Patent ID: 8961534
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A medical snare comprising: a pusher coupled to a front of a movable handle that moves along a cylindrical body in a forward and backward direction; an auxiliary pusher having engagement faces on an outer circumference and having a back end rotatably coupled to the front end of the pusher of the movable handle; a wire having a loop formed at a front end and a back end fixedly connected to a front end of the auxiliary pusher along an interior of a tube coupled to the front of the cylindrical body; a wheel having an engagement hole in its hub formed to accept the engagement faces of the auxiliary pusher and rotatably installed on the wire at a front side of the body, wherein when the movable handle moves forward, the auxiliary pusher slidably passes into the engagement hole of the wheel's hub so that the engagement faces engage the engagement hole of the wheel's hub thereby enabling the auxiliary pusher and the wire to rotate so that a direction of the wire loop can align with tissue to be inserted into the wire loop and when the movable handle moves backward, the tissue that was inserted into the wire loop is cut, the auxiliary pusher disengages from the wheel hub thus enabling the wheel to rotate about the wire without changing the direction of the wire loop.