# K022475: Modification to Arthrocare Controller (System 2000 and 8000), Arthrocare Patient Cable, Foot Control, Power Cord, Wands

- Pathway: 510(k) (Special)
- Applicant: Arthrocare Corp.
- Decided: Oct 3, 2002 after 66 days
- Product code: GEI (Electrosurgical, Cutting & Coagulation & Accessories)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 878.4400
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 8 generations back to K936109 (1994). 28 ancestors in all.
No later device cites it as a predicate yet.
0 of 29 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K020622: Arthrocare Controller (System 2000 and 8000); Arthrocare Cable; Foot Control; Power Cord; and Wands, Arthrocare Corp. (2002). Our reading of the summary gave K020662, FDA’s number for Modification to Vitros Immunodiagnostic Products Troponin… (Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics). Corrected to the number one digit away whose FDA name carries the summary’s words for the device, “ArthroCare Electrosurgery Wands”. Summary page 1.

## Indications for use
The Electrosurgery Wands are indicated for resection, ablation, and coagulation of soft tissue and hemostasis of blood vessels in open, laparoscopic, and endoscopic general surgery and general gynecology procedures. Representative procedures include the following: General Surgery cholecystectomy lysis of adhesions thyroidectomy herniorrhaphy removal of lesions removal of polyps salpingo-oophorectomy burch colposuspension myomectomy endometriosis ovariohysterectomy removal of tumors

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K022475
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology