US 10,945,720 B2 · Systems and methods for closing incisions formed in fragile tissue

Abstract

A method of reinforcing subcutaneous fragile tissue includes obtaining an absorbable surgical mesh having top and bottom major surfaces, the absorbable surgical mesh including a stitching zone and first and second reinforcing zones that bound opposite sides of the stitching zone. The method includes making an incision in a patient's skin for exposing subcutaneous fragile tissue, using one or more absorbable adhesives for adhering the bottom major surface of the absorbable surgical mesh to the subcutaneous fragile tissue, creating an incision through the stitching zone of the absorbable surgical mesh and into the subcutaneous fragile tissue, performing a surgical procedure through the incision, and passing an absorbable suture through the stitching zone of the absorbable surgical mesh and the fragile tissue for closing the incision.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of reinforcing subcutaneous fragile tissue comprising:

obtaining a reinforcing incision drape having top and bottom major faces;
using an adhesive for directly adhering said bottom major face of said reinforcing incision drape to subcutaneous fragile tissue;
creating an incision through said reinforcing incision drape and into said subcutaneous fragile tissue;
performing a surgical procedure through said incision;
passing a surgical closing component through said reinforcing incision drape and said subcutaneous fragile tissue for closing said incision.

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A method of reinforcing subcutaneous fragile tissue comprising:

obtaining an absorbable surgical mesh having top and bottom major surfaces, said absorbable surgical mesh including a stitching zone and first and second reinforcing zones that bound opposite sides of said stitching zone;
making an incision in a patient's skin for exposing subcutaneous fragile tissue;
using one or more absorbable adhesives for directly adhering said bottom major surface of said absorbable surgical mesh to said subcutaneous fragile tissue;
creating an incision through said stitching zone of said absorbable surgical mesh that is directly adhered to said subcutaneous fragile tissue and into said subcutaneous fragile tissue;
performing a surgical procedure through said incision;
passing an absorbable suture through said stitching zone of said absorbable surgical mesh that is directly adhered to said subcutaneous fragile tissue and said subcutaneous fragile tissue for closing said incision.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/703,344Filed 13 Sep 2017

Published

US 2019/0076140 A114 Mar 2019

Granted

16 Mar 2021

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

A61B 17/0466
For suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: suture bridges
A61B 17/04
Surgical instruments, devices or methods: for suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials
A61B 17/085
Wound clamps or clips, i.e. not or only partly penetrating the tissue ; Devices for bringing together the edges of a wound: with adhesive layer
A61B 17/06166
Needles ; Sutures; Needle-suture combinations; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: sutures

Systems and methods for closing incisions formed in fragile tissue

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Systems and methods for closing incisions formed in fragile tissue

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Abstract

Claims20