Patent ID: 8858567
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A surgical retrieval apparatus comprising: a plurality of radially oriented shaped members extending substantially equidistantly spaced around an axis; each of said shaped members extending from a first end to a respective second end, and each having a shape; means to maintain said plurality of shaped members in a fixed engagement around said axis; said shape of said members in said fixed engagement, defining a catch basket said catch basket having a basket shape; a plurality of gaps formed in between said plurality of radially oriented shaped members; a mouth to said catch basket defined by an aperture formed of a first pair of said shaped members in said fixed engagement and opposite each other, both of said first pair substantially located in the same first plane; said shape of said first pair of said shaped members thereby defining a mouth shape and a mouth area; a first end of said catch basket at an intersection of all said first ends of said shaped members, in an engagement to a distal end of a single control wire translatably engaged within a single conduit; said catch basket collapsible to a collapsed position having said intersection and at least a portion of said catch basket located inside said conduit, when said distal end of said control wire translates within said conduit; said catch basket deployable to a deployed position when said intersection, engaged to said distal end of said control wire, translates outside of said conduit; and said catch basket assuming said basket shape, when in said deployed position, whereby said gaps provide substantially unimpeded viewing for a camera therethrough wherein communicated images from said camera can be employed to guide said catch basket to capture a target component through said mouth and into said catch basket whereupon said catch basket can be moved to said collapsed position to capture said target component for removal.