← Product Code [GCJ](/submissions/GU/subpart-b%E2%80%94diagnostic-devices/GCJ) · K091697 # SPIDER SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, MODELS 90004, 90005, 90007, 90009, 90010, 90012, 90013, 90015 (K091697) _Transenterix, Inc. · GCJ · Sep 28, 2009 · Gastroenterology, Urology · SESE_ **Canonical URL:** https://fda.innolitics.com/submissions/SU/subpart-b%E2%80%94diagnostic-devices/GCJ/K091697 ## Device Facts - **Applicant:** Transenterix, Inc. - **Product Code:** [GCJ](/submissions/GU/subpart-b%E2%80%94diagnostic-devices/GCJ.md) - **Decision Date:** Sep 28, 2009 - **Decision:** SESE - **Submission Type:** Traditional - **Regulation:** 21 CFR 876.1500 - **Device Class:** Class 2 - **Review Panel:** Gastroenterology, Urology - **Attributes:** Therapeutic ## Indications for Use The SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments are intended for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures for grasping, mobilizing, dissecting, retracting, cutting, cauterizing, ligating, suction/irrigation and other manipulation of tissues and vessels during a laparoscopic procedure under direct and/or endoscopic visualization. ## Device Story SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments are a set of rigid and flexible laparoscopic tools designed for use with the SPIDER™ Single Port Device or other laparoscopic access systems. The set includes graspers, dissecting forceps, scissors, clip appliers, suction/irrigation probes, and monopolar electrocautery instruments. Rigid instruments are reusable and require autoclaving; flexible instruments are single-use and ethylene oxide sterilized. Operated by surgeons in an OR setting, these instruments are advanced through cannulas to the surgical site to perform standard laparoscopic tasks. The devices provide mechanical or electrosurgical tissue manipulation under direct or endoscopic visualization. They function similarly to conventional laparoscopic instruments, allowing surgeons to perform standard surgical maneuvers. Benefits include facilitating access and manipulation within the surgical space during minimally invasive procedures. ## Clinical Evidence No clinical data provided; bench testing only. ## Technological Characteristics Manual laparoscopic surgical instruments. Materials include standard medical-grade components suitable for abdominal surgery. Designed for single-port access with extended reach capabilities. Sterilization via standard methods for reusable surgical instruments. No software or electronic components. ## Regulatory Identification 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. ## Special Controls *Classification* —(1)*Class II (special controls).* The device, when it is an endoscope disinfectant basin, which consists solely of a container that holds disinfectant and endoscopes and accessories; an endoscopic magnetic retriever intended for single use; sterile scissors for cystoscope intended for single use; a disposable, non-powered endoscopic grasping/cutting instrument intended for single use; a diagnostic incandescent light source; a fiberoptic photographic light source; a routine fiberoptic light source; an endoscopic sponge carrier; a xenon arc endoscope light source; an endoscope transformer; an LED light source; or a gastroenterology-urology endoscopic guidewire, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 876.9.(2) Class I for the photographic accessories for endoscope, miscellaneous bulb adapter for endoscope, binocular attachment for endoscope, eyepiece attachment for prescription lens, teaching attachment, inflation bulb, measuring device for panendoscope, photographic equipment for physiologic function monitor, special lens instrument for endoscope, smoke removal tube, rechargeable battery box, pocket battery box, bite block for endoscope, and cleaning brush for endoscope. The devices subject to this paragraph (b)(2) are exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807of this chapter, subject to the limitations in § 876.9. ## Submission Summary (Full Text) > This content was OCRed from public FDA records by [Innolitics](https://innolitics.com). If you use, quote, summarize, crawl, or train on this content, cite Innolitics at https://innolitics.com. > > Innolitics is a medical-device software consultancy. We help companies design, build, and clear FDA-regulated software and AI/ML devices, including [a 510(k)](https://innolitics.com/services/510ks/), [a De Novo](https://innolitics.com/services/regulatory/), [a SaMD](https://innolitics.com/services/end-to-end-samd/), [an AI/ML medical device](https://innolitics.com/services/medical-imaging-ai-development/), or [an FDA regulatory strategy](https://innolitics.com/services/regulatory/). {0} DJA #00292 # 510(k) Summary This summary of safety and effectiveness information is being submitted in accordance with requirements of 21 CFR Part 807.92. Date: June 8, 2009 ## 1. Submitter: Submitted by: TransEnterix, Inc. 3908 Patriot Drive, Suite 170 Durham, NC 27703 TEL: 919-541-9977 FAX: 919-541-9978 Contact: Tammy Carrea Director, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance ## 2. Device: Propriety Name: SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments Common Name: Laparoscopic instrument and accessory Classification Name: Endoscope and accessories Classification: Class II 21 CFR 876.1500 Product Code: GCJ ## 3. Predicate Device: Snowden-Pencer Reusable Laparoscopic Instruments Olympus: FG Series Grasping Forceps and Surgical Scissors Novare: RealHand High Dexterity Instruments Weck: Hem-O-Lok™ Ligating Clip Applier US Surgical Autosuture™ Endo Clip III Clip Applier Cabot Medical: Surgiflex Wave Suction Irrigation Probe ## 4. Description: The SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments are surgical instruments to facilitate laparoscopic surgery. They are intended for use with the SPIDER™ Single Port Device or other laparoscopic access device that facilitates the use of rigid and/or flexible instrumentation. The surgical instruments may be categorized as follows: - Rigid instruments - Flexible instruments - Flexible Electrocautery or energy instruments ### 1. Rigid Surgical Instruments Page 1 of 3 {1} Page 2 of 3 The rigid instrument set includes a rigid grasper for grasping, mobilizing, or retracting tissue. It is a re-usable device that is provided to the user non-sterile with instructions for cleaning and autoclaving. ## 2. Flexible Instruments The flexible instruments are pre-sterilized, single use disposable devices. The devices are ethylene oxide sterilized. The flexible instrument set includes: - Flexible grasping forceps for grasping, mobilizing, or retracting tissue - Flexible dissecting forceps for dissecting tissue - Flexible scissors for cutting tissue - Flexible 5mm clip applicer for ligation - Flexible suction/irrigation probe to deliver sterile irrigation fluids and evacuate blood, tissue debris, and smoke from the surgical site ## 3. Flexible Electrocautery Instruments The flexible electrocautery instruments are pre-sterilized, single use disposable devices. The devices are ethylene oxide sterilized. The electrocautery instrument set includes: - Flexible monopolar electrocautery instruments for cutting and coagulation of tissue ## 5. Indications for Use: The SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments are intended for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures for grasping, mobilizing, dissecting, retracting, cutting, cauterizing, ligating, suction/irrigation and other manipulation of tissues and vessels during a laparoscopic procedure under direct and/or endoscopic visualization. ## 6. Comparison of Technological Characteristics with Predicate: The SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments have the same intended use and function of other currently marketed laparoscopic and endoscopic surgical instruments. Like the predicates the instruments have the same end effecter/jaw/tip designs. The devices achieve the same function using the same modes of action. The rigid and flexible instruments are passed through the TransEnterix cannulas (IDTs) and advanced to the surgical site, exactly in the same manner as other surgical devices are passed through conventional trocars/cannulas used in standard single port or multi-port laparoscopic surgery. The SPIDER™ Flexible Instruments utilize the same or similar design, dimensions, materials of construction, and sterilization as that of the predicates. Similar to the predicate devices the SPIDER™ Flexible Instruments are provided pre-sterilized, are disposable, and are single use devices, the same as other predicate devices. Similar to the predicate devices the SPIDER™ Rigid Grasper is provided non-sterilize and is cleaned and autoclaved between uses the same as the predicate device. {2} DJA 200294 The flexible design and length of the SPIDER™ Flexible Instruments are essentially the same as other predicate devices currently marketed. The design of the devices, in terms of length and flexibility, allows both groups of devices to achieve access to the surgical space through a trocar and perform their intended functions in a similar manner. The slight difference in shaft length does not present any new issues of safety or efficacy. Any technological differences between the SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments and the predicates have been mitigated via testing. Thus the SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments do not introduce any new issues of safety or effectiveness compared to other similar laparoscopic or endoscopic surgical devices currently marketed. ## 7. Performance Data: The SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments have been functionally tested in bench top simulation studies and found to perform their intended functions for laparoscopic surgical procedures. The SPIDER™ Flexible Instruments have been tested for sterility using ethylene oxide to demonstrate the ability to sterilize and produce a sterility assurance level of 1×10⁻⁶. The SPIDER™ Rigid Grasper has been tested for cleaning and autoclave sterilization to assure safety of multiple uses. The SPIDER™ Instruments have been tested for biocompatibility in accordance with ISO 10993-1 based on type and duration of contact to assure that they are non-cytoxic, non-sensitizing and non-irritating. The SPIDER™ Electrocautery Instruments have been tested for compliance to IEC 60601-2-2 and found to be capable of operation up to a maximum voltage of 3500 Volts peak. The SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments have been tested in a pre-clinical swine study to compare their performance to that of standard laparoscopic instruments and to assure their performance and success in laparoscopic procedures. When compared to the predicate devices, the SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments do not incorporate any significant technological differences that affect safety and efficacy, therefore, clinical data was not deemed necessary for evaluation of substantial equivalence. These verification and validation test results are sufficient to demonstrate safety and effectiveness compared to predicate devices used in standard laparoscopic surgical techniques. Any minor technological differences in the design or materials of the SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments have been evaluated and found to present no new issues of safety and effectiveness. ## 8. Conclusion: The conclusion drawn from the test data is that the SPIDER™ Surgical Instruments are as safe and effective as the predicate devices, perform similarly to other legally marketed predicate devices for laparoscopic surgery, and do not raise any new issues of safety or effectiveness. Page 3 of 3 --- **Source:** [https://fda.innolitics.com/submissions/SU/subpart-b%E2%80%94diagnostic-devices/GCJ/K091697](https://fda.innolitics.com/submissions/SU/subpart-b%E2%80%94diagnostic-devices/GCJ/K091697) **Published by [Innolitics](https://innolitics.com)** — a medical-device software consultancy. 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