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:
• AC-Powered Cast Removal Instrument (FDA Code: LGH / 888.5960) A cast removal instrument is an AC-powered, hand-held device intended to remove a cast from a patient. This generic type of device includes the electric cast cutter and cast vacuum. |
• AC-Powered Lens Measurment Instrument (FDA Code: HLM / 886.1425) A lens measuring instrument is an AC-powered device intended to measure the power of lenses, prisms, and their centers (e.g., lensometer). |
• AC-Powered Motor Orthopedic Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: HWE / 878.4820) Surgical instrument motors and accessories are AC-powered, battery-powered, or air-powered devices intended for use during surgical procedures to provide power to operate various accessories or attachments to cut hard tissue or bone and soft tissue. Accessories or attachments may include a bur, chisel (osteotome), dermabrasion brush, dermatome, drill bit, hammerhead, pin driver, and saw blade. |
• AC-Powered Operating Room Table (FDA Code: FQO / 878.4960) Operating tables and accessories and operating chairs and accessories are AC-powered or air-powered devices, usually with movable components, intended for use during diagnostic examinations or surgical procedures to support and position a patient. |
• AC-Powered Surgical Instrument Motor (FDA Code: GEY / 878.4820) |
• Acoustic Test Chamber (FDA Code: EWC / 874.1060) An acoustic chamber for audiometric testing is a room that is intended for use in conducting diagnostic hearing evaluations and that eliminates sound reflections and provides isolation from outside sounds. |
• Adenoid Curettes (FDA Code: KBJ / 874.4420) |
• Adenotomes (FDA Code: KBH / 874.4420) |
• Adult Tongue Depressor (FDA Code: FMA / 880.6230) A tongue depressor is a device intended to displace the tongue to facilitate examination of the surrounding organs and tissues. |
• Amniotome (FDA Code: HGE / 884.4530) An obstetric-gynecologic specialized manual instrument is one of a group of devices used during obstetric-gynecologic procedures to perform manipulative diagnostic and surgical functions (e.g., dilating, grasping, measuring, and scraping), where structural integrity is the chief criterion of device performance. This type of device consists of the following: |
• Amputation Knife (FDA Code: GDN / 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. |
• Anesthetic Gas Mask (FDA Code: BSJ / 868.5550) An anesthetic gas mask is a device, usually made of conductive rubber, that is positioned over a patient's nose or mouth to direct anesthetic gases to the upper airway. |
• Aneurysm Clip (FDA Code: HCH / 882.5200) An aneurysm clip is a device used to occlude an intracranial aneurysm (a balloonlike sac formed on a blood vessel) to prevent it from bleeding or bursting. |
• Aneurysm Clip Applier (FDA Code: HCI / 882.4175) An aneurysm clip applier is a device used by the surgeon for holding and applying intracranial aneurysm clips. |
• Anoscope and Accessories (FDA Code: FER / 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. |
• Antrum Perforator (FDA Code: KAT / 874.4420) |
• Antrum Punch (FDA Code: KAW / 874.4420) |
• Artery Vascular Clamp (FDA Code: DXC / 870.4450) A vascular clamp is a surgical instrument used to occlude a blood vessel temporarily. |
• Arthroscopes (FDA Code: HRX / 888.1100) An arthroscope is an electrically powered endoscope intended to make visible the interior of a joint. The arthroscope and accessories also is intended to perform surgery within a joint. |
• Arthroscopic Accessories (FDA Code: NBH / 888.1100) |
• Automatic Surgical Stapler (FDA Code: GAG / 878.4800) |
• Awl (FDA Code: HWJ / 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. |
• Battery-Operated Operating Headlamp (FDA Code: HPP / 886.4335) An operating headlamp is an AC-powered or battery-powered device intended to be worn on the user's head to provide a light source to aid visualization during surgical, diagnostic, or therapeutic procedures. |
• Bender (FDA Code: HXW / 888.4540) |
• Bending/Contouring Instrument (FDA Code: HXP / 888.4540) |
• Blood Collection Lancet (FDA Code: FMK / 878.4800) |
• Bone Clamp (FDA Code: HXD / 878.4800) |
• Bone Fixation Screw (FDA Code: HWC / 888.3040) A smooth or threaded metallic bone fixation fastener is a device intended to be implanted that consists of a stiff wire segment or rod made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum and stainless steel, and that may be smooth on the outside, fully or partially threaded, straight or U-shaped; and may be either blunt pointed, sharp pointed, or have a formed, slotted head on the end. It may be used for fixation of bone fractures, for bone reconstructions, as a guide pin for insertion of other implants, or it may be implanted through the skin so that a pulling force (traction) may be applied to the skeletal system. |
• Bone Mallets (FDA Code: HXL / 878.4800) |
• Bone Mill (FDA Code: LYS / 888.4540) |
• Bone Rasps (FDA Code: HTR / 878.4800) |
• Bone Screw Starter (FDA Code: HWD / 888.4540) |
• Bone Taps (FDA Code: HWX / 888.4540) |
• Bone Trephine (FDA Code: HWK / 888.4540) |
• Bone Wax (FDA Code: MTJ) |
• Burr Hole Cover (FDA Code: GXR / 882.5250) A burr hole cover is a plastic or metal device used to cover or plug holes drilled into the skull during surgery and to reattach cranial bone removed during surgery. |
• Calicum-Phosphate Non-Porous Metal/Polymer Uncemented Semi-Constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: MEH / 888.3353) A hip joint metal/ceramic/polymer semi-constrained cemented or nonporous uncemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a hip joint. This device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across-the-joint. The two-part femoral component consists of a femoral stem made of alloys to be fixed in the intramedullary canal of the femur by impaction with or without use of bone cement. The proximal end of the femoral stem is tapered with a surface that ensures positive locking with the spherical ceramic (aluminium oxide, A1203) head of the femoral component. The acetabular component is made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene or ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene reinforced with nonporous metal alloys, and used with or without bone cement. |
• Calipers (FDA Code: KTZ / 888.4150) A caliper for clinical use is a compass-like device intended for use in measuring the thickness or diameter of a part of the body or the distance between two body surfaces, such as for measuring an excised skeletal specimen to determine the proper replacement size of a prosthesis. |
• Cardiovascular Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: DWS / 870.4500) Cardiovascular surgical instruments are surgical instruments that have special features for use in cardiovascular surgery. These devices include, e.g., forceps, retractors, and scissors. |
• Cardiovascular Surgical Saw Blade (FDA Code: DWH / 878.4820) |
• Catheter Accessories (FDA Code: KGZ / 878.4200) An introduction/drainage catheter is a device that is a flexible single or multilumen tube intended to be used to introduce nondrug fluids into body cavities other than blood vessels, drain fluids from body cavities, or evaluate certain physiologic conditions. Examples include irrigation and drainage catheters, pediatric catheters, peritoneal catheters (including dialysis), and other general surgical catheters. An introduction/drainage catheter accessory is intended to aid in the manipulation of or insertion of the device into the body. Examples of accessories include adaptors, connectors, and catheter needles. |
• Cemented Metal/Polymer Semi-Constrained Hip Prosthesis (FDA Code: JDI / 888.3350) A hip joint metal/polymer semi-constrained cemented 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 includes prostheses that have a femoral component made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and an acetabular resurfacing component made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene and is limited to those prostheses intended for use with bone cement (888.3027). |
• Cerclage Applier (FDA Code: HXN / 888.4540) |
• Clip Removal Instrument (FDA Code: HBQ / 882.4200) A clip removal instrument is a device used to remove surgical clips from the patient. |
• Clip Surgical Applier (FDA Code: GDO / 878.4800) |
• Compression Instrument (FDA Code: HWN / 888.4540) |
• Continuous Intracranial Pressure Monitor (FDA Code: GWM / 882.1620) An intracranial pressure monitoring device is a device used for short-term monitoring and recording of intracranial pressures and pressure trends. The device includes the transducer, monitor, and interconnecting hardware. |
• Corkscrew (FDA Code: HWI / 888.4540) |
• Countersink (FDA Code: HWW / 888.4540) |
• Curettes (FDA Code: HTF / 878.4800) |