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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4913132 | Myringotomy instrument A hand held myringotomy instrument comprises an otoscope and an attached laser beam generator section. The laser beam generator section comprises a portion for moving the laser beam generator of the section along the laser beam axis, in order to adjust th... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4911712 | Medical laser probe A probe is described for delivering CO2 radiation to a desired site. Such probe includes an n | 03/27/1990 |
| 4872458 | Thermotherapy apparatus Thermotherapy apparatus used for performing a thermotherapy for a diseased part of a tumor such as a cancer of a living body. A heating portion is arranged in a distal end portion at the body cavity side of a probe which can be inserted in the body cavity... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4869246 | Method for controllably embolyzing blood vessels A method and system for controllably gas embolyzing a portion of a blood vessel is disclosed. The method includes providing an obstruction to the flow of blood in a blood vessel and introducing sufficient gas, preferably carbon dioxide, into the blood ves... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4826431 | Medical laser handpiece A medical laser handpiece comprising a grip body, a semiconductor laser generator disposed in the grip body and an irradiation nozzle which is detachably cross-connected to the head of the grip body at an angle and includes a laser light transmitting mean... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4807596 | Guiding probe A guiding probe, in particular for an endoscope for surgical endoscopy with laser light, wherein the guiding probe comprises a flexible section which is resistant to high temperatures and substantially does not absorb the laser light used, and further inc... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4768858 | Hollow fiberoptic A fiberoptic includes a guide for light or other electromagnetic energy which has a single fiber core with a ring-shaped cross-section and defines an outer cylindrical surface and an inner cylindrical surface. A cylindrical central hollow channel extends ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4765330 | Method and apparatus for removal of plaque from blood vessels Plaque accumulation in the blood vessels of a patient is removed by a laser beam acting directly on the plaque. The laser beam is conducted to the plaque by a hollow tubular catheter which is sufficiently resilient and flexible so that it may be snaked th... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4747660 | Light transmitter A light transmitter, which transmits light from a light source through a light guide comprising an optical fiber flux and which includes an optical system provided with a light refracting plane and a cylindrical reflecting plane which are interposed betwe... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4735603 | Laser smoke evacuation system and method A laser smoke evacuation system and method for laser smoke removal from the site of laser laparoscopy in a patient cavity. The system includes a CO2 gas pump connected through a control valve, a pressure sensor, and a bacterial filter to a lapa... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4712537 | Apparatus for treating recurrent ear infections A method and apparatus for treating ear infections in which a straight linear path is established from an external position to a specific target site on the eardrum. Thereafter a laser beam is caused to be emitted along the established path to impinge upo... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4676231 | Laser probe This invention is a laser probe made to cure and extinguish within a short time surface-existing tumors generated in a wide range within a body cavity and having a substantially spherical hollow light diffusing part enclosing a light dispersing medium at ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4674497 | Medical laser device A medical laser device includes a device body and a laser probe connected to the body. In the device body are arranged a laser source for emitting laser beams and an air pump. The laser probe has an outer tube, a laser guide extending through the tube, an... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4658817 | Method and apparatus for transmyocardial revascularization using a laser A surgical carbon dioxide laser is disclosed which includes a handpiece for directing a laser beam to a desired location. Mounted on the forward end of the handpiece is a hollow needle precisely aligned along the laser path. This permits the laser to be u... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4648386 | Laser bronchoscope ventilator Bronchoscopy apparatus comprises a tubular bronchoscope instrument having a laser manipulator at its proximal or rear end. A gas passage element running along the length of the bronchoscope is connected via a control system to pressurized oxygen and a sou... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4638800 | Laser beam surgical system A laser beam surgical system provided with a cannula insertable into a body passage leading to a surgical site. The cannula includes a rotatable inner tube whose inlet section has two input ports, one being in line with the tube axis and being coupled to ... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4635632 | Quick release connector for a surgical device A quick release mechanism for detachably interconnecting a bronch tube with a laser micromanipulator. The bronch tube is provided with a channel aligned transversely to the tube axis and opening downwardly at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. The micr... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4622967 | Auricular instrument An auricular instrument (10) for the therapy of otitis media has a Q-switched laser (26) whose "giant pulse" output is especially suitable for forming a clean, round hole in a patient's tympanic membrane for draining the afflicted middle ear. The Q-switch... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4621635 | Method for treating hemorrhoids A method of treating external hemorrhoids comprises the preliminary and optional step of rubber band ligation of any associated internal hemorrhoidal tissue, followed by a laser beam-created incision around the perimeter of the base of the external portio... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4604992 | Endoscope system An endoscope system includes a CCD camera of the line transfer type located at and within the distal end of an endoscope. The camera produces and supplies a video output to a television monitor, thus enabling medical treatment with laser radiation while t... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4597380 | Endoscopic attachment to a surgical laser An endoscopic attachment to a surgical laser comprises a hollow endoscopic tube adapted to be coupled at its rear end to the surgical laser, a coupling device including a pivotable reflector in the path of the laser beam transmitted through the endoscopic... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4583539 | Laser surgical system A laser surgical instrument uses a CO2 laser source and an articulated arm structure to maintain single mode transmission of a 10.6 μm beam to probe. In one configuration, high power is maintained for photo-transection and/or photocauterizatio... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4559942 | Method utilizing a laser for eye surgery Surgical apparatus including laser, probe apparatus defining a radiation inlet and a radiation outlet, the radiation inlet being coupled in radiation receiving relationship to the laser, and apparatus for injecting a precisely controllable volume of air a... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4556057 | Cancer diagnosis device utilizing laser beam pulses Cancer diagnosis device contains an endoscope comprising a light pipe used to transmit light beams from respective light sources and an image guide used to observe the flesh of the organism during both diagnosis and treatment. The tip of the endoscope fac... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4313431 | Endoscopic apparatus with a laser light conductor The present endoscopic apparatus with a laser light conductor is used for irradiating bladder tumors in man with a laser light beam. For this purpose a jacketed light conducting fiber is arranged in parallel to an optical viewing device. A rigid bushing i... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4266548 | Apparatus for and method of utilizing energy to excise pathological tissue Pathological tissue is excised with a beam from a laser that is coupled through a flexible, optical wave guide to a collimator that reduces the beam cross sectional area by variable, controlled amounts. A transparent bore or a graphite cannula couples the... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4211229 | Laser endoscope An endoscope having a sheath containing both a telescope and a laser lens system with attachments for both ranging and distancing the laser focal point and for reducing the diameter of laser beam source.... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4141362 | Laser endoscope Endoscope equipped both with an observation optic and a Laser beam, including a deflectable reflector enabling the laser beam to scan the body tissue and a focus enabling the laser beam focal plane to be varied depth-wise in the body tissue.... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4072147 | Radiation endoscope A radiation endoscope is described wherein a laser or other radiation source is employed for therapeutic purposes. Radiation energy may be accurately directed at a target in a body cavity with the use of a marking spot whose light energy is passed along a... | 02/07/1978 |
| 3982541 | Eye surgical instrument Method and apparatus are disclosed for surgically removing surface portions of an eye such as cataract tissue. The eye surface portions to be removed are vaporized by a carbon dioxide laser beam. Smoke and vaporized portions are withdrawn by a vacuum pump... | 09/28/1976 |
