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App. No. 15/684,653

VACUUM POWERED ROTARY DEVICES AND METHODS

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App. No.
15/684,653
Abstract

The present devices and methods relate generally to vacuum or suction powered medical devices and methods for cutting, resecting, excising, morcellating and/or evacuating tissue from various regions of a patient's body, in certain variations, the devices may produce a rotational motion by converting a linear reciprocating motion to a rotational motion, causing a cutting shaft or other tool to rotate to perform work on a tissue in various regions of the body.

Claims (5)

1 . A method for performing work on tissue in the human body comprising:

positioning an operable element located on a distal end of a medical device against a target tissue;

powering the medical device with suction such that the suction drives a mechanism that produces linear reciprocating motion;

converting the linear reciprocating motion into a rotary motion; and

causing, via the rotary motion, the operable element to rotate, whereby the operable element performs work on the target tissue.