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The federal court found that legal protection and redress in cases such as Arar's should be determined by the US congress and not the courts.
"Once congress has performed this task, then the courts in a proper case will be able to review the statute and provide judicial oversight," the ruling said.
But Judge Guido Calabresi, who voted in favour of Arar being able to sue, wrote: "I believe that when the history of this distinguished court is written, today's majority decision will be viewed with dismay."Arar said in a statement that the ruling proves "the court system in the United States has become more or less a tool that the executive branch can easily manipulate through unfounded allegations and fear-mongering."
The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented Arar, did not say whether it would appeal against the ruling to the US supreme court.
When Arar filed his lawsuit against US officials in 2004 it marked the occasion where an individual challenged the US government's policy of "extraordinary rendition" - a process where suspects are sent to a third country where there are no restictions on the use of torture during interrogation.
"It's the court's role to uphold the law and the law prohibits torture and provides for redress," Maria LaHood, an attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said.
"Torture is universally agreed to be illegal and unconstitutional."
The Canadian government formally apologised to Arar in 2007 and paid him a $9.8m settlement.
Condoleezza Rice, a former US secretary of state, admitted that the US made mistakes in the handling of Arar's case but she did not apologise.
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Now that we've made the metaphorical turn into the unofficial start of summer, business travelers can concentrate on a growing problem: the rising cost of being on the road.
Estimates vary, of course, but the upward creep of airfares, hotel rates and car-rental charges may be as high as 5 percent so far this year. Your experience may vary, too—travel prices are rising much faster in places like New York and San Francisco than in smaller, Midwest and Southern destinations—but very few travelers I speak to report that their costs are going down. And after several years of relative stability (if nothing else, Great Recessions tend to keep a lid on travel costs), even smaller price bumps are noticeable.
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The most outraged mail I receive from business travelers these days is after they've been quoted a triple-digit daily rate from a car-rental firm at a big-city airport. One example: the flier asked to pay $145 (plus taxes) for a day's use of a mid-size vehicle at Detroit/Metro Airport.
Rental costs are rising, but only a business traveler who's forgotten his or her corporate or other discount codes is being quoted such stratospheric rates. In a dozen recent test rentals, I found that daily rates can vary by as much as 65 percent based on whether I entered an appropriate discount code. So-called "open" or full-retail rates for rentals has always been inflated to make room for the discounts that car firms negotiate with corporations, affinity groups such as the AAA and AARP or other organizations, but the gap between the prices has clearly widened.
If you work for a company of any size, make sure to check for its corporate discount before renting. If you run your own firm, call a few car-rental firms and discuss arranging your own discount plan. Do a Google search for "car rental discount codes." You'll be surprised how many apply to you. Use a fare-compare site like Kayak.com to see side-by-side quotes from competing firms for a particular trip. The price range is dramatic. And if you don't care which rental chain you use, try Priceline and Hotwire. Their blind-booking options can cut your rental costs by 55 percent compared to published prices.
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Hotel-room minibars used to be the bête noir of business travel expense reports. The prices that hotels charged for beverages and snacks was so rapacious that many big firms would refuse to reimburse the minibar expenses of their travelers. But the days of the $15 jar of cashews and $7 cans of Diet Coke are largely over. Even with those eye-watering prices, hotels couldn't make money on minibars because the cost of restocking them (not to mention the "shrinkage" when outraged travelers demanded fees be removed after a night of binging on costly cashews) was so high. A majority of hotels now leave the small, in-room fridges empty, a trend that even The Atlantic magazine has felt compelled to document.
Now-empty minibars offer a cost-saving opportunity for cost-conscious business travelers. To avoid the high price of room service—or succumbing to those $6 bottles of water that hotels now ostentatiously place in your room "for your convenience"—stock the bars yourself. Go to a nearby market or convenience store, pick up the beverages and snacks you prefer and stash them in the empty minibar during your stay. The money you save—and the expense account you don't wreck—is your own.
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The battle between hotels that charge for Internet access and those that give it away free is more nuanced now. To accommodate our rapidly increasing demand for data (to stream movies and music, download huge files or do videoconferencing), more hotels than ever are moving to a two-tiered pricing system: A slower Internet speed (good enough for email retrieval and basic Web surfing) may be free, but robust, high-speed access may only be available for a hefty daily fee.
One solution: Bring your own Wi-Fi. As major mobile operators roll out super-fast 4G networks nationwide, they also sell plans that allow you to turn your smartphones into Wi-Fi hotspots. Like Verizon Wireless, they also sell mobile routers and other devices that create personal Wi-Fi bubbles. Even given the higher prices that the phone companies now charge for data access, bringing your own Wi-Fi is cheaper over a monthly basis than a hotel may charge for daily access. Another potential solution: Five major cable-TV providers have linked Wi-Fi networks under the admittedly uninventive rubric CableWiFi that allows you to access the Wi-Fi hotspots of a local cable company for free, just as if you're using your own cable Internet at home or in the office. (Look for the system called CableWiFi when your device is searching available networks.)
Sidestep the change fees
As an industry, U.S. airlines generated $2.5 billion in ticket-change fees last year. And earlier this spring, the major legacy airlines—Delta (NYSE: DAL), United (NYSE: UAL), American (OTC: AAMRQ) and US Airways (NASDAQ: LCC)—doubled down on that windfall by raising the domestic fee for most ticket changes to $200 from the previous $150.
There are three ways to sidestep the fees:
- Don't change your plans after booking your travel, which might not always be practical.
- Fly Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV), which doesn't charge change fees. (A note: Southwest's AirTran Airways subsidiary does charge for changes.)
- Look for fare structures that offer the right to make changes for a more reasonable price. JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) last month adopted a fairly rational approach to changes: The earlier you adjust an itinerary, the less it costs. And if you make a change closer to departure, your fee is based on the price of the ticket. As a result, JetBlue's fees range from $75-$150 rather than $200. And American Airlines now bundles the right to make flight changes into its Your Choice fare options. The lowest fare (called Choice) will cost you $200 to change. But the Choice Essential fare, priced at $68 more, is free of change fees—and you get a free checked bag and priority boarding, too.
Do a card check
As explained last week, carrying the right airline-affiliated credit card can earn you quasi-elite status and thus free checked bags and priority boarding. Ditto for carrying the right hotel-related credit card, which may come with elite status and free perks like better rooms and breakfast. Check our recent list of how to get elite status (usually via the right credit card), which will certainly cut your costs as well as (marginally) improve your travel experience.
Joe Brancatelli writes the weekly business travel column Seat 2B for the Business Journals. He's also the owner of JoeSentMe, a membership site of news and resources for road warriors.
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On location in Britain and Ireland
Superman IV in Milton Keynes? Carry on up the Khyber on Mount Snowdon? Liese Spencer presents a shot-by-shot guide to the towns and castles used as backdrops for some classic films
Friday 12 April 1996
Scandal-monger Ken Russell scored a double triumph while filming this rock opera on the South Coast. First, the theatre on South Parade, Southsea, where Tommy's mother meets her husband Frank burned down during filming. Then Russell was condemned by local clergy for turning St Andrew's church at Eastney into an idolatrous temple to Marilyn Monroe. Less disastrous was Russell's use of Pound's scrapyard in Portsmouth as the site for Tommy's holiday camp. The ship-breakers was strewn with buoys, which Ken jazzed up with a lick of silver paint and voila - giant pinballs.
To get an authentic feel of suffocating seaside ennui, the producers of this period drama went to the retirement capital of Worthing, where they found several sites in need of little alteration. The bus depot where foul-mouthed rebel Lynda (Emily Lloyd) flaunts her new knickers to the conductors was used pretty much as it stands and the Dome Cinema, where Lynda's lover works as a projectionist also appears unchanged. A listed building, film-makers found the theatre replete with red carpet, mournful chandeliers and ancient projectors.
In a scary opening sequence, two keen American backpackers are attacked on the Yorkshire moors by a strange beast. In reality, the wild "moors" were Windsor Great Park, where you're more likely to bump into deer than four-legged friends of Satan. Stumbling into the less than friendly Slaughtered Lamb for a calming pint, the frightened pair are met with a hostile silence. The pub, which has come to epitomise the warm welcome handed out to tourists in some of England's rural areas can actually be found in the leafy suburb of Leatherhead. It is not known whether the commuters who drink at the Black Swan in Effingham actually protect their privacy with a pentangle chalked on the wall.
This stylised and tinted melodrama starred Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons as Anglican nuns seething with illicit passion in the Himalayas but was filmed in the rather less exotic environs of Horsham in Sussex. Here, director Michael Powell discovered the gardens of Leonardslee, which provided authentic flora such as rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and magnolias in a natural valley with six lakes.
This whimsical children's film was shot in 1967 around High Wycombe, Bucks with Dick Van Dyke behind the wheel as an eccentric inventor and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious. Permanently plastered, leading man Van Dyke scores as the ultimate drink driver. No wonder he thought his classic banger could fly.
The first wedding of the film was shot at the traditional stone church of St Michael's, Betchworth, near Dorking, where soaring temperatures insured a suitably idyllic scene but caused one elderly extra to keel over. Rowan Atkinson's tongue-tied priest presides over the following nuptials in a Roman Catholic church which is, in fact the chapel of The Royal Naval College at Greenwich, while Carrie's "Scottish" wedding actually took place at Albury Park in Surrey. Before her unsuccessful marriage, Carrie and Charles shop for the wedding dress at Albrissi in Sloane Square and go for a coffee at The Dome in Wellington Street WC2. And of course, the four-postered honeyroom suite at Amersham's Crown Hotel is now booked years ahead by couples who have seen the film, bought the video and now want to sleep in the bed where Charles (Hugh Grant) and Carrie (Andie MacDowell) first spend the night together.
Nic Roeg's disturbing piece of psychedelia was withheld for a couple of years after completion as the studio viewed it as almost morbidly decadent. Apocryphal gossip from the shoot has it that Keith Richards sat outside the millionaire pad in a Bentley while Mick Jagger had sex with his girlfriend, 60s icon Anita Pallenberg, inside. Interiors were filmed at a smart Kensington residence in Lowndes Square while shots of the exterior came from Powis Square.
In this children's favourite, Rex Harrison talked to the animals and they replied by pecking, scratching and biting the star or relieving themselves during his songs. Shooting in the ancient village of Castle Combe, the production company antagonised locals by damming the village brook to provide the necessary waterfront for the fictional village of Puddleby- on-the-Marsh. According to Harrison, a crack local resistance team, led by outraged resident Ranulph Fiennes plotted to dynamite the dam, but the crew eventually got their footage before moving to the studios of California to work with a better trained troupe of animal actors.
The stunted romance between Mr Stevens and housekeeper Miss Kenton unravels over four English stately homes in this Merchant Ivory production. Dyrham Park, near Bath provided imposing exterior shots, while Corsham Court near Chippenham was used for interior scenes of Nazi- sympathiser Lord Darlington's library. Awkward exchanges on the staircase, between butler Stevens and housekeeper Kenton were grabbed from Powderham Castle near Exeter, while glum scenes in the servant's quarters were filmed "downstairs" at Badminton House in Gloucestershire.
Brandon Lee may have had the ultimate revenge on his alma mater, but director Lindsay Anderson comes a close second. Anderson returned to his old school, Cheltenham college, to shoot this surreal indictment of establishment oppression. When his old headmaster asked if his film would be anything like Tom Brown's Schooldays, Lindsay agreed that they would share certain features, ommiting to mention that his violent story of student revolt featured a master's wife wandering naked along a corridor and scenes of vicious flogging. Senior pupil Malcolm McDowell was also rather different to the well-socialised Tom Brown, machine gunning his teachers and prefects in a speech day uprising.
Money must have been getting tight for this, the last of the Superman movies; how else to explain the banal choice of Milton Keynes to represent the futuristic Metropolis? When our superhero goes to the United Nations to proudly declare that he is disarming the world's nuclear arsenal, he has the indignity of visiting the new town's Central railway station, while a romantic tryst with girlfriend Mariel Hemingway takes place at a skyscraper hotel, known to 20th-century residents as the fantastically glamorous head office of mail order retail company Argos.
The Pass of Llanberis in Wales was about as far as the Carry On team ever got from Pinewood Studios and there's something strange about seeing them blowing around in the open air, the leaden sky reducing their larger- than-life characters to the stature of a straggly school trip. Here, the Third Foot and Mouth led by Sid James defend against the Burpas, foot soldiers to Kenneth Williams's evil Khazi of Kalabar and the famous pass, linking Afghanistan and Pakistan, is reached by a circuitous route around Mount Snowdon.
After Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean turned his epic directorial qualities to a rural romance set in England and Ireland. During filming Leo McKern lost his glass eye in the sea and Trevor Howard and John Mills almost drowned but the film was an enormous success, boosting tourism for years to come with its breathtaking scenes of the Dingle peninsular. Lean completed the film in South Africa, but not before he had built a whole stone village called Kirrary in a desolate spot in the parish of Dunquin. Today, only a cobblestone street and some foundations reamin to bemuse future archeologists.
Although the Oscar-winning epic was set in 13th-century Scotland, the film was largely shot in Ireland due to the generous tax incentives available there. Dunsoghly Castle, just outside Dublin, stood in for Edinburgh Castle as it was felt that international audiences wouldn't recognise the difference. Using shots of both sides, Trim castle, 25 miles north west of Dublin economically doubled as both London and York. A medieval village was constructed at Ben Nevis, however, where Rob Roy pitched up a few weeks later to build their Highland settlement. Fortwilliam Jobcentre provided 200 extras for Braveheart and in nearby Corpath The Nevis bakery cashed in with "medieval bread".
Alan Parker's location manager had a nightmare, accommodating the director's lust for authenticity with 44 different sites. Avoiding picture postcard views of Dublin, the film-makers constructed a patchwork city, which, through the magical ellipses of film paradoxically came closer to the gritty working class area Doyle's book described. Parker also avoided star names and 3,000 locals were auditioned before 12 locals were chosen to take the leads.
This glossy, liberal interpretation of the folktale included a Satanic Sherriff of Nottingham and a tattooed Moor as Robin's best friend, so it's perhaps not surprising to find that the Prince of Thieves made his home not in Sherwood forest, but in Burnham Beeches. The 440-acre forest lies close to Shepperton Studios and therefore features in any number of different pictures. It is here, for example that Forest Whitaker's British soldier Brody makes a desperate run for it after being kidnapped by the IRA, in Neil Jordan's excellent thriller, The Crying Game.
This 1992 production may have died at the box-office over here, but Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche as wild lovers Cathy and Heathcliffe were a big hit in Japan. Such is the number of Japanese visitors to Haworth that direction signs are now bilingual, however, the tourist traffic actually meant that film-makers shifted the action 15 miles away to Grassington.
Danny Boyle's opening shots show a car whizzing over the cobbles of Herriot Street, rapidly establishing that the film's yuppie dream home is meant to be situated at the expensive Edinburgh address of North East Circus Place. However, Glasgow's Film Fund lured the shoe-string production away to do most of the filming in Edinburgh's rival city and when the friends go through the front door they arrive at a Glasgow set.
Rumour has it that the festival city of Edinburgh was not keen to host Irvine Welsh's drugged-out drama, so filming relocated to Glasgow, where Begbie and crew could break glasses and chase around dour estates under the savvy gaze of the Glasgow Film Fund.
In the last century, the alleys that run off from Edinburgh's Royal Mile seethed with poverty and prostitution and today, despite widespread gentrification, the steep-sided streets retain a sinister, claustrophobic quality. For this neo-gothic Hollywood remake of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Carruber's Close was transformed into Slaughterhouse Street, the unsalubrious area Mr Hyde visits to purchase the enormous glistening viscera of a cow for one of his master's fiendish experiments. In true Hammer style, the 1,000 gallons of blood that washed the cobbles on the day of filming was made from dyed water and thickened golden syrup.
Although most of the movie was shot on the banks of the famous water, filmmakers felt the lochside ruins of Castle Urquhart were not dramatic enough to be the secret home of a family of Nessies and intercut footage of Eilean Donan, the west coast fortress featured in Highlander. Similarly, at the start of the film, an unlucky scientist fatally slips from a pier after glimpsing a monstrous fin cutting through the water. He must have had good eyesight since his promontory can be found fifty miles away at Lower Diabag, situated on the shores of Loch Torridon.
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THE slogan "Labour isn't working", over a picture of an unemployment line, was plastered across advertising hoardings during the election of 1979, and helped the Tories to win. With the government heading, it seems, for certain defeat, Labour's policies on jobs again demand careful scrutiny. After a huge rise in unemployment under the Tories in the early 1980s, reflecting both the depth of the recession and a new zeal among managers to reduce overmanning, the number of Britain's jobless has fluctuated with the economic cycle. But for the past five years the country's labour market has performed well. Unemployment has fallen to 1 3/4m, down by nearly 1m since the election of 1992. This is higher than in 1979, but within a whisker of being the lowest since 1980. Would Labour maintain this trend? Could it do even better?
The recent fall in British unemployment has two main causes: steady economic growth, and increased labour-market flexibility, allowing a better matching of workers and jobs. This greater flexibility has come from reducing the power of the trade unions, cutting the cost of hiring and firing workers, and making it harder for those who can work but won't work to live idly on state benefits.
Taken strictly at its word, Labour no longer poses a threat to this Tory legacy. Indeed, New Labour has even promised to promote British-style labour-market flexibility throughout Europe. How far, if at all, Labour really means this, or understands the implications of such promises, is in doubt.
The party is unimpressed by the fall in unemployment. It dismisses the figures—which, though far from perfect, do paint a broadly accurate picture. It accuses the Tories of lowering headline unemployment (based on the number of people claiming out-of-work benefits) merely by forcing people off benefits. Yet there is no evidence that anyone fit for work and unable to find any has been denied help. When the Tories say that a higher proportion of the working-age population is now employed in Britain than in any other big European country, Labour dismisses the claim—this is true only because of an increase in the number of part-time workers, it says. But surveys show that over 70% of part-timers do not want a full-time job. The Tory reforms have made it easier for them to work when they want to. Labour talks about labour-market flexibility, but seems ignorant of what flexible labour markets actually entail.
The same is true of Labour's repeated charges of growing wage inequality and job insecurity. Undeniably, both have risen. But again these changes stem directly from the improvement in labour-market flexibility which has helped to reduce unemployment and deliver steady economic growth—and which Labour claims to welcome.
There are other reasons to worry about Labour's policies on jobs. The party's links to the trade unions have been weakened, but not dissolved. How this will affect a Labour government is anyone's guess. The party's confusion this week over the implications of its policy for restoring the right to union recognition gives pause for thought. Its attempts to seduce big business, widely seen as evidence of a new-found enthusiasm for the market economy, could prove instead a harbinger of a return to the corporatism of the 1960s and 1970s, perhaps under the banner of "stakeholder capitalism". Big firms are often keen on costly labour-market regulation because it kills small competitors. Labour has already won backing from some large firms for its plan to sign the European Union's social chapter and set a national minimum wage, policies which are likely to be far more damaging to small firms than big ones.
To be fair to Labour, the threat to jobs of the social chapter, at least on measures introduced to date, has been exaggerated by the Tories. John Major's claim that signing it would eventually cost Britain 500,000 jobs is alarmist. But there is undeniably a risk that signing would inflict higher costs on the economy. If Labour values flexible labour markets, as it claims, why take the risk? The national minimum wage is more worrying, though just how much more depends on the level at which it is set. On that, Labour is silent: such details will be left to the post-election deliberations of a Low Pay Commission, to include representatives from business and the unions. Whatever level is chosen, a minimum wage cannot help the jobless, and might well increase their number.
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By contrast, Labour's promise to do more to tackle youth and long-term unemployment is welcome. The Tories have done too little, too late about both issues. Many young people never get a foot on the employment ladder. Too many older people have become permanently detached from the jobs market. Helping, and prodding, such people into a job makes both economic and social sense. Labour says it will subsidise such jobs and cut benefits for anyone not accepting one. The Tories have experimented with "workfare", but the scale of Labour's scheme is much bigger (see page).
Even here, Labour is underestimating the difficulties. It plans to fund the job-creation scheme with a one-off "windfall tax" on the privatised utilities, even though the costs of any such scheme will be recurring, not one-off. Subsidising jobs for the long-term unemployed may destroy almost as many existing low-paid jobs as it creates, thus putting people currently in work on to the dole. Most of those helped by workfare will be given low-paid jobs; these will have to be supported with in-work benefits, a continuing cost to the taxpayer. Labour's minimum wage might stop employers pocketing most of the benefit, as the party claims, but less state subsidy would presumably mean fewer subsidised jobs.
Workfare is worth pursuing, but it is not a cheap idea, and it will not necessarily reduce the overall unemployment count. Has Labour realised this? Does it understand that the best way to reduce unemployment is to maintain steady economic growth, and to interfere with the market for work as little as possible? Apparently not.


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An endoscopic swab device comprising an elongated housing, a swab operatively associated with a distal end of the elongated housing and a connection member for connecting the swab relative to the housing and extending through the housing. A rotatable member is positioned on the housing to engage the connection member and further prevents separation of the swab from the housing. The tautness of the swab may be adjusted by rotating the rotatable member which positions the swab longitudinally relative to the elongated housing.
1. A swab device comprising:
an elongated housing;
a swab;
a connecting member configured and dimensioned to apply only a unidirectional longitudinal force to tension said swab, said connecting member being formed of flexible material and extending through said housing;
a retaining member retaining said connecting member and said swab relative to said housing wherein movement of said retaining member causes tensioning of said connecting member and said swab;
means for fixedly attaching a portion of said connecting member to said retaining member thereby preventing inadvertent detachment of said connecting member from said elongated housing; and
a seal member positioned in said elongated housing; said seal member preventing escape of fluids therefrom.
2. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein said retaining member is positioned at a first end of said elongated housing which is opposite to a second end from which said swab extends.
3. A swab device as in claim 2 further comprising a seat in said second end of said elongated housing for stabilizing said swab relative to said elongated housing.
4. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein said connecting member is a suture.
5. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein said swab is composed of a material for abrading a tissue sample.
6. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein said rotatable member is attached to a proximal end of said elongated housing.
7. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein said swab is composed of a gauze material.
8. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein movement of said retaining member in a first direction retracts a portion of said swab into said elongated housing thereby increasing the tautness of said swab.
9. A swab device as in claim 1 wherein said retaining member is a rotating knob.
10. A swab device comprising:
a handle portion;
an elongated portion extending from said handle portion;
at least one swab, said at least one swab being attached to a suture material operatively associated with said handle portion and retaining said swab within a distal end of said elongated portion, said suture material extending through said elongated portion and being formed of flexible material configured and dimensioned to impart only a unidirectional force on said at least one swab in a single longitudinal direction to alter the tautness of said at least one swab;
a knob positioned in said handle portion and engaging said suture material for moving said at least one swab between a first position and a second position; and
a seal member positioned in said handle portion, said seal member preventing escape of fluids therefrom.
11. A swab device as in claim 10 wherein said at least one swab is composed of a material for abrading a tissue sample.
12. A swab device as in claim 10 wherein said at least one swab is composed of a material configured and dimensioned for bluntly dissecting a tissue sample.
13. A swab device as in claim 11 wherein said swab has a curved configuration.
14. A swab device as in claim 12 wherein said swab has a U-shaped configuration which is formed by bending said swab about the distal end of said elongated portion.
1. Field of the Invention
The subject invention relates to surgical apparatus for performing endoscopic and laparoscopic surgical procedures, and more particularly, to surgical apparatus having a swab for abrasion or blunt dissection.
2. Description of the Related Art
In endoscopic and laparoscopic surgical procedures, a small incision or puncture is made in the patient's body to provide access for a trocar or cannula device. Once extended into the patient's body, the cannula allows insertion of various surgical instruments such as clip appliers, dissectors, scissors, forceps or graspers. It has thus become necessary for these instruments to have a configuration which can be inserted through the trocar housing and cannula.
One example of a swab is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,283,909 to Prost and is directed to a swab holding tool having a handle with tube mounted in a passageway thereof. The distal end of the tube includes a flared portion for holding a swab and indents for engaging a rod of the swab. Movement of the rod results in movement of the swab into and out of the tube. Another swab device for obtaining specimens is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,847,000 to Nieburgs. This device includes a tube having a plunger therein which is adapted for longitudinal and rotational movement. A swab is positioned at one end of the plunger, the overall length of which is greater than the length of the tube. Both of these references disclose devices for cleaning or sample collection.
An endoscopic swab device is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,074,840 to Yoon. This device discloses a packing device having a delivery tube and a rod attached to the proximal end of the gauze material. The rod deploys and manipulates the gauze material which absorbs liquid. Because of its flexibility this swab device is not well suited for abrading a sample.
It is desirable therefore, to provide an endoscopic swab device which can abrade or bluntly dissect a sample, such as tissue or an organ. It would also be desirable for the swab device to have an adjustable tautness. The device must also be adapted for insertion through a trocar and permit manipulation of the swab from an area remote to the area of operation, i.e., outside the body cavity. It would also be advantageous for the swab device to be simple and inexpensive to manufacture.
The subject invention provides a novel swab device for blunt dissection or abrading a sample during an endoscopic surgical procedure. The tautness of the swab in this device is adjustable. The device is also adapted and configured for unobstructed insertion through a trocar housing and cannula during endoscopic or laparoscopic procedures.
The endoscopic swab device in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention comprises an elongated housing having a connecting member extending therethrough. A swab is attached by sutures to the connecting member and extends from a distal end of the housing. A rotatable threaded member engages the threaded connecting member about the proximal end of the stem. Rotation of the rotatable member moves the swab longitudinally relative to the housing. The position of the swab relative to the housing affects the tautness of the swab and therefore its abrasiveness.
Further features of the swab device of the subject invention will become more readily apparent from the following detailed description of the invention.
For a further understanding of the objects of the present invention, reference is made to the following detailed description of preferred embodiment which is to be taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a device in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an elevational sectional view taken along the line 2--2 in FIG. 1;
FIG. 2A is a front elevation view of the proximal end of the end cap of the device shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view of the proximal end of an alternative end cap for the device shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 3 is an elevational sectional view of an alternate apparatus in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a side view of another alternate apparatus in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of yet another alternate apparatus in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a side view of the handle of the apparatus shown in FIGS. 5 and 6;
FIG. 8 is an exploded front view of the swab shown in Fig. 5;
FIG. 9 is an elevational view of another alternative apparatus in accordance with the present invention; and
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 10--10 in FIG. 9.
Laparoscopic procedures are by standard definition a subset of endoscopic procedures although these terms are often used interchangeably. Accordingly, the subject invention shall be discussed in terms of endoscopic procedures and apparatus. However, use herein of the terms such as "endoscopic", "endoscopically", and "endoscopic portion", among others, should not be construed to limit the present invention to an apparatus for use only in conjunction with an endoscopic tube. To the contrary, the subject invention may find use in any procedure in which access is limited to a small incision, including but not limited to laparoscopic procedures.
In the drawings and the description which follows, the term "proximal" will refer to the end of the apparatus which is closest to the operator while the term "distal" will refer to the end which is furthest from the operator.
Referring now in detail to the drawings in which like reference numerals identify similar or identical elements, a preferred embodiment of the swab device of the subject invention is illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, and is generally designated by reference numeral 10. Endoscopic swab device 10 comprises an elongated endoscopic portion 20, and a swab 22 which is attached to a suture 24. An end cap 26 retains the suture 24 and connects, or engages, the suture 24 and swab 22 with the endoscopic portion 20.
The endoscopic portion 20 which is in the form of an elongated tubular housing, stem or portion includes a passageway 28 extending therethrough from a distal end opening 30 to a proximal end opening 32 thereof. The distal opening 30 includes a countersunk hole 34 for receiving a portion of the swab 22 within the passageway 28 and thereby increasing the rigidity and stability of the swab 22 within the endoscopic portion 20 and avoiding possibility of fraying the suture. The hole 34 increases the stability and rigidity by allowing a portion of the swab 22 to rest in the hole 34. While in this embodiment the swab 22 is seated in a countersunk hole machined into the passageway, it would also be possible to provide a separate piece which could be fixedly attached in the passageway 28 near the distal end opening 30 and provide the same properties. Also, a deeper slot or hole 34 may be desired to resist sideway motion of the swab 22 during use. Sideway motion of the swab 22 could also be limited by adding glue to the hole 34 to limit lateral motion of the swab 22. The adjustability of swab tautness would be affected somewhat, however the swab 22 could still be pulled back into the distal opening 30 to affect tautness.
The proximal end opening 32 is adapted and configured to receive the suture 24 therethrough. Distal to the proximal opening 32 is an adapter 36 which is positioned around the endoscopic portion 20 and matingly engages the end cap 26. The adapter 36 includes a raised spiral portion 38 which matingly engages a spiral groove 40 formed in the inner surface of the end cap distal end 42. Rotation of the end cap 26 and the helical groove 40 along the spiral, raised portion 38 of the adapter 36 causes the suture 24 attached to the end cap 26 to move in a longitudinal direction. Thus, rotation of the end cap 26 results in tightening the suture 24 and positioning the swab 22 attached to the suture 24 within the endoscopic portion 20. The end cap 26 may be rotated along the adapter 36 until the cap 26 runs out of spiral, threaded, raised portion 38, thereby resulting in the end cap 26 being continuously rotated about the proximalmost raised portion 38 of the adapter 36 and also preventing inadvertent disengagement of the cap 26 from the endoscopic portion 20.
As best seen in FIGS. 1 and 2A, the rotatable end cap includes a knurled surface 46 to enhance rotation of the cap 26 and, at its proximalmost end, a post 48 having a slit 50. The knurled surface 46 enables the user to better grip the end cap, and thereby enhance rotation of the end cap 26.
The swab 22 in this embodiment is a rosebud swab which is a spherical pre-tightened cotton gauze of simple, but denser than normal or twill, chevron weave. The swab 22 has a suture threaded therethrough, and is generally intended for abrading tissue during a surgical procedure. The suture or connection member 24 is attached to the swab 22 by inserting one end of the suture 24 through the swab 22. The suture is then tied into a knot 23 to prevent the swab 22 from traveling past the knot 23 in the suture 24. Other swabs, such as a Cherry Sponge or a "K" Dissector, could also be utilized for sample collection or for absorbing fluid during a surgical procedure.
In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the suture 24 extends from the distal end 56 of the endoscopic portion 20, through the swab 22 and returns to the proximal end 58 of the endoscopic portion 20. As shown in the drawings the suture extends through the opening 32 in the endoscopic portion 20 and is wrapped around the post 48 and retained by a slit 50.
While in this embodiment the suture 24 acts as a connecting member, any type of string or elongated material could be used to connect and position the swab 22. Also, although the suture 24 in this embodiment is double stranded, it could also be, for example, single or triple stranded.
The swab device 10 also includes a foam seal 60 positioned in the proximal end 58 of the endoscopic portion 20 for preventing the escape of insufflation gas therethrough during endoscopic procedures. The suture 24 extends through a small opening 62 in the seal 60.
An alternative end cap 26'" is shown in FIG. 2B and includes a knob 48'" which is substantially the same diameter as the end cap 26'" with which it is integral. The suture 24 extends through an opening 32'" formed in the knob 48'" and is wrapped around circular slit 50'" to lock its position. A lateral slit is also included to for additional securement of the suture 24 to the end cap 26'".
Referring to FIG. 3, another embodiment of the swab device 11 of the present invention is shown. In this embodiment the end cap 26' of swab device 11 includes an opening 32' which is only slightly larger in diameter than the diameter of the suture 24'. A suture anchor 64' is positioned adjacent the opening 32' to retain the suture 24' and prevent its disengagement from the end cap 26'. While this embodiment includes a suture anchor, it would also be possible to attach the suture to the end cap by an adhesive or a secure knot in the suture.
While each of the aforedescribed embodiments are intended to be 5 mm instruments, i.e. the outer diameter of the endoscope portion 20 would be approximately 5 mm, the device could also be used as a 10 mm instrument or in other diameters as well. It is contemplated that such a device could have an endoscopic portion with a swab spun around its distal end to form a tampon like member.
In yet another embodiment, which is shown in FIG. 4, the swab device 13 includes an end cap 26" formed of flexible material and snugly fitting over the distal end 56" of endoscopic portion 20". The fit of the end cap 26" and endoscopic portion 20" is such that the suture 24" is retained by the cap 26" and cannot move relative to the endoscopic portion 20" without removing the end cap 26". In order to adjust the tautness of the swab 22", the end cap 26" is removed by pulling the cap 26" in the proximal direction. The suture 24" may then be pulled proximally to tighten it and increase the tautness of the swab 22", or released to loosen the suture 24" and reduce the tautness of the swab 22". The suture 24" is retained in its desired location by replacing the end cap 26" over the proximal end of the endoscopic portion 20" and over the suture 24" which has been positioned such that the swab 22" is of the desired tautness.
As shown in FIG. 4, an additional feature of this embodiment is the swab which is tubular in its original state, can be bent double, into a U-shape shown in the figure. A knot 64" keeps the swab in its U-shape and is formed in the suture 24" before its insertion into the endoscopic portion 20". Alternatively, the opposite sides of the U-shape may be sewn together, preferably with lock stitches. This horseshoe or U-shaped swab is commonly referred to as a Kittner Dissector.
In use, the swab device 10 is inserted into the body cavity through a cannula assembly of a trocar or directly through a small incision. While the use of the swab device 10 is described herein with respect to the first described embodiment, the other embodiments could also be used in the same manner. A laparoscopic camera will capture the entry and position of the apparatus in the body cavity, and this image will be reproduced on a monitor which the surgeon will be viewing. While following his or her movement on the monitor, the surgeon will be able to locate and position the swab device 10 at the body organ and tissue to be abraded. The surgeon then abrades the sample, or unwanted tissue, or other matter from the organ or tissue by brushing the swab against the object to be abraded. Depending on the desired swab tautness, which would relate to the fragility of organ and tissue to be abraded, the surgeon may rotate the end cap 26 to adjust the tautness of the swab 22. A sample or tissue which is sensitive or fragile would probably require a less taut swab than a sample or tissue which does not have those properties, or is difficult to remove. Once the desired swab tautness has been obtained, the suture 24 is wrapped around the post 48 and engaged in the slit 50 to prevent disengagement of the suture from the end cap 26.
In the event the surgeon would like to bluntly dissect the tissue or sample, the swab 22 abrades the desired sample and the surgeon then grasps the sample with another instrument such as an endoscopic grasper. The grasper with the sample can then be withdrawn through the trocar and transported to a laboratory for analysis.
The swab 22 and suture 40 are packaged in the endoscopic portion under normal tension, such that the swab has average tautness which may be adjusted in the above-identified manner. The swab device may be packaged as a single unit or in a multipack. Further, the swab device may be packaged as part of a kit for a cholecystectomy or other laparoscopic procedure.
Another embodiment of the swab device which is particularly adapted for supplying a plurality of swabs to the surgical site is shown in FIGS. 5 to 7. Referring particularly to FIGS. 5 and 6, the swab device 100 comprises a handle 102, an endoscopic elongated portion 104 and at least one swab 106 connected by a connecting member or suture 108 to the knob 120. The handle 102 is formed by a first housing 110 and a second housing 112. The housings 110 and 112 are positioned by pins 114 and their inner surfaces 116 are contoured and recessed so as to receive various components of the device as further explained below. The housings 110 and 112 are held together by an adhesive or may be welded or attached by screws.
The proximal end 118 of the handle 102 includes a knob 120 which adjusts and actuates the suture 108, and preferably includes a knurled surface 122 which enhances rotation by facilitating gripping. Extending from the inner surface 116 of the first housing 110 is a proximal end pin 124 which extends through and engages an opening 126 formed through the knob 120. The proximal ends 118 of handle housings 110 and 112 include radial cutouts 128 which are configured such that the knurled surface 122 of the knob 120 extends slightly beyond the proximalmost surface of the housings 110 and 112 to permit rotation of the knob 120 by the user. The knob 120 further includes a pair of oppositely positioned first and second openings 130 and 132 which receive a first end 134 and a second end 136, respectively, of the suture 108. A pair of radial flanges 131 extend from the knob 120 for positioning the knob 120 within the handle 102.
The endoscopic or elongated portion 104 extends through and is retained within the handle 110. The endoscopic portion 104 further includes an opening 150 through which the suture 108 passes on its return to the handle 110. A spring 138, which in this embodiment is a compression coil spring, is positioned within the handle 110 and biases the suture 108 toward the distal end of the device 100 to keep the swab 106 and the suture 108 taut. A foam seal 140 is also positioned in the handle 110 to prevent the escape of insufflation gases. A pair of openings 142 are provided in the seal 140 to allow the suture 108 to pass through the seal 140. The distal end of the endoscopic portion 104 includes a seat 144 attached thereto. The seat 144 prevents the swabs 106 from fraying when they are bent (See FIG. 8) around the endoscopic portion 104.
In this device, the swab 106 is a Peanut swab which is a cotton gauze bag wrapped by a string. The connecting member or suture 108 is preferably attached through the proximal end of the proximalmost swab and out the middle of an upper portion 107 of that swab. That same suture 108 then is attached through the upper portion 107 of the next most distal swab and exits out the distalmost end of that swab. Alternatively the suture could pass through each swab in a straight line through its middle portion or through its top portion.
As stated earlier the suture 108 extends through the endoscopic portion 104, and begins and ends at first and second suture ends 134 and 136. As shown in FIG. 7, the first end 134 has a knot 135 formed therein which extends through the opening 130 and anchors that end of the suture in the knob 120 and further extends down the endoscopic portion 104. Extra suture 146 is wrapped around flange 131 and is supplied distally down the endoscopic portion 104 as the swabs are advanced distally. The second suture end 136 extends through opening 132 and terminates in a knot 137. A second flange 133 extends from the knob 120 and extra suture 148 (shown in phantom in FIG. 7) is wrapped around this flange when the knob 120 is rotated and extra suture 146 is unwrapped from flange 131.
In use, the swab device 100 is inserted into the body cavity through a cannula assembly of a trocar or directly through a small incision. A laparoscopic camera will capture the entry and position of the apparatus in the body cavity, and this image will be reproduced on a monitor which the surgeon will be viewing. While following his or her movement on the monitor, the surgeon will be able to locate and position the swab device 100 at the body organ and tissue to be dissected. The surgeon then rotates the knob 120 in a clockwise direction to advance the distal most swab 106 out of the endoscopic portion 104. The surgeon then bluntly dissects the tissue which is grasped by another instrument, such as a grasper, once that tissue has been dissected from its source. Once the swab 106 has been used, a clean swab can be advanced to the surgical site by further clockwise rotation of the knob. These steps can be repeated to advance additional clean swabs 106. This clockwise rotation will cause a portion of the extra suture 146 to unwrap from flange 131 and advance down the endoscopic portion, while a corresponding portion of suture 148 (shown in phantom in FIG. 7) will wrap around the opposite flange 133.
Also, this device could be used for abrasion. Once the abrasion or blunt dissection has been completed, or when all of the swabs 106 have been used, the distal most swab 106, as well as any other swabs, is retracted through the endoscopic portion 104 by rotating the knob 120 in a direction opposite to that used to advance the swabs distally.
Yet another embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. 9 and is particularly directed to a swab device for supplying a continuous piece of gauze or swab to the surgical site for dissection, abrasion or absorption. The swab device 300 comprises a handle 302, an elongated endoscopic portion 304 and a swab or belt of gauze 306 engaged by the handle 302. The handle 302 includes a housing 308 which houses a rotating knob 310, an axle 312 and a compression spring 314. The knob 310 has a knurled surface 316 which enhances rotation by facilitating gripping. The axle 312 is attached to the knob 310 such that movement of the knob causes corresponding movement of the axle 312 and gauze 306. The axle 312 includes at least two gripping or engaging extensions 318 for engaging and rotating the gauze belt 306. The spring 314 biases the shaft 320 towards the distal end of the device to keep the gauze 306 taut. The handle knob 310 may also include a ratchet for limiting rotation of the knob 310 in only one direction.
The continuous belt of gauze extends from the handle 302 through the elongated portion 304 which includes a shaft 320 extending therethrough to guide the gauze 306 and prevent contamination of unused gauze 306. The shaft 320, best seen in FIG. 10, includes first and second cut out sections 322, 324, respectively, which each house opposite sections of the gauze 306 and prevent gauze contamination thereof. The shaft 320 is fitted into the handle 302 by flanges 326.
In use, the swab device 300 is inserted into the body as described with respect to the previous embodiment. Once the swab device 300 has been advanced to the surgical site and the distal gauze 328 extending from the elongated portion 304 has become saturated or used, clean, new gauze can be advanced to the surgical site by rotating the knob 310. This can be repeated as necessary.
It will be understood that the foregoing is illustrative of the principles of the invention and that various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention.
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