Patent ID: 8083739

Claim:
An electrosurgical device for clamping and coagulating tissue between a pair of jaw assemblies, the jaw assemblies disassembleable outside of a patient and reassembleable within a patient, the electrosurgical device comprising: a handle assembly having a jaw actuator; a first jaw assembly extending longitudinally from the handle and having a first pole electrode at a first angle to the longitudinal axis; and a second jaw assembly having a second pole electrode and operably disassemblable and reassembleable with the first jaw assembly and the handle assembly, wherein when the second jaw assembly is operably assembled with the first jaw assembly and the handle assembly, the second pole electrode is about parallel to the first pole electrode and the second jaw assembly is operably coupled to the handle assembly such that actuation of the jaw actuator moves the second pole electrode to a clamped position with the first pole electrode and deactuation of the jaw actuator moves the second pole electrode to an unclamped position with the first pole electrode.