Surgery – Instruments – Sutureless closure
Patent
1995-06-05
1997-09-23
Bawa, Raj
Surgery
Instruments
Sutureless closure
606 3, 606 7, 606 8, 606 10, 606 12, 606 17, 606213, 606214, 606 40, 606215, 128898, A61H 506
Patent
active
056699344
ABSTRACT:
A method for joining or restructuring tissue consists essentially of providing a preformed film or sheet of a solid filler material which fuses to tissue upon the application of energy. The material comprises collagen, gelatin, mixtures thereof, optionally combined with a plasticizer, and the film may be cut prior to placing over the tissue. Radiofrequency energy is then applied at between about 20 and 120 Watts to the filler material and the tissue after the filler material has been placed over the tissue for about 1 to 60 seconds so that about 20 to 1800 joules are delivered to the filler material and tissue.
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Bawa Raj
Fusion Medical Technologies, Inc.
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