Trocar
date: label: date made
content: about 1994
name: label: inventor
content: Yoon, InBae
label: maker
content: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: A trocar is used to withdraw fluid from a body cavity. This safety trocar prevented internal injury to the patient by concealing the sharp end of the instrument. When the trocar was inserted into the abdominal cavity, an inner sleeve is pressed forward covering the trocar point and shielding interior anatomical structures from being punctured.
label: Description
content: In Bae Yoon (1936–2014), a prolific inventor and physician who specialized in gynecologic surgery, was born in South Korea and spent much of his career in the United States. He held 226 U.S. patents and 22 international patents.
label: Description
content: Ref: InBae Yoon, “Safety Puncturing Instrument and Method,” U.S. Patent 4,535,773 (Aug. 20, 1985).
label: Description
content: Kyung Joo Yoon, "The Narrow Path that I have Trod," a paper presented and published by the Severance Alumni Association News of Yonsei University in South Korea.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Invention
label: Subject
content: Disposable medical instruments
label: Subject
content: Surgical instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Kyung Joo Yoon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0024.17
label: accession number
content: 2017.0024
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0024.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trocar, safety
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (handle and sheath material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (trocar material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 5.3 cm x 19 cm; 1 31/32 in x 2 3/32 in x 7 15/32 in