Profile: Aesculap Ag offers instruments for minimal invasive surgery. Our product range includes surgical instruments for open or minimally invasive approaches, implants for orthopedic, neuro and spinal surgery, surgical sutures, sterile, storage, engine or navigation systems as well as products for cardiology. The neuro surgical product includes instrument for bipolar coagulation, bone flap fixation, cerebro vascular clips, duraersatz, high speed drill, hydrocephalus shunt and instruments for neuroendoscopy. We provide motor systems for a variety of indications such as orthopedics, arthroscopy, neurosurgery and spinal surgery. We offer a wide selection of products and services for interventional cardiology and vascular surgery such as angiography, angioplasty, electrophysiology, hemodynamics in the catheterization laboratory, vena cava filter, vascular implants and specialties.
FDA Registration Number: 9610612
US Agent: Robin Fatzinger / Aesculap, Inc.
Phone: +1-(610)-984-9067 Fax: +1-(610)-791-6882 E-Mail:
• Laryngectomy Tube (FDA Code: KAC / 874.4420) |
• Laser Power Probe |
• Ligature Carrier (FDA Code: GEJ / 878.4800) A manual surgical instrument for general use is a nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated device, either reusable or disposable, intended to be used in various general surgical procedures. The device includes the applicator, clip applier, biopsy brush, manual dermabrasion brush, scrub brush, cannula, ligature carrier, chisel, clamp, contractor, curette, cutter, dissector, elevator, skin graft expander, file, forceps, gouge, instrument guide, needle guide, hammer, hemostat, amputation hook, ligature passing and knot-tying instrument, knife, blood lancet, mallet, disposable or reusable aspiration and injection needle, disposable or reusable suturing needle, osteotome, pliers, rasp, retainer, retractor, saw, scalpel blade, scalpel handle, one-piece scalpel, snare, spatula, stapler, disposable or reusable stripper, stylet, suturing apparatus for the stomach and intestine, measuring tape, and calipers. A surgical instrument that has specialized uses in a specific medical specialty is classified in separate regulations in parts 868 through 892. |
• Ligature Carrier Set (FDA Code: GEJ / 878.4800) |
• Ligature Passing and Knot Tying Instrument (FDA Code: HCF / 878.4800) |
• Low Power Binocular Loupe (FDA Code: HJH / 886.5120) A low-power binocular loupe is a device that consists of two eyepieces, each with a lens or lens system, intended for medical purposes to magnify the appearance of objects. |
• Magnifying Spectacle (FDA Code: HOI / 886.5840) Magnifying spectacles are devices that consist of spectacle frames with convex lenses intended to be worn by a patient who has impaired vision to enlarge images. |
• Malleus Nipper (FDA Code: JYR / 874.4420) |
• Manual Cast Application and Removal Instrument (FDA Code: LGG / 888.5980) A manual cast application and removal instrument is a nonpowered hand-held device intended to be used in applying or removing a cast. This generic type of device includes the cast knife, cast spreader, plaster saw, plaster dispenser, and casting stand. |
• Manual Gastro-Urology Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: KOA / 876.4730) A manual gastroenterology-urology surgical instrument and accessories is a device designed to be used for gastroenterological and urological surgical procedures. The device may be nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated. Manual gastroenterology-urology surgical instruments include the biopsy forceps cover, biopsy tray without biopsy instruments, line clamp, nonpowered rectal probe, nonelectrical clamp, colostomy spur-crushers, locking device for intestinal clamp, needle holder, gastro-urology hook, gastro-urology probe and director, nonself-retaining retractor, laparotomy rings, nonelectrical snare, rectal specula, bladder neck spreader, self-retaining retractor, and scoop. |
• Manual Operating Room Table (FDA Code: FSE / 878.4950) A manual operating table and accessories and a manual operating chair and accessories are nonpowered devices, usually with movable components, intended to be used to support a patient during diagnostic examinations or surgical procedures. |
• Manual Osteotome (FDA Code: GFI / 878.4800) |
• Manual Rongeur (FDA Code: HAE / 882.4840) A manual rongeur is a manually operated instrument used for cutting or biting bone during surgery involving the skull or spinal column. |
• Manual Saw & Accessories (FDA Code: GDR / 878.4800) |
• Manual Stethoscope (FDA Code: LDE / 870.1875) A manual stethoscope is a mechanical device used to project the sounds associated with the heart, arteries, and veins and other internal organs. |
• Manual Surgical Chisel (FDA Code: FZO / 878.4800) |
• Manual/Powered Portable Aspiration Pump (FDA Code: BTA / 878.4780) A powered suction pump is a portable, AC-powered or compressed air-powered device intended to be used to remove infectious materials from wounds or fluids from a patient's airway or respiratory support system. The device may be used during surgery in the operating room or at the patient's bedside. The device may include a microbial filter. |
• Manually Operated Bladder Evacuator (FDA Code: FFD / 876.4370) A gastroenterology-urology evacuator is a device used to remove debris and fluids during gastroenterological and urological procedures by drainage, aspiration, or irrigation. This generic type of device includes the fluid evacuator system, manually powered bladder evacuator, and the AC-powered vacuum pump. |
• Measuring Gauge (FDA Code: JYJ / 874.4420) |
• Medical Probes (FDA Code: HXB / 888.4540) An orthopedic manual surgical instrument is a nonpowered hand-held device intended for medical purposes to manipulate tissue, or for use with other devices in orthopedic surgery. This generic type of device includes the cerclage applier, awl, bender, drill brace, broach, burr, corkscrew, countersink, pin crimper, wire cutter, prosthesis driver, extractor, file, fork, needle holder, impactor, bending or contouring instrument, compression instrument, passer, socket positioner, probe, femoral neck punch, socket pusher, reamer, rongeur, scissors, screwdriver, bone skid, staple driver, bone screw starter, surgical stripper, tamp, bone tap, trephine, wire twister, and wrench. |
• Medical Rasps (FDA Code: HTR / 878.4800) |
• Metal Vaginal Speculum (FDA Code: HDF / 884.4520) An obstetric-gynecologic general manual instrument is one of a group of devices used to perform simple obstetric and gynecologic manipulative functions. This generic type of device consists of the following: |
• Metal/Plastic Urethral Sound (FDA Code: FBX / 876.5520) A urethral dilator is a device that consists of a slender hollow or solid instrument made of metal, plastic, or other suitable material in a cylindrical form and in a range of sizes and flexibilities. The device may include a mechanism to expand the portion of the device in the urethra and indicate the degree of expansion on a dial. It is used to dilate the urethra. This generic type of device includes the mechanical urethral dilator, urological bougies, metal or plastic urethral sound, urethrometer, filiform, and filiform follower. |
• Metal/Polymer Femoral Hemi- Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: KWY / 888.3390) A hip joint femoral (hemi-hip) metal/polymer cemented or uncemented prosthesis is a two-part device intended to be implanted to replace the head and neck of the femur. This generic type of device includes prostheses that have a femoral component made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and a snap-fit acetabular component made of an alloy, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. This generic type of device may be fixed to the bone with bone cement (888.3027) or implanted by impaction. |
• Metal/Polymer Semi-Constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: LPH / 888.3358) A hip joint metal/polymer/metal semi-constrained porous-coated uncemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. The device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across the joint. This generic type of device has a femoral component made of a cobalt-chromium-molybdenum (Co-Cr-Mo) alloy or a titanium-aluminum-vanadium (Ti-6Al-4V) alloy and an acetabular component composed of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene articulating bearing surface fixed in a metal shell made of Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V. The femoral stem and acetabular shell have a porous coating made of, in the case of Co-Cr-Mo substrates, beads of the same alloy, and in the case of Ti-6Al-4V substrates, fibers of commercially pure titanium or Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The porous coating has a volume porosity between 30 and 70 percent, an average pore size between 100 and 1,000 microns, interconnecting porosity, and a porous coating thickness between 500 and 1,500 microns. The generic type of device has a design to achieve biological fixation to bone without the use of bone cement. |
• Microsurgical Ear Pick (FDA Code: JYT / 874.4420) |
• Microsurgical Instruments (FDA Code: GZX / 882.4525) A microsurgical instrument is a nonpowered surgical instrument used in neurological microsurgery procedures. |
• Middle Ear Chisel (FDA Code: JYE / 874.4420) |
• Miscellaneous Endoscope Bulb Adaptor (FDA Code: FFY / 876.1500) An endoscope and accessories is a device used to provide access, illumination, and allow observation or manipulation of body cavities, hollow organs, and canals. The device consists of various rigid or flexible instruments that are inserted into body spaces and may include an optical system for conveying an image to the user's eye and their accessories may assist in gaining access or increase the versatility and augment the capabilities of the devices. Examples of devices that are within this generic type of device include cleaning accessories for endoscopes, photographic accessories for endoscopes, nonpowered anoscopes, binolcular attachments for endoscopes, pocket battery boxes, flexible or rigid choledochoscopes, colonoscopes, diagnostic cystoscopes, cystourethroscopes, enteroscopes, esophagogastroduodenoscopes, rigid esophagoscopes, fiberoptic illuminators for endoscopes, incandescent endoscope lamps, biliary pancreatoscopes, proctoscopes, resectoscopes, nephroscopes, sigmoidoscopes, ureteroscopes, urethroscopes, endomagnetic retrievers, cytology brushes for endoscopes, and lubricating jelly for transurethral surgical instruments. This section does not apply to endoscopes that have specialized uses in other medical specialty areas and that are covered by classification regulations in other parts of the device classification regulations. |
• Monofilament & Multifilament Steel Non-Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAQ / 878.4495) A stainless steel suture is a needled or unneedled nonabsorbable surgical suture composed of 316L stainless steel, in USP sizes 12-0 through 10, or a substantially equivalent stainless steel suture, intended for use in abdominal wound closure, intestinal anastomosis, hernia repair, and sternal closure. |
• Mouth Gags (FDA Code: KBN / 874.4420) |
• Myringotomy Knife (FDA Code: JYP / 874.4420) |
• Nail Extractors (FDA Code: HWB / 888.4540) |
• Nasal Curette (FDA Code: KAP / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Knife (FDA Code: KAS / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Punch (FDA Code: KAY / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Rasps (FDA Code: KBA / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Rongeur (FDA Code: KBB / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Saw (FDA Code: KBC / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Scissors (FDA Code: KBD / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Scissors Straight (FDA Code: KBD / 874.4420) |
• Nasal Snare (FDA Code: KBE / 874.4420) |
• Natural Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAL / 878.4830) An absorbable surgical gut suture, both plain and chromic, is an absorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from either the serosal connective tissue layer of beef (bovine) or the submucosal fibrous tissue of sheep (ovine) intestine, and is intended for use in soft tissue approximation. |
• Neurological Endoscope (FDA Code: GWG / 882.1480) A neurological endoscope is an instrument with a light source used to view the inside of the ventricles of the brain. |
• Neurological Stereotaxic Instrument (FDA Code: HAW / 882.4560) A stereotaxic instrument is a device consisting of a rigid frame with a calibrated guide mechanism for precisely positioning probes or other devices within a patient's brain, spinal cord, or other part of the nervous system. |
• Neurology Self-Retaining Retractor (FDA Code: GZT / 882.4800) A self-retaining retractor for neurosurgery is a self-locking device used to hold the edges of a wound open during neurosurgery. |
• Neurosurgical Head Rest (FDA Code: HBM / 882.4440) A neurosurgical headrest is a device used to support the patient's head during a surgical procedure. |
• Neurosurgical Paddie (FDA Code: HBA / 882.4700) |
• Non Dental Irrigating Syringe (FDA Code: KYZ / 880.6960) An irrigating syringe is a device intended for medical purposes that consists of a bulb or a piston syringe with an integral or a detachable tube. The device is used to irrigate, withdraw fluid from, or instill fluid into, a body cavity or wound. |
• Non-Alterable Preformed Skull Bone Plate (FDA Code: GXN / 882.5330) A preformed nonalterable cranioplasty plate is a device that is implanted in a patient to repair a skull defect and is constructed of a material, e.g., stainless steel or vitallium, that cannot be altered or reshaped at the time of surgery without changing the chemical behavior of the material. |