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US 5,341,922 AGranted
Peelable foil suture packaging
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsRobert Cerwin, Cheryl Trew, Robert J. Gibbs
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Abstract
A peelable foil packaging system for absorbable or pre-moistened nylon sutures which may be used to transfer the sutures into a sterile field. In a preferred embodiment, the foil package comprises two foil sections each with a polymer inner coating. The sections are sealed together enclosing a suture holding mechanism which presents a needle with attached suture for arming a needle holder.
Claims33
A suture package comprising
- a first laminate comprising a first foil section laminated on a first side with a first polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- a second laminate comprising a second foil section laminated on a first side with a second polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- wherein said first laminate and said second laminate are sealed together to form a substantially moisture impervious seal and enclose a suture between the first laminate and the second laminate and within the seal;
- wherein the first section and the second section each comprised a flap for grasping the package to peel said first section and said second section from each other;
- wherein said package may be opened to enable transferring of the suture to a desired area;
- wherein the first polymer coating and second polymer coating are heat-sealable polymers;
- wherein said first laminate and said second laminate are heat sealed together;
- and
- wherein the second polymer coating is peelable from the second foil section when the second polymer coating is heat sealed with the first polymer coating.
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A suture package comprising
- a first laminate comprising a first foil section laminated on a first side with a first polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- a second laminate comprising a second foil section laminated on a first side with a second polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- wherein said first laminate and said second laminate are sealed together to form a substantially moisture impervious seal and enclose a suture between the first laminate and the second laminate and within the seal;
- wherein the first section and the second section each comprised a flap for grasping the package to peel said first section and said second section from each other;
- wherein said package may be peeled opened to enable transferring of the suture to a desired area;
- wherein said first polymer coating comprises an extrusion coated polymer;
- and
- wherein said second polymer coating comprises a solvent based coated polymer.
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A suture package comprising
- a first laminate comprising a first foil section laminated on a first side with a first polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- a second laminate comprising a second foil section laminated on a first side with a second polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- wherein said first laminate and said second laminate are sealed together to form a substantially moisture impervious seal and enclose a suture between the first laminate and the second laminate and within the seal;
- wherein the first section and the second section each comprised a flap for grasping the package to peel said first section and said second section from each other;
- wherein said package may be opened to enable transferring of the suture to a desired area;
- wherein the enclosed suture is attached to a suture holding mechanism;
- and wherein the suture holding mechanism comprises a bottom section having a plane, and means disposed on one side of said bottom section for holding the suture and displaying the needle on said side, a portion of said bottom section underlying said needle being deflectable out of the plane of said bottom section.
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A suture package comprising
- a first laminate comprising a first foil section laminated on a first side with a first polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- a second laminate comprising a second foil section laminated on a first side with a second polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture;
- wherein said first laminate and said second laminate are sealed together to form a substantially moisture impervious seal and enclose a suture between the first laminate and the second laminate and within the seal;
- wherein the first section and the second section each comprised a flap for grasping the package to peel said first section and said second section from each other;
- wherein said package may be opened to enable transferring of the suture to a desired area
- wherein the stiffness of each of the first foil laminate and the second foil laminate is not greater than 0.017 inch pounds.
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A suture arming system comprising
- a suture package sufficiently moisture impervious for storage of moisture sensitive absorbable sutures, and
- a sterile suture holding mechanism;
- wherein said suture package comprises:
- a first laminate comprising a first foil section laminated on a first side with a first polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture,
- a second laminate comprising a second foil section laminated on a first side with a second polymer coating to form a material substantially impervious to moisture,
- wherein said first laminate and said second laminate are sealed together to form a substantially moisture impervious seal and enclose said suture holding mechanism between the first laminate and the second laminate and within the seal,
- wherein the first section and second section each comprise a flap for grasping the package to peel said first section and said second section from each other;
- wherein said package is peelable to enable a non sterile user to peel said package open so that said sterile suture holding mechanism can be transferred by the non sterile user from a non sterile area to a sterile area;
- wherein the sterile suture holding mechanism includes a displayed suture needle with an attached suture, said suture holding mechanism capable of being separated from said package when transferred to the sterile field and, and suture needle being immediately accessible to a sterile user for arming a needle holder when said suture holding mechanism is separated from the suture package into the sterile field.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.