Surgical instrument e.g. bipolar-combination instrument, for use as e.g. tubular shaft instrument, has cutting and clamping units, where units are brought into cleaning position in which clamping unit releases cutting unit

摘要

The instrument has a clamping device (12) for holding a thread (156), and a cutting device (14) for cutting of the thread, where the clamping device has two clamping units (68, 92) that are movably arranged relative to each other. The cutting device has a cutting unit (48) and the clamping unit (68), which are movable relative to each other and are brought into a cutting position for cutting the thread. The cutting unit (48) and the clamping unit (92) are brought into a cleaning position, where the clamping unit (92) completely releases the cutting unit (48) in the cleaning position.