An articulating clamp for use during surgical procedures. An articulating surgical clamp for temporarily holding, clamping, and positioning patient tissue, for example, a vascular clamp for occluding a vessel. The articulating surgical clamp facilitates adjustment of the shape of the jaws of the clamp, for example, to improve vessel occlusion during surgical procedures. A method of temporarily occluding a blood vessel includes providing an articulating clamp as described herein, configuring the shape of the jaws of the clamp, and positioning the clamp to occlude a blood vessel.

The dual bone forceps may be considered tandem locking forceps wherein the forceps are coupled to each other so that the surgeon may use one for clamping the bone graft plate adjacent the graft site while clamping the other forceps to a supporting bone structure above, below, or lateral to the graft site during the procedure. The dual bone forceps includes a bone graft plate clamping forceps having clamping jaws at the anterior end and flat handles terminating in locking jaws at the posterior end. The dual bone forceps also includes an anchoring forceps having an elongate hook blade and a shortened anvil blade at the anterior end and locking handles at the posterior end. A linking bar extends non-coplanar from the shortened anvil blade to the pivot of the bone graft plate clamping forceps to maintain the two forceps linked to each other, but spaced apart in different planes.

A surgical clamp jaw is disclosed, having an inner profile and a deflection control profile opposite the inner profile. In one embodiment, the inner profile has a first substantially concave profile in an unclamped position and a second substantially flat profile in a clamped position. In one embodiment, the deflection control profile has one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces, at least one set of which is not contacting each other when the inner profile is in the unclamped position and which is contacting each other when the inner profile is in the clamped position. In one embodiment, the surgical clamp jaw defines one or more flexion assistance voids, wherein at least one of the one or more flexion assistance voids is in contact with a gap between one of the one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces.

Systems and methods for operating an end effector include an end effector for grasping a material, a drive system coupled to the end effector, a user interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to actuate the drive system to clamp the material using the end effector and in response to detecting successful clamping of the material, display a timer on the user interface. The timer provides an indication of when conditions will be safe to proceed with stapling of the material clamped by the end effector.

The present disclosure is directed to a medical instrument. The medical instrument may include a delivery device and a retraction mechanism including a target tissue anchor and a first stabilizing anchor, wherein the target tissue anchor attaches to target tissue and connects to the delivery device.

A Surgical forceps device comprising a pair of shanks and a clamping jaw portion, the clamping jaw surfaces set at an angle that produces a desired angular position for grasping a bendable osteochondral allograft.

The present disclosure is directed to a medical instrument. The medical instrument may include a delivery device and a retraction mechanism including a target tissue anchor and a first stabilizing anchor, wherein the target tissue anchor attaches to target tissue and connects to the delivery device.

A device for retaining a medical instrument includes a main body extending along a curved longitudinal axis. The main body defines a channel extending along the curved longitudinal axis. A first slot of the main body extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the curved longitudinal axis. A clamp member is coupled to a hinge protrusion of the main body and movable between an open and a closed configuration wherein, in the closed configuration, the clamp member encloses a portion of the first slot. A mechanical stop is coupled to the channel of the main body and configured to be moved between (i) a stationary configuration wherein the mechanical stop is fixed at a first point in the channel, and (ii) an adjustable configuration wherein the mechanical stop is movable to a second point along the channel of the main body.

A surgical clamp jaw is disclosed, having an inner profile and a deflection control profile opposite the inner profile. In one embodiment, the inner profile has a first substantially concave profile in an unclamped position and a second substantially flat profile in a clamped position. In one embodiment, the deflection control profile has one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces, at least one set of which is not contacting each other when the inner profile is in the unclamped position and which is contacting each other when the inner profile is in the clamped position. In one embodiment, the surgical clamp jaw defines one or more flexion assistance voids, wherein at least one of the one or more flexion assistance voids is in contact with a gap between one of the one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces.

A method for detecting a three-dimensional force of a fiber-integrated monolithic clamp guided by metal additive manufacturing, including: pre-preparing a three-dimensional force sensor, including a clamp head, an elastomer, and a transmission component; three groups of etched stepped reduced-diameter fiber gratings are provided on the elastomer; constructing, when the clamp head of the three-dimensional force sensor clamps the tissues, a mechanical model of the elastomer, establishing a relationship between central wavelength drift amounts of the etched stepped reduced-diameter fiber gratings and a temperature as well as the three-dimensional force, and deriving a force and temperature sensitivity matrix; decoupling central wavelength values of the three groups of etched stepped reduced-diameter fiber gratings to measure the three-dimensional force and the temperature; using a long short-term memory neural network to train network parameters; and outputting types of the tissues clamped by the clamp in a classified manner through a random forest algorithm.