Suture forming tool for securing an electrode to generally inacc

Details Suture forming tool for securing an electrode to generally inacc Suture forming tool for securing an electrode to generally inacc

1980-02-08

1981-12-22

Kamm, William E.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

128419P, A61N 100

Patent

active

043065600

ABSTRACT:
A suture forming surgical tool particularly useful in attaching an epicardial pacer electrode to the heart. The tool has an elongate body and a manually operable plunger slidable in the body. The electrode is releasably secured to a distal end of the tool. In a first portion of its travel, the plunger acts on a pair of pusher wires that each drive lengths of malleable sutures through tubular dies that have curved central bores which impart curvatures of essentially predetermined radii to the sutures. As the curved sutures are ejected from the dies they pass through the adjacent heart tissue and form circular loops which securely attach the electrode to the heart. In a second portion of its travel, the plunger detaches the electrode and its lead wire from the tool.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2960895 (1960-11-01), Hausknecht

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