Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods for passing multiple sutures through tissue
- Patent Title (中): 通过组织多次缝合的方法
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Application No.: US13731323Application Date: 2012-12-31
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Publication No.: US09271722B2Publication Date: 2016-03-01
- Inventor: John R. Cournoyer , Howard Tang
- Applicant: DePuy Mitek, LLC
- Applicant Address: CH Le Locle
- Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL
- Current Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL
- Current Assignee Address: CH Le Locle
- Main IPC: A61B17/04
- IPC: A61B17/04 ; A61B17/062 ; A61B17/06

Abstract:
Methods for passing multiple sutures through tissue are provided herein. In particular, the methods described herein allow multiple sutures to be passed through tissue without removing a suture passing instrument from a patient's body. In one embodiment, a method for passing a suture through tissue is provided that includes loading first and second suture limbs into a suture passing instrument, positioning the instrument within a patient's body, actuating the instrument to pass a portion of the first suture limb through the tissue, pulling the first suture limb through the tissue, pulling the second suture limb to reload the suture passing instrument without removing the instrument from the patient's body, actuating the instrument a second time to pass a portion of the second suture limb through the tissue, and pulling the second suture limb through the tissue.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140188136A1 METHODS FOR PASSING MULTIPLE SUTURES THROUGH TISSUE Public/Granted day:2014-07-03
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