METHOD OF REPROCESSING A SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

A method of disassembling a surgical instrument for reprocessing, includes accessing an interior housing of a surgical instrument to expose a slider assembly, an elongated outer shaft including a drive plate and knife assembly extending therethrough, and a torsion spring of the surgical instrument....

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Hauptverfasser:	Stamm, Stephen J, Olson, Jessica E. C, Sawyer, Alyssa M, Saha, Subhadeep, Soni, Purvishkumar H
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	COMBINED OPERATIONS DIAGNOSIS HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE IDENTIFICATION MACHINE TOOLS MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OTHER WORKING OF METAL PERFORMING OPERATIONS SURGERY TRANSPORTING UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS
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Zusammenfassung:	A method of disassembling a surgical instrument for reprocessing, includes accessing an interior housing of a surgical instrument to expose a slider assembly, an elongated outer shaft including a drive plate and knife assembly extending therethrough, and a torsion spring of the surgical instrument. The method further includes grasping an upper leg of the torsion spring to disengage the upper leg from a slot defined within the drive plate, disengaging the drive plate from the slider assembly, and removing the torsion spring from the slider assembly.