This gives the surgeon greater control and access that can provide important gains in minimally invasive surgery,” explained Kerry Pope, president and CEO of Novare Surgical Systems, Inc. (Cupertino, CA, USA), which developed the new set of tools.

Unlike traditional endoscopic instruments that feature four degrees of freedom (up/down, left/right, rotation, and in/out actuation), the EndoLink instruments also feature the ability to move the wrist left/right and up/down. These additional two degrees of freedom enable a whole new class of minimally invasive procedures and can significantly reduce the complexity and shorten the learning curve of a number of high-volume minimally invasive procedures.

“The EndoLink places the surgeon’s wrist inside the chest,” stated William Mayfield, M.D., thoracic surgeon at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta (GA, USA). “Instruments that incorporate the EndoLink system are easy to use, intuitive, scalable, and allow the surgeon to perform endoscopically directed maneuvers that he or she could never perform before with conventional instruments.”