Christopher J. Hess,Frederick E. Shelton, IV,Ryan A. Bledsoe,Jeffrey L. Savage,Craig T. Gates,Douglas E. Withers
申请号：
US14930952
公开号：
US20170119360A1
申请日:
2015.11.03
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
Devices and methods for organizing a plurality of end effectors and selectively delivering them through surgical trocars are described herein. In one embodiment, a surgical end effector loading device is provided that includes at least one mating element to interface with a surgical trocar, a deployment lumen positioned to align with a working channel of a surgical trocar, an end effector repository having a plurality of end effector lumens formed therein to receive end effectors, the repository being configured to selectively align any of the plurality of end effector lumens with the deployment lumen, and an advancer coupled to the repository and configured to advance an end effector from the repository through the deployment lumen.
