Clamp for holding surgical lines

Details Clamp for holding surgical lines Clamp for holding surgical lines

1983-08-05

1986-09-16

Thaler, Michael H.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

128346, 269257, A61B 1728

Patent

active

046115927

ABSTRACT:
A scissors-type surgical clamp is disclosed, characterized by a recess-defining offset in the clamping portion thereof for holding suction lines, electrical lines, and the like. The clamp includes a pair of resilient, coplanar arm members which are pivotally connected for relative displacement between open and closed positions about a pivot axis arranged normal to the plane defined by the arm members. Each of the arm members includes gripping and clamping portions on opposite sides of the pivot axis. A locking device is provided to lock the gripping portions of the arm members together in a resiliently deformed overcenter condition in which the arm member clamping portions are forced together. The offset is provided in the clamping portion of one of the arm members and extends in a direction normal to the plane of the arm members to define at least one recess having a depth greater than the thickness of the clamping portion of the other arm member. When a suction line or the like is arranged in the recess and when the gripping portions of the clamp are locked together to secure the clamping portions to a surgical curtain or the like, the suction line is retained in the recess by the offset of the one arm member and by the clamping portion of the other arm member.

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