Title:
縫合装置、システム及び方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009514562
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
Improved medical suturing devices, systems, and methods may hold a suture needle at a fixed location relative to a handle of the device, allowing the surgeon to grasp and manipulate the handle of the suturing device to insert the needle through tissues in a manner analogous to use of a standard needle gripper. Cycling the handle from a closed position to an open position and back to the closed position may alternate the device between gripping the needle with a first clamp (for example, along a proximal portion of the needle) to gripping the needle with a second clamp (for example, along a distal portion of the needle) and optionally back to gripping with the first clamp, with the needle often staying at a substantially fixed location relative to the suturing device body. Related single-clamp needle grasping devices can be bent plastically by a surgeon, and/or have bodies that are grasped by a hand while a portion of the hand actuates a handle.
Inventors:
Henry H. Hamilton
Bellman, lily
Zachuryukin, Alexander Borisovic
Moore, Patricia A
Bellman, lily
Zachuryukin, Alexander Borisovic
Moore, Patricia A
Application Number:
JP2008531316A
Publication Date:
April 09, 2009
Filing Date:
September 13, 2006
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Laffis Medical Incorporated
International Classes:
A61B17/06
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2002501413A | 2002-01-15 |
Foreign References:
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masaki Yamakawa
Shigeki Yamakawa
Shigeki Yamakawa