Apparatus for expanding body tissue
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Aug 29, 2000
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Apr 16, 1997
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Jan 26, 1996
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A surgical apparatus for manipulating body tissue including a hollow needle, a bulb connected to the needle for aspirating air through an end of the needle, a flexible guide wire extending through the needle, a fitting on one end of the guide wire for permitting the guide wire to be reciprocated with the same hand that holds the instrument, from a retracted position substantially within the needle, to an extended position in which a substantial length of the guide wire extends beyond an end of the needle, an expandable dilator attached to the dilation tip for dilating a tracheal wall when the dilator is inflated, and a tracheostomy tube detachably mounted with respect to the dilator for placement into a lumen of a trachea.
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