Coated surgical staple
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsHugo R. Florez, Robert J. Tannhauser
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Abstract
Sterile surgical staples for use with a stapling instrument with the surface of the staple coated with a low molecular weight fluorocarbon polymer.
Claims5
A sterile surgical staple for use with a stapling instrument in closing a wound of human or animal tissue comprising a pair of legs joined at one end by a crown with substantially the entire surface of said staple coated with a low molecular weight fluorocarbon polymer whereby it is easier to place said staple in said skin to close a wound and it is easier to remove said staple from said skin when the wound has healed.
In a surgical stapling instrument for implanting and forming surgical staples in the tissue of a patient, said instrument comprising a body, means for closing staples as they are driven into said tissue, a magazine for carrying a plurality of staples mounted on said body, and means for sequentially feeding staples from said magazine to said means for driving and closing the staples, the improvement which comprises the surface of said staples being coated with a low molecular weight fluorocarbon polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.