Surgical Instruments for Insertion of Surgical Mesh and Related Methods
AssigneeWinbock Medical LLC
InventorsJeffrey Ben Winter, Samuel Richard Zarbock, Trey Scott Winter
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Abstract
A surgical instrument for use in inserting a flexible sheet within a patient includes a tube having a sidewall with an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface that extend between a proximal end and an opposing distal end, the proximal end terminating at a proximal end face and the distal end terminating at a distal end face, a slot passing through the sidewall of the tube between the interior surface and the exterior surface and extending along an entire length of the tube between the proximal end face and the distal end face, the interior surface bounding a passage extending through the tube. A handle projects from the tube at or toward the proximal end.
Claims20
A surgical instrument for use in inserting a flexible sheet within a patient, the surgical instrument, comprising:
- a tube having a sidewall with an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface that extend between a proximal end and an opposing distal end, the proximal end terminating at a proximal end face and the distal end terminating at a distal end face, a slot passing through the sidewall of the tube between the interior surface and the exterior surface and extending along an entire length of the tube between the proximal end face and the distal end face, the interior surface bounding a passage extending through the tube;
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- a handle projecting from the tube at or toward the proximal end.
A surgical instrument for use in inserting a flexible sheet within a patient, the surgical instrument, comprising:
- a tube having a sidewall with an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface that extend between a proximal end and an opposing distal end, the proximal end terminating at a proximal end face and the distal end terminating at a distal end face, a slot passing through the sidewall of the tube between the interior surface and the exterior surface and extending along at least a portion of a length of the tube between the proximal end face and the distal end face, the interior surface bounding a passage extending through the tube;
- a notch extending through the sidewall at the distal end of the tube and passing through the distal end face;
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- a handle projecting from the tube at or toward the proximal end.
A method for deploying a sheet of surgical mesh, the method comprising:
- securing a first portion of a sheet of surgical mesh to a distal end of a tube of a surgical instrument, the tube having a sidewall with an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface that extend between a proximal end and the opposing distal end, the proximal end terminating at a proximal end face and the distal end terminating at a distal end face, a slot passing through the sidewall of the tube between the interior surface and the exterior surface and extending along at least a portion of a length of the tube between the proximal end face and the distal end face, the interior surface bounding a passage extending through the tube;
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- passing a second portion of the sheet through the slot of the tube and into the passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.