Patent ID: 8137318

Claim:
Surgical protection device for a surgical sealing element of a surgical sealing system comprising a trocar, a surgical sealing element having an insertion opening adapted to be widened, said protection device comprising: a base member adapted to be arranged on the trocar or on a part of the trocar, the base member being in a ring shape or essentially in a ring shape and defining an opening, and several protection elements arranged in a circumferential direction on said base member and pointing parallel or towards a longitudinal axis of the protection device, said protection elements each having a free end pointing essentially in a distal direction, wherein: at least some of the protection elements each have a retaining element on an outer side at the free end or in an area of the free end for engagement with an elastic sealing element; the retaining elements have a shape making it possible for them to become caught in the sealing element; each of the retaining elements have a tip pointing away from the corresponding protection element; and the protection elements bearing retaining elements are longer than the protection elements without retaining elements.