In an illustrative embodiment, a surgical system is provided for removing adipose buildup from epidural space of a patient spine including a surgical apparatus including a handle portion and a catheter assembly having a steerable distal tip configured for navigating epidural space of the spine; an endoscopic camera system configured to capture images from the epidural space and to identify a tissue of interest; and a vacuum source in communication with the catheter assembly of the surgical apparatus and configured to provide a negative pressure through a lumen of the catheter assembly to the tissue of interest; a discharge tank configured to capture suctioned tissue from the catheter assembly; and where the surgical apparatus further includes at least one fiber optic cable in communication with the endoscopic camera system.

Disclosed herein a liposuction cannula that comprises a tube with a front end at which there is provided at least one suction opening, and with a back end intended to be connected to a source of vacuum; in the tube there being defined at least one longitudinal flow conduit for the aspirated material; and an imaging apparatus capable of supplying first signals or data allowing the generation of a visual representation of the environment in close proximity to the front end of the tube of the cannula down to a first depth or distance, and second signals or data allowing the generation of a visual representation of the environment around the front end of the tube of the cannula down to a second depth or distance, greater than the said first depth or distance.

A medical device for treatment for overweight or obesity is presented. The medical device is attached or implanted in patient's target body organs, wherein in each one of the device attachments, or daily in the case of long continuous attachment, the device removes up to 100 grams of energy containing materials from the body. The medical device optionally contains needles or alternatively contains crawling worm-like arm. The energy containing materials may be fat cells, fatty acid molecules driven out from the fat cells or lipids or carbohydrates molecules such as glucose from the blood stream.

A minimally invasive fat cell removal system and method is provided using a numbing component, a laser component, and a NIL component. A cannula and fiber of the laser component are insertable into a body of a patient at a biopsy punch to liquefy a fat cell via a tumescent fluid and/or a laser. A NIL cannula of the NIL component is insertable into the body to remove the fat cell via suction and/or nutation. An anesthetic device of the numbing component may reduce sensation of the body where the cannula is insertable. The fat cell may be harvested and implanted at another location of the body.

The invention relates to combined liposuction methods and can be used in surgical interventions to remove local fat deposits in the lower third of the face and neck. The method includes a preoperative examination of the patient when one or more areas of the lower third of the face and neck of the patient are designated as liposuction areas constituting the operative field. The contour boundaries of the operative field and at least one operative access point are determined. Uniform infiltration anesthesia of the adipose tissue to be removed in the liposuction areas is performed. From a Nd:YAG laser radiation source with a wavelength of 1064 nm, a Nd:YAG laser radiation with a wavelength of 1064 nm in a pulsed mode with a frequency of 50 Hz, with a pulse duration of 300 s and a power of the predetermined value is supplied directly to the adipose tissue to be removed.

A minimally invasive fat cell removal system and method is provided using a numbing component, a laser component, and a NIL component. A cannula and fiber of the laser component are insertable into a body of a patient at a biopsy punch to liquefy a fat cell via a tumescent fluid and/or a laser. A NIL cannula of the NIL component is insertable into the body to remove the fat cell via suction and/or nutation. An anesthetic device of the numbing component may reduce sensation of the body where the cannula is insertable. The fat cell may be harvested and implanted at another location of the body.

A minimally invasive body sculpting system and method is provided using a numbing component, a helium plasma component, and an NIL component. An NIL cannula of the NIL component is insertable into the body to remove the fat cell via nutational movement thereof and suction there through. Skin tightening is achieved through the subcutaneous exposure of the skin to helium plasma.

The invention relates to combined liposuction methods and can be used in surgical interventions to remove local fat deposits in the lower third of the face and neck. The method includes a preoperative examination of the patient when one or more areas of the lower third of the face and neck of the patient are designated as liposuction areas constituting the operative field. The contour boundaries of the operative field and at least one operative access point are determined. Uniform infiltration anesthesia of the adipose tissue to be removed in the liposuction areas is performed. From a Nd:YAG laser radiation source with a wavelength of 1064 nm, a Nd:YAG laser radiation with a wavelength of 1064 nm in a pulsed mode with a frequency of 50 Hz, with a pulse duration of 300 s and a power of the predetermined value is supplied directly to the adipose tissue to be removed.

An ultrasonic device for an ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty is provided. The ultrasonic device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a handpiece; an ultrasonic driving unit provided inside the handpiece; a probe including one end portion connected to the ultrasonic driving unit inside the handpiece and configured to extend outward of the handpiece from the one end portion; and a protection unit formed to extend along a longitudinal direction of the probe and to surround an outer circumferential surface of the probe. A heat-insulation member is provided in at least a portion of an inner circumferential surface of the protection unit.

Provided is a device for suctioning bodily fluids and for supplying a fluid substance to a human animal body, which device comprises a drive unit having a drive a pump head which is drivable by the drive and a connecting part which is releasably connectable to the drive unit and has a tube guide. The tube guide is realized in such a manner for receiving a tube that the tube, in combination with the pump head, forms a peristaltic pump by way of which the fluid substance is conveyable through the tube to the human or animal body. The pump head is incorporated in the connecting part, and the drive unit comprises a coupling element which is connected to the drive in order to couple the pump head to the drive.