Patent ID: 6412493
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method of vaginal endoscopic surgical blockage to an innervation of a patient's presacral nerve plexus, the method comprising the steps of:(a) placing a patient in one of a lithotomy position or a knee-chest position; (b) administering anesthesia to the patient; (c) sterilizing the operative field; (d) lifting the patient's cervix to expose the patient's post fornix; (d) inserting an operative vaginal endoscope through the post fornix to connective tissue beneath the patient's uterorectal pouch without penetrating the uterorectal pouch; (e) advancing the operative vaginal endoscope to locate the innervation of the patient's presacral nerve plexus; (f) using a surgical tool of the operative vaginal endoscope to intervene in the innervation of the nerve plexus located in step (e); and, (g) removing the operative vaginal endoscope and treating vaginal bleeding of the patient.