Endo clip applier
Hemoclip Applier · Clip Applier
laparoscopiclap-uh-roh-SKOP-ikDone through a few small cuts in the abdomen with a thin camera and long instruments, instead of one large opening.lapar/o abdomen-scopic viewingFull entry clip applier with a long shaft, jaws that close a clip across a structure, and a squeeze handle. Disposable types come preloaded with many titanium clips; reusable types, like the one shown, take one clip at a time from a cartridge.
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- Clamping & Occluding
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What it’s for
Provides rapid hemostasishee-moh-STAY-sisThe stopping of bleeding, either by the body's own clotting process or by medical or surgical methods.hem/o blood-stasis stopping, standing stillFull entry by applying clips to vessels or tubular structures during endoscopicen-doh-SKOP-ikDone with an endoscope, a thin tube with a light and camera passed into the body.endo- within-scopic viewingFull entry procedures.
Lengths and variants
Disposable appliers come in shafts about 5-10 mm and several lengths. Reusable appliers come for small, medium and medium-large clips, rotating or fixed; some fit a 5.5 mm trocarTROH-karA sharp or bladed instrument inside a tube (cannula), used to pierce a body wall and leave the tube in place as a port.Full entry (Millennium).
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4 sources
- Nemitz R. Surgical Instrumentation: An Interactive Approach. 3rd ed. Chapter 4 (Laparoscopic instruments), p. 141
- Rothrock JC. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery. 17th ed. Chapter 12 (Surgery of the Biliary Tract, Pancreas, Liver, and Spleen), p. 352
- Millennium. Hemostatic Clip Appliers. pdf p. 2
- Teleflex. Weck Ligation Solutions Catalog. p. 19
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