| 20090131958 | TWO-PART CLAMPING DEVICE - A surgical clamping device for hollow anatomical structures such as, essentially, blood vessels, but also tracheas, intestines, etc. This device comprises three initially independent parts, namely two jaws, each jaw being formed of an elongate member having distal and proximal ends, and a mandrel that can be slipped over the proximal ends of the two jaws and that is able to bring the axes of the two jaws closer together, thus pinching an anatomical structure. The mandrel comprises a distal, pinching part and a proximal, handling part, these two parts being joined together by a locking part, the jaws being bendable at the level of the locking part when the clamp is activated, the distal, pinching part of the mandrel remaining in place by friction on the jaws when it is unlocked from the proximal, handling part. This surgical clamping device applies more particularly to the clamping of the aorta. | 05-21-2009 |
