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Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation
353 Corporate Woods Pkwy
Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Toll Free: (800) 323-9653
Fax: (847) 913-1488

www.richardwolfusa.com

 

Milestones 2010 - 1947


Prima Vista Training Room
Prima Vista Wetlab

2010

RWMIC is very proud to announce the opening of their new training facility “Prima Vista Richard Wolf Academy” on January 25th, 2010.

 

Providing a state of art training center consisting of an 11 stations Wet Lab and a Lecture Hall which can seat up to 60 people, this facility is equipped with the latest AV equipment that among other things allows video conference and telesurgeries.


TEM - Autoclavable TEM Endoscope

2009

  • Our award winning TEM single piece Stereo Scope. This is a scope that is autoclavable, integrated documentation scope and improved optics. The only kind of its type in the market.
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ERAGON - Monopolar
ERAGON - Bipolar
  • Eragon, our revolutionary laparoscopic group of forceps. Available in both monopoar and bipolar modes. Ergonomically design for ease of use.

 

 

 

 

 


5550 HD Camera

2008

The Richard Wolf 5550 HD Camera is introduced, featuring superior picture quality and a fully autoclavable camera head.


Princess Bipolar Resectoscope
Needle Semi-Rigid Ureteroscope

2007

  • OptiFLOW Single Piece Continuous Flow Hysteroscope Sheath
  • 7mm / 21 Fr. Princess Bipolar Resectoscope
  • The autoclavable Needle Semi-rigid Ureteroscope, the first in its class to feature:
    • Small, atraumatic 4.5 / 6.5 Fr. tip and shaft measurements
    • Large 3.3 Fr. ovular irrigation and working channel
    • Rod lens-like high-density fused quartz fiber optics

eyeMax, 2006

2006

  • eyeMAX - CCD Video flexible Cystoscope
  • eyeMax - CCD Video Laparoscope
  • Chip-E-Vac Resectoscope

Resection Master 2228

2005

  • Highspeed Camera 5562 - For vocal cord analysis
  • Resection Master 2228 - For resection of myomas with integrated chip evacuation
  • 5 mm Full Screen Telescopes for general Surgery

CORE - The intelligent OR

2004

  • CORE Complete Operating Room Endoscopy
  • The intelligent OR - digital, networked, centrally controlled

Power Control 2303 - Shaver System

2003

  • Power Control 2303 - Shaver System
  • Hemer Bronchoscope

E-Line Uretero-Renoscope

2002

  • DAFE Diagnostic AutoFluorescence Endoscopy
  • E-line Uretero-Renoscope

Riwonet Voice Controled Mobile Video Unit

2001

  • Riwonet Voice controled mobile video unit
  • Ultra sound lithotriptor 2271

HMD - Head Mounted Display

1999-2000

  • HMD - Head Mounted Display
    • Personal operating monitor and extended information system with 3D and 2D image processing in high-resolution displays. Ergonomic design and voice control option.

RIWO DRIVE Generator

1998

  • Piezoson 300 for shock-wave therapy in orthopaedics
  • New generation "RIWO-DRIVE" generator, handle with shaver/knifeModular bipolar forceps
  • Wolf endoscopic spine system was introduced
  • New Telescopes:
    • 4 mm PANOVIEW PLUS for arthroscopy and sinus surgery
    • 5/7 mm PANOVIEW PLUS for gynaecological laparoscopy and
      laparoscopic surgery 
    • Instrument set for ESDP compact system with large channel
    • Instrument set fot ESVH (Endoscopic Subfascial Vein Harvesting)
    • New generation of re-usable "Metzenbaum" scissors for laparoscopic surgery

RIWO-Resectoscope E-line, 1997
Flexible fibre Urethro-Cystoscope, 1997

1997

  • RIWO-resectoscope E-line
  • MICRO und MINI system for laparoscopic microsurgery
  • MULTI-ENDOCAM 5502 for 1CCD camera or electronic CCD endoscopes
  • Modular needle holder with automatic alignment function
  • New generation flexible fibre urethro-cystoscope
  • Uretero-renoscopes with 2-channel continuous irrigation system
  • Video mediastinoscope

New Generation of Units

1996

  • PDD system for photodynamic diagnosis of bladder cancer
  • Mini laparoscope system with Veres needle
  • New generation of units
  • New ACL instrument set for arthroscopy and surgery of the anterior cruciate ligament
  • Instrument set for plastic surgery
  • Instrument set for endoscopy of the spinal column

1995

  • "Oval high-performance resectoscope"
  • Autoclavable fibre uretero-renoscopes

Automatic Trocar Sleeves with Magnetic Ball Valve

1994

  • Establishment of the subsidiary Richard WOLF Austria Ges.m.b.H.
  • Automatic trocar sleeves with magnetic ball valve
  • Continuous-irrigation hysteroscope, 15 Fr. with straight instrument channel

Neuro-Endoscope System

1993

  • 3CCD endocamera
  • 3D video system with stereo telescope
  • Modular forceps and scissors system
  • Neuro-endoscope system
  • PANOVIEW PLUS laparoscopes, with no distortion

1988

Compact fibre uretero-renoscope, 6/7.5 Fr., channel 4 Fr.


1986

  • Digital CCD endocamera
  • Piezolith 2200 with ultrasound location

Instrument Set for Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery

1983

  • Operating uretero-renoscope
  • Instrument set for transanal endoscopic microsurgery
  • Instrument set for surgery of the paranasal sinuses and anterior base of the skull

1982

2/3" tube colour endocamera.


1980-1981

Uretero-renoscope with ultrasound lithotripsy under X-ray control.


1979

WOLF Riwolith for electrohydraulic fragmentation of urinary stones.


Resectoscope

1975

  • Iglesias resectoscope with continuous irrigation
  • Magnifying laryngo-pharyngoscope

1971-1979

Establishment of Wolf subsidiaries:

  • 1979 Heynemann GmbH, Munich
  • Kurt Semrau GmbH, Tuttlingen
  • Richard WOLF Medical Instruments Corp., Vernon Hills, Illinois, USA
  • N.V. Endoscopie
  • Richard WOLF Belgium S.A., Gent-Drongen
  • Richard WOLF France S.A.R.L., Reims
  • Richard WOLF U.K. Ltd., Wimbledon

Lumina Rod Lens Telescope

1968

  • Establishment of the Richard and Annemarie WOLF Foundation
  • Development of the modern lumina rod lens telescope

1963

Introduction of "cold light" illumination for endoscopes.

 


1961

Photo-cystoscope with intracorporeal electronic flash tube.


Television Transmission

1958

First television transmissions of endoscopic images.


Endoscopic Color Films

1957

First endoscopic color films with Wolf instruments.


Resectoscope Type 782

1954

  • Resectoscope Type 782 with pistol handle, 360° rotatable
  • Color photographs of the liver with the photo-laparoscope

1947

On January 15th, 1947, Richard WOLF GmbH was founded in Knittlingen.


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