Design of a Steerable Laparoscopic Aspirator-Irrigator: FlowFlex

Laparoscopy is a type of minimally invasive surgery in which instruments with long, slender shafts between handle and end effector are inserted through small incisions in the abdominal wall. A laparoscopic aspirator-irrigator (LAI) has a hollow shaft used to evacuate undesirable substances using a vacuum pressure, rinse tissue using a stream of...

Evaluation of an improved suspension system concept for surgical luminaires

Surgeons have indicated ergonomic problems with the surgical luminaire, which have been observed to occur during repositioning. The possibility of singularity, within the movement space of the translational subsystem of the current double-arm suspension systems, is confirmed to be the cause of these problems. In this study, a redesign of the...

The Haermonic Flush. Designing the next Pericardial Flushing Device

The goal of this graduation project was to design the next pericardial flushing device. The whole “Post Pericardial Flushing project (PPF)” was initiated by Dave Koolbergen and Johan Manshanden as a clinical study to introduce a new technique to actively flush the pericardial section of the human body after open heart surgery. The key...