Surgical suturing system and probe assembly

Details Surgical suturing system and probe assembly Surgical suturing system and probe assembly

1988-10-07

1990-05-22

Coven, Edward M.

Surgery

Instruments

Suture, ligature, elastic band or clip applier

604902, 433 91, 227175, A61B 1700, A61B 1704

Patent

active

049274287

ABSTRACT:
A surgical suturing system having a probe assembly for positioning tissue to be sutured and a stapling system for suturing tissue. The stapling system includes a stapler having a housing with a staple ejection slot, a magazine of preformed staples received within the housing and a driver for driving the leading staple in the magazine through the ejection slot. The probe assembly includes a holding probe in close proximity to the staple ejection slot, the probe assembly being adapted to connect with a vacuum source. A working end of the holding probe is configured to selectively hold onto and position the edges of the tissue to be sutured in juxtapositional coplanar alignment while the tissue is being sutured by a staple ejected from the stapler.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3516160 (1970-06-01), Leffler
patent: 3804089 (1974-04-01), Bridgman
patent: 3916909 (1975-11-01), Kletschka
patent: 4536180 (1985-08-01), Johnson
patent: 4627834 (1986-12-01), Lee

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