Patent ID: 6066138
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
A medical instrument, comprising:(a) a handle;(b) a searing cautery for burning a lens capsule of an eye at the periphery of a portion of said capsule to be removed during surgery, said searing cautery including a retractable-extendible searing cautery portion being retractable into and extendible from said handle, so as to permit insertion of said searing cautery portion through a small incision formed in the eye when retracted and thereafter to correspond to a peripheral extent of said portion of said capsule to be removed when extended;(c) a mechanism for retracting and extending said searing cautery portion, said mechanism being engaged by said handle; and(d) an arrangement for connecting said searing cautery with an electrical apparatus for heating said searing cautery portion, whereby said peripheral extent of said capsule portion to be removed is searable by said searing cautery portion when extended and heated.