CORNEAL VACUUM CENTERING DEVICE

摘要

This invention is a vacuum centering device (100) which may be used in conjunction with other surgical instruments in opthomological surgery. The device provides an improved interface with the eye (350) by way of features that reduce interference with a patient's eyelids intraoccular pressure and/or the propensity to rotate. These features may include a flared outer wall portion (304) which may either be curved or straight for a section, providing a low profile vacuum chamber (355), and/or the use of a non-circular outer sealing region potentially producing a saddle-shaped outer periphery providing for potentially increased vaccum exposure to the eye and a contour resistant to rotation.