Assistive device for scalp suturing
AssigneeSeoul National University Hospital
InventorsDong Bum Suh, Dae Kon Kim
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Abstract
An assistive device for scalp suturing that allows the hair apposition technique (HAT) procedure to be easily performed even by a single operator. The assistive device for scalp suturing includes: a housing including a frame formed in a circular or polygonal shape having a slot therein and a mounting groove formed on at least some areas of the frame, wherein the slot is positioned at a scalp laceration site; a plurality of knot holes provided on at least some areas of an outer side of the housing; and first and second hair fixers detachably mounted on the mounting groove of the housing and configured to fix hair around the scalp laceration site.
Claims7
An assistive device for scalp suturing for patients with scalp lacerations, the assistive device comprising:
- a housing including a frame formed in a circular or polygonal shape having a slot therein and two mounting grooves formed at the frame and disposed to face each other with the slot disposed therebetween, wherein the slot is positioned at a scalp laceration site;
- a plurality of knot holes provided on at least some areas of an outer side of the housing;
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- first and second hair fixers each of which is detachably mounted on one of the two mounting grooves of the housing and configured to fix hair around the scalp laceration site,
- wherein the first and second hair fixers each include:
- a mounting portion fitted and coupled to the mounting groove of the housing and having a protruding portion protruding past the frame;
- and a fixing plate coupled to or decoupled from the mounting portion and having an insertion groove into which at least a partial area of the protruding portion is inserted in a state in which the fixing plate is coupled to the mounting portion,
- wherein, in a state in which the hair around the scalp laceration site is placed on the protruding portion, when the mounting portion and the fixing plate are coupled, the hair is fitted and fixed between the protruding portion and the insertion groove,
- wherein one surface of the frame that comes in contact with the scalp is curved to come in close contact with the scalp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.