Method for suture removal

Details Method for suture removal Method for suture removal

1975-06-26

1978-07-04

Jones, Jr., James L.

Cutting

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128305, 7158, B26D 300, B26D 1100

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040981576

ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for cutting and removing sutures with a thin, flat blade mounted on one end. The blade has a sharp, concave cutting edge and a flattened, convex bearing edge. The cutting and bearing edges converge to a sharp point at the first end of the blade and diverge towards a second end of the blade. The arc of the bearing edge is substantially equal to or less than the arc of the cutting edge. A handle is secured to the second blade end and an obtuse angle is formed between a line drawn parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle and a line tangent to the bearing edge at the point. The blade cuts sutures as the sutures are lifted from the sutured surface by the blade being rotated away from the sutured surface and linearly advanced.

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Surgical Equipment, (Madison, Wisconsin), p. 10, vol. 2, No. 3, May-Jun. 1935.

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