Special receptacle or package – For body treatment article or material – Ligatures
Patent
1993-09-20
1995-05-09
Gehman, Bryon P.
Special receptacle or package
For body treatment article or material
Ligatures
206388, 206478, A61B 1706, B65D 6510
Patent
active
054132142
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a suture holder for a plurality of individually removable strands, in particular surgical suture materials, wherein the strands are carried in parallel paths through surrounding hollow tubular members, the paths running through the hollow members in pairs and the path pairs being separated from one another by the hollow members.
Such a suture holder is disclosed in, for example, DE 30 27 836 A1. In this suture holder hollow rectangular members, which are arranged parallel to one another and in which the strands are guided, are formed. To prevent entanglement of the strands, only one strand is arranged in each hollow member, specifically, running through the hollow member in two parallel paths.
Although such completely separate guidance of the individual strands ensures relatively good individual removal without interfering with the remaining strands, this known suture holder is suitable only for sutures which are short in length, since otherwise the length and hence the size of the holder increases so that handling in the operating room is severely restricted or made impossible because of the great amount of space required.
In the past, therefore, it has always been sought to design such suture holders, suture packs, dispenser packs or the like for a plurality of individually removable sutures so that the size of the assembly is as independent as possible of suture length, suture thickness and number of sutures. Numerous accomplishments are known in which the sutures are laid inside a container in loops Common to all of these accomplishments is the problem that reliable removal of an individual strand cannot be sufficiently guaranteed. Problems recur repeatedly, particularly with very long and relatively thin sutures, so that individual packs are often selected for these sutures.
Such an individual suture pack is disclosed, for example, in EP 0,168,172 B1. The suture holder described there guides the suture, laid double and winding sinuously in parallel paths, through the suture holder. A reversal of direction at the end of the holder causes both ends of the strand to emerge at the entrance of the holder. However, this suture holder is provided and is suitable for accommodating only a single suture.
Starting from the state of the art mentioned at the beginning, the object of the invention is to design a generic suture holder for a plurality of sutures so that even relatively long and/or thin sutures can be stored compactly and removed individually with the necessary dependability without risk of entanglement.
According to the invention, this object is accomplished, in a suture holder for a plurality of individually removable strands, by guiding the strands in parallel paths through surrounding hollow tubular members, the path running through the hollow members in pairs and the pairs of paths being separated from one another by the hollow members, wherein that the sutures are guided as a bundle of strands winding sinuously through the suture holder in the same paths with multiple changes of direction, and wherein the strands are supported in the reversing region of adjacent hollow members by a wall arranged transverse to the parallel paths.
The suture holder according to the invention may be designed as one piece or as a plurality of pieces, and parts of the packaging may alternatively belong to the suture holder within the meaning of the invention.
The suture holder according to the invention permits compact and at the same time more accessible arrangement of a plurality of sutures of virtually unlimited length as well as of small thickness. In particular, with the suture holder according to the invention even sutures which hitherto have always had to be handled in individual holders or individual packs may alternatively be arranged compactly in multiples in a minimum of space. At the same time, the suture holder according to the invention does not require the sutures to be laid in any particular order or one after the other; they may be arranged as desired and, within limits, even b
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Deknatel Medizinische Produkte GmbH
Gehman Bryon P.
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