Sizing and positioning adapter for medical instruments
AssigneeAbbott Laboratories
InventorsLaveille Kao Voss, Erik Kristian Walberg
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Abstract
In accordance with the present invention there is provided apparatuses and methods for using a medical instrument including a sizing and positioning adapter. The apparatus comprises an adapter for a medical instrument, the adapt having a body having a shim portion and an instrument holding portion adjacent the shim portion, wherein the shim portion provides an enlarged peripheral surface adjacent the medical instrument such that when the medical instrument is held in the instrument holding portion and the medical instrument and body are inserted through an opening in a patient tissue, at least a portion of the enlarged peripheral surface is in contact with at least a portion of the periphery of the opening in the patient tissue.
Claims19
A method of closing a body opening in tissue, comprising:
- advancing a distal end of a first suture device through an opening in a tissue wall;
- applying a first suture across the opening in the tissue wall;
- retracting the first suture device from the tissue wall;
- advancing a distal end of second suture device through the opening in the tissue wall;
- and applying a second suture across the opening from the second suture device.
A method of closing a body opening in tissue, comprising:
- advancing a distal end of a first suture device through an opening in a tissue wall and positioning a first adapter within the opening, the first adapter being supported by the first suture device;
- applying a first suture across the opening in the tissue wall;
- retracting the first suture device from the tissue wall;
- and
- advancing a distal end of second suture device through the opening in the tissue wall and positioning a second adapter within the opening, the second adapter being supported by the second suture device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.