Abstract: An endoscopic instrument system which includes a handle portion with a scissors grip, a shaft extending from the scissors grip and shaped to extend through a cannula, and a plurality of disposable end tools, each mountable on and removable from the end of the shaft by hand without tools and actuatable by the scissors handle. In a preferred embodiment, the scissors handle actuates a rod extending through the shaft which is connected to the end tool. The end tool includes a pair of jaws pivotally mounted on the support and connected to a reciprocating stub shaft by links. The stub shaft is connected to the actuating rod of the handle portion so that movement of the scissors handle causes the jaws to pivot relative to each other. The end tool may take the form of a scissor, grasper, biopsy or dissector, depending upon the specific shape of the jaws.

Abstract: An endoscopic instrument system which includes a handle portion with a scissors grip, a shaft extending from the scissors grip and shaped to extend through a cannula, and a plurality of disposable end tools, each mountable on the end of the shaft and actuatable by the scissors handle. In a preferred embodiment, the scissors handle actuates a rod extending through the shaft which is connected to the end tool. The end tool includes a pair of jaws pivotally mounted on the support and connected to a reciprocating stub shaft by links. The stub shaft is connected to the actuating rod of the handle portion so that movement of the scissors handle causes the jaws to pivot relative to each other. The end tool may take the form of a scissor, grasper, biopsy or dissector, depending upon the specific shape of the jaws.

Abstract: A verres needle system and method having a tube with an open distal end shaped for insertion through tissue into a body cavity, and a obturator slidably disposed within the tube and being resiliently biased to protrude from the distal end of the tube, and a negative pressure sensor positioned to detect negative pressure at a proximal end of the needle. The negative pressure sensor is connected to a circuit that the sensor closes a switch to eliminate a light when the pressure within the tube in obturator reaches a predetermined value, which indicates that the tip of the needle and obturator are positioned within a body cavity as supposed to body tissue or an organ. The method of utilizing the needle system is to insert the needle into the body cavity while at the same time pulling the tissues surrounding the body cavity away from the cavity to create the negative pressure, which is detected by the pressure sensor and circuit when the tip is properly positioned within the cavity.

Abstract: An endoscopic instrument system which includes a handle portion with a scissors grip, a shaft extending from the scissors grip and shaped to extend through a cannula, and a plurality of disposable end tools, each mountable on the end of the shaft and actuatable by the scissors handle. In a preferred embodiment, the scissors handle actuates a rod extending through the shaft which is connected to the end tool. The end tool includes a pair of jaws pivotally mounted on the support and connected to a reciprocating stub shaft by links. The stub shaft is connected to the actuating rod of the handle portion so that movement of the scissors handle causes the jaws to pivot relative to each other. The end tool may take the form of a scissor, grasper, biopsy or dissector, depending upon the specific shape of the jaws.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an improved means for assuring the proper alignment of the leader on the end of a film strip for a roll of film disposed in a cartridge, whereby, when the cartridge is placed in a viewing or reproducing machine, the end of the strip will be properly picked up and threaded into the machine, wherein the strip has a friction portion that engages with the exit or entrance throat of the cartridge and an indicator on the strip to show when the film is pulled out to the proper position for threading into a machine.