Lavage handpiece
CA 1206050 A · Owner: Bristol-Myers Company · Inventors: Atkinson, Robert W.; Johnson, Donald W.; Elliott, Joseph W.
Overview
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A hand-held instrument which provides for directing irrigating fluid to a surgical site through an irrigation passage and which may also, provide for auction of fluid and debris away from the surgical site through an alternate passage. The passages are typically tubing channel which may be attached to various types of tips which are introduced at the surgical site. The handpiece instrument, including the tubing channels may be, totally disposable, or the handpiece may be adapted to allow the external housing to be reusable with only the tubing channels being disposable. Both the suction and irrigation tubing channels may be assembled internally in the hsndpiece housing, with both suction …
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- Granted June 17, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 17, 2003.
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