MEDICAL DEVICE FOR EXPLORING AND OPERATING ON THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY AND THE PELVIC CAVITY

摘要

The MEDICAL DEVICE's main aim it to diagnose with high precision whether a patient suffers an inflammation of the appendix, appendicitis, or any other abdominal pathology before taking the decision of surgical intervention. It can likewise be used for surgical intervention. Both applications have several advantages like the conditions or the environment in which the device can be used, since it does not require operating rooms, highly specialized staff and general anesthesia. Its use as a therapeutic instrument takes place in an operating room, with general anesthesia, but it does not require highly specialized staff. The MEDICAL DEVICE is a greatly simpler and more economic instrument than known medical instruments; it can be easily used after a short training. This device has a trocar with a hollow tip in order to allow the passage of a miniature camera. The trocar has been modified and has an innovative design; it has a source of light and a miniature camera on its tip, which transmits images to a LCD screen. It has two or more lateral working channels so that surgical material can be introduced in case the removal of the appendix or other similarly sized structures must take place. The camera is connected to a cable, which at its turn is connected to a LCD screen, giving the surgeon the impression he or she is looking into the patient's abdominal cavity through a window.;During the diagnosis stage, the device will improve the conventional peritoneal pumping which still takes place in many ERs.;The MEDICAL DEVICE will furthermore minimize the number of exams required for the diagnosis, the time required to adopt a therapeutic strategy, the pain and the patient's discomfort during the diagnosis process, the number of wrong diagnosis, the cost of the diagnosis, both in physical resources and in staff, the documentation related to the process and the time patients remain in observation in order to be diagnosed. It will likewise maximize the intervention of specialists during the diagnosis process and the "visibility" of the abdominal cavity obtained through diagnostic exams.