Patent ID: 8613699

Claim:
A device for the sterile sheathing of a sterilization-sensitive operating part, which can be connected to a medical instrument for a surgical intervention, said device comprising a handling element, having a distal end and a proximal end, comprising a bundled sterile hose having a distal end and a proximal end, the proximal end of said sterile hose being connected to said distal end of said handling element, and an opening, through which said sterilization-sensitive operating part can be inserted into said sterile hose from proximal to distal such, that said sterilization-sensitive operating part can thereby be sheathed with said sterile hose, a medical instrument having a distal end and a proximal end, connected fixedly at said proximal end to said distal end of said sterile hose, and a separate transfer station, wherein said sterilization-sensitive operating part is accommodated in said transfer station, said sterilization-sensitive operating part containing sterilization-sensitive electronic components, whereby said handling element can be releasably connected with its proximal end to said transfer station such that said proximal end of said medical instrument and a distal end of said sterilization-sensitive operating part can be connected to one another and whereby this assembly can be withdrawn from said transfer station, whereby said sterilization-sensitive operating part is automatically sheathed with said sterile hose when being withdrawn from the transfer station in a distal direction through said opening of said handling element.