US 2019/0290261 A1Published application

Suture clip deployment devices

AssigneeEdwards Lifesciences Corporation

InventorsTravis Zenyo Oba, Michael C. Murad, Manouchehr A. Miraki, Anthony P. Carcia, Fabian Daniel Schroeder, Raffaele Mazzei, Tyler Douglas Smith

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Abstract

Suture clip deployment devices for applying suture clips to sutures are described. Some embodiments can include a generally tubular main body and a vacuum port located at the distal end, a hollow inner body longitudinally slidable within the main body and extending from the main body at its distal end, and a suture recess located in the generally tubular main body. At least one suture clip configured to frictionally fit on an outer surface of the inner body is deployed during use. Clip deployment can occur after a vacuum source is applied to the device so as to draw the suture into the device. The suture lines can be retrieved through the suture recess, and the device can be actuated so as to deliver the suture clip off the delivery device and onto the suture, locking the suture in place.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A method for deploying suture clips onto sutures, comprising;

causing a free end of a suture to enter into a distal end portion of a main shaft of a suture clip deployment device;
causing the main shaft to move proximally relative to a handle portion of the suture clip deployment device, a first suture clip mounted around an outer surface of the main shaft and a second suture clip mounted around the outer surface of the main shaft proximal to the first suture clip, such that the first suture clip moves off of a distal end of the main shaft and onto the suture and resiliently secures to the suture, and such that the second suture clip moves toward the distal end of the main shaft;
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after the first suture clip is secured to the suture, causing the main shaft and the second suture clip to move distally together relative to the handle portion such that the suture clip deployment device is ready to deploy the second suture clip onto another suture by subsequent proximal motion of the main shaft relative to the handle portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/436,829Filed 10 Jun 2019
Priority: 22 Dec 2011
Published: 26 Sep 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

A61B 17/0487
For suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: suture clamps, clips or locks, e.g. for replacing suture knots;…
A61B 1/04
Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g.…:…
A61B 17/0467
For suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: instruments for cutting sutures
A61B 17/0469
For suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: suturing instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g.…

Family

Application61/579,497Us provisional application · filed 22 Dec 2011
Application13/715,640Continuation · filed 14 Dec 2012
Application14/658,575Continuation · filed 16 Mar 2015
Application15/385,203Division · filed 20 Dec 2016
Application16/436,829Division
Application15/385,203Continuation
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