Abstract: With this device the rinsing fluid is located in a container which may be set under pressure with a gas and into which pressurised gas via a cannula may be introduced and from which rinsing fluid may be removed via another cannula. The respective filled condition of the container is acquired with a sensor, wherein the temporal course of the gas pressure in the container or of the gas flow into the container is measured and on ascertaining a gas pressure fall or gas flow rise after points in time specific to the system the means may be deactivated.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a gel mass based on reaction products of polyols and polyisocyanates, wherein the polyol component consists of one or more polyols with hydroxyl numbers below 112 and, where appropriate, other polyols and additives known from polyol chemistry, the isocyanate number of the reaction mixture lies in the range of 15 to 59.81, and the product of the isocyanate functionality and the functionality of the polyol components is at least 6.15, as a coupling medium for transmitting acoustic waves from a sound source onto the body of the patient.

Abstract: The device for conditioning an organic ligament to be implanted, in particular a ligament as a cruciate ligament replacement, is equipped with a first and with a second receiving element for receiving and tensioning the ligament at two distanced locations, wherein the first receiving element is connected to means for the periodic, and with respect to the ligament, translatoric adjustment of the first receiving element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ball-and-socket joint connection, in particular for a holding arm system for holding surgical instruments, with a joint ball sitting in a seat of a joint casing and permitting rotation in several axes and with a ball-shaped joint socket which can be axially displaced to and from the joint ball in a cylindrical section of the joint casing. A magnet is provided which produces a magnetic force between the joint ball and the joint socket such that they are drawn to one another. An actuation element is provided for displacing the joint socket and with this the joint ball is fixable in the seat of the joint casing by way of retracting the joint socket, wherein the joint ball by way of the magnet force is pressed into the seat of the joint casing, and wherein the joint ball by displacing forwards the joint socket with the actuation element is separable from the seat.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutter for removing tissue, with a cutter head, with a cutter shank which carries the cutter head and to which the cutter head is connected in a rotationally fixed manner, and with a drive driving the cutter shank. For the adjustability of the effectiveness of the cutter with the removal of cartilaginous or bony tissue parts there is provided a first rotatable sleeve which comprises an inner bore which is arranged eccentrically to the middle axis of this sleeve, and a second stationary sleeve which is arranged in the inner bore of the first sleeve and which for the passage of the cutter shank comprises an inner bore which is arranged eccentrically to the middle axis of the second sleeve.

Abstract: An electronic endoscope with a picture sensor located at its distal end and with several illumination units (LEDs) integrated in the endoscope, for producing illumination light irradiated at the distal endoscope end. The illumination units are arranged as a linear and axial array of LEDs in a space, of an enveloping tube, connecting proximally to the picture sensor. To the LEDs there are allocated fiber-optics into which the light irradiated by the LEDs may be coupled. The fiber-optics run up to the distal endoscope end and here are grouped together to a bundle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a guide rod for tube shank instruments to be introduced into a body cavity which is characterised by at least two telescopic rod parts, whose ends which neighbor given the largest possible rod length, are releasably lockable with a positive or non-positive fit and whose extension movement is limited by an abutment.

Abstract: The instrument serves the application in particular of bone grafts in the space between two vertebrae and consists of a shank, of a handle and of a holder for the implant, which forms the distal instrument part. The holder is pivotably mounted relative to the shank and can be fixed in its position which in each case is reached by pivoting.

Abstract: A forceps serves in particular for excising myomas located intramurally in the uterus and comprises a forceps jaw having two branches which are pivotable about a common axis in a working plane for opening and closing the forceps jaw and which bear against one another with structured gripping surfaces with a closed, empty forceps jaw. The branches are each provided over a part of their length with a tooth-shaped back profile on their outer back sides lying opposite the gripping surfaces.

Abstract: A hysteroscope for carrying out endoscopic operations in the uterus by way of an auxiliary instrument, consists of an inner shank and an outer shank surrounding the inner shank whilst forming a longitudinal channel, of a first fitting for supplying rinsing fluid to be led through the inner shank into the uterus and of a second fitting for removing rinsing fluid from the uterus via the longitudinal channel. Furthermore there are provided a third fitting on which the auxiliary instrument is introducable into the hysteroscope and is further distally movable through a working channel, and deflection means with which the distal end region of the auxiliary instrument is elastically laterally deflectable.

Abstract: The electroacoustic transucer comprises a dome-shaped carrier on whose inner side are mounted piezoelctric elements and which furthermore is also provided with piezoelectric elements on its outer side. The piezoelectric elements on the inner and on the outer side are switched in separate groups and can be triggered such that the sound waves produced by them can be synchronized, by which means the power intensity in the focus can be increased.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device for tracking a target mark with a diagnosis apparatus, in particular an ultrasound therapy apparatus coupled to a therapy apparatus, in particular to an ultrasound therapy apparatus. A target mark control as a control unit separate from the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus is installed to acquire the relative position of the transmitter/receiver head to the sound source of the ultrasound therapy apparatus as well as different zoom regions of the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and/or a change of position of the represented ultrasound picture, and to track a target mark represented on a monitor so that this target mark always designates the position of the focus of the sound source.

Abstract: With this device the fluid is located in a container which can be set under pressure, into which two cannulas of differing lengths may be inserted. A short cannula, via a gas conduit and a release valve, is connectable to a pressurised gas source in order to impinge the container above the fluid level with pressurised gas, whilst the other longer cannula is connectable to a fluid conduit leading to the instrument and protrudes into the fluid located in the container. The fluid flow to the instrument is interruptable with a blocking element and the pressurised gas supply to the container is interruptable with the release valve. Such a device may be simply constructed and used when, according to the invention, the cannulas, the blocking element and a control valve are grouped together into a constructional unit on which there is located one connection for the gas conduit and a further connection for the fluid conduit.

Abstract: An endoscopic instrument for the therapy of the heart muscle forming channels in the heart muscle tissue by way of laser energy and including a shank tube and at least one instrumentation channel for a laser fiber disposed in axial direction within the shank tube as well as central optics parallel to the laser fiber for observing the locus of treatment. The distal end of the shank tube may be connected to a vacuum source and is designed such that the heart muscle can be restrained by partially suctioning the same against the shank end.

Abstract: An endoscope comprises a hollow shank, optic viewing means positioned in the hollow shank for observing a body cavity, and a separate adjustable instrument channel which is axially, slidably arranged in an internal guiding region of the hollow shank. The instrument channel has a flexible curvature section and a laterally running end section with an end portion that is pivotably and articulably mounted in a radial passage in the distal circumferential wall region of the hollow shank. Sliding the instrument channel axially in the hollow shank results in flexing of the curvature section and pivoting of the end portion, such that an auxiliary instrument provided in the instrument channel is laterally deflected when guided through the hollow shank.

Abstract: The diagnosis apparatus according to the invention for the picture providing recording of fluorescing biological tissue by way of an endoscope contains a stimulation light source which beams spectral components suitable for fluorescence stimulation into the tissue through the endoscope. The fluorescent light reflected by the tissue reaches through the endoscope optics into a head piece where it is split into a green, and spacially separated from this, a red spectral component and falls each on one half of a CCD solid body of a highly sensitive black and white camera.

Abstract: A medical instrument having an inner part which is releasably fastened in the instrument on a proximal end and at the distal end carries a tool which can be actuated by way of an actuation element which is adjustable axially and relative to the inner part and the tool. The actuation element is releasably lockable in a proximal-side, axially adjustable receiver which drives the actuation element at the same time.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the automatic identification of components of medical apparatus systems, in particular, components of endoscopy systems. There is provided a unit which is separate from at least one of the components (30a, 30b) to be identified, this unit includes a write-read head. This unit may for example be one of the system components such as a camera head (18) in a video endoscope system. Each component to be identified includes a writable and readable data carrier which stores data signals indicating component parameters. Contents of the data carrier can be read in by transmission of the data to the write-read head from the separate unit and may here be registered and where appropriate, activate control and/or regulation procedures.

Abstract: A medical instrument including a housing, a shank a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the shank being connected to the housing, an openable and closable two-part tool provided at the distal end of the shank, an actuating element that runs through the housing and the shank so as to be axially shiftable for actuating the tool, and an elastic buffer as overload protection whereby the buffer elastically deforms to buffer an axial force overload transmitted from the actuating element onto the shank. The buffer is formed as a shaped body of elastic material arranged between the shank and the housing so that during overloading the buffer is deformed by the shank which at the same time shifts axially proximally with respect to the housing.

Abstract: The endoscopic instrument is formed as a needle holder with ligature scissors. It comprises at its distal end a jaw-like tool and at its proximal end a handle, these being connected to one another by a common shank. At the distal tool end there is formed the ligature holder and the ligature scissors proximally neighboring thereto. Between these tool parts there is formed a projection limiting the free passage between the needle holder and the ligature scissors, this projection being dimensioned such that although the ligature may be guided through, the needle however cannot get into the region of the scissors.