Patent ID: 8679113

Claim:
A resecting device comprising: a. a handle having an aperture formed therein, wherein said aperture is bound on each side by a portion of said handle, wherein a jaw actuator is positioned in said aperture and slidably engaged with said handle and mechanically attached to a biasing mechanism communicating a biasing force to said jaw actuator, and wherein said aperture and said jaw actuator are configured such that a user may operate said jaw actuator via squeezing said jaw actuator by positioning a portion of a hand of said user in said aperture; b. a shaft affixed to said handle at a first end, said shaft having a second end engaged with a first jaw member and a second jaw member, said first and second jaw members each having a tissue contact area, wherein said tissue contact area of said second jaw member is oriented to face said tissue contact area of said first jaw member, wherein said first and second jaw members are mechanically engaged with said shaft so that said first and second jaw members cooperate to form a set of jaws, wherein said tissue contact area of said first jaw member is biased away from said tissue contact area of said second jaw member via said biasing mechanism, and wherein the distance between said tissue contact area of said first jaw member and said tissue contact area of said second jaw member is actuated by the position of said jaw actuator, and c. a source of electrosurgical energy adapted to connect to said first and second jaw members such that said tissue contact areas of said first and second jaw members are capable of conducting energy through tissues held therebetween.