Stapler Reload
Staple Cartridge · Reload Cartridge · Linear Stapler Reload · GIA Reload · Endo Stapler Reload · Linear Cutter Reload
A single-use plastic cartridge filled with rows of staples that clicks into the jaw of a linear or linear cutting stapler. Reloads are color coded by staple height, and cutting reloads carry a knife track down the middle.
On the table
What it does, the lengths it comes in and what experienced techs know about it.
What it’s for
Lets one stapler fire several times in a case. Each firing places rows of staples and, with a cutting stapler, divides the tissue between them. Pulled for bowel, lung, vessel and stomach resectionrih-SEK-shunSurgery to remove part of an organ or tissue.re- back, againsect to cut-ion processFull entry and anastomosisuh-nas-tuh-MOH-sisA connection between two tube-shaped structures, such as two ends of bowel or two blood vessels, made by surgery or found naturally.Full entry , open or 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 and robotic. The surgeon picks the color for the tissue thickness.
Lengths and variants
Lengths match the stapler (our setups call for 45, 60 and 75 mm). Example, Ethicon ECHELON GST reloads (45 and 60 mm): White, thin tissue 1.0 to 2.0 mm, closed staple height 1.0 mm; Blue, regular 1.5 to 2.4 mm, 1.5 mm; Gold, regular/thick 1.8 to 3.0 mm, 1.8 mm; Green, thick 2.0 to 3.3 mm, 2.0 mm; Black, very thick 2.3 to 4.0 mm, 2.3 mm. Vascular cartridges are also made (our setups list 45 and 60 mm vascular reloads).
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- Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 11 (Surgical Instruments), p. 199
- Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 22 (General Surgery), p. 496
- jnjmedtech.com
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