Abstract: An apparatus for injecting a radiopaque dye into an artery of a patient during intraoperative arteriography, where the plunger of a syringe containing the injectate is driven by a separate but connected hydraulic sub-system operated by a surgeon who is at a location that is remote and safe from the radiation, and where the hydraulic sub-system provides for the surgeon, the feel and control of a conventional syringe operated manually in the immediate vicinity of the patient.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 1979
Date of Patent:
February 17, 1981
Assignee:
Dardik Surgical Associates, P.A.
Inventors:
Herbert Dardik, Michael Smith, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim, Irving I. Dardik