Stapler device particularly useful in medical suturing
AssigneeTechnion Research & Development Foundation Limited
InventorsMordechai Beyar, Amnon Foux
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Abstract
A stapler device includes a manually grippable handle containing a drive and a trigger to activate the drive mechanism, a barrel fixed to the handle, a guide for holding a staple to be ejected and formed to accommodate a suture thread fixed to the staple, and an ejector driven by the drive through the barrel for ejecting a staple out through the guide into a bone to enable the suture, so anchored to the bone, to be used for various medical operations.
Claims27
A device for implanting a self-tapping staple having attached suture thread into the bone of a patient comprising:
- a handle;
- a barrel having a proximal end and a distal end, said proximal end being secured to said handle;
- a staple guide for holding a staple, said staple guide being secured to said distal end of said barrel, the outer end of said staple guide being formed with a bore and a recess, said bore receiving a staple and said recess in communication with said bore physically accommodating the suture thread;
- a power drive means for generating staple-ejecting and driving force into a bone, said force being sufficient to completely implant the staple into the bone and under the surface of the bone of a patient without predrilling a hole in the bone;
- an ejector pin in communication with said power drive means and transmitting said force from said power drive means to the staple held in said staple guide;
- and,
- a trigger connected to said power drive means.
A method of treating a female patient for urinary stress incontinence, comprising:
- inserting a bone anchor comprising a suture thread secured thereto through the vaginal wall of the patient to enter the pubic bone, and using said suture thread for securing soft tissue of the peri-urethral area to the posterior wall of the pubic bone to thereby adjust the anatomic position of the bladder neck and the urethra of the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.