Metallic clamp for surgical applications

• US 20060276809A1
• Filed: 08/22/2005
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Joao Bosco De Oliveira
• Original Assignee: Joao Bosco De Oliveira
• Inventors: Oliveira, Joao Bosco de
• Application Number:
  US11/209,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20060276809A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/151
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06 Needles ; Sutures; Needle-suture combinations; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials puncturing needles A61B17/34; hypodermic needles A61M5/32 ; sewing needles D05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/823 for the sternum
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/842 Flexible wires, bands or straps A61B17/72, A61B17/82, A61B17/86 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8861 Apparatus for manipulating flexible wires or straps devices for inserting Kirschner wires A61B17/1697
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06028 by means of a cylindrical longitudinal blind bore machined at the suture-receiving end of the needle, e.g. opposite to needle tip

Abstract

A metallic clamp, also defined as metallic tape, of ordinary use during invasive surgical interventions, which receives a guide-wire element, more specifically a guide-wire element fixed to one edge of the metallic clamp, aiding in a decisive way the procedure of adequate placement close to osseous structure to be closed at the end of the surgical intervention. The metallic clamp provides for ergonomics application, producing reliability gains for a surgical procedure as a whole, bringing a technical and operational alternative to the use of steel tape elements.

Claims

1. A metallic clamp for surgical application comprising:

(a) a main body, including a first notch edge and a second notch edge;

(b) a metallic wire guide-structure including a first and a second edge, the first edge attached to the second notch edge, and

(c) a surgical needle attached the second edge of the guide-structure.

2. A method of using a metallic clamp for surgical application according to claim 1, comprising the steps of:

(i) introducing the surgical needle in an osseous element to be restored, including at least a first side and a second opposite side, in the a first side;

(ii) guiding the surgical needle to the second opposite side of the osseous element;

(iii) introducing the surgical needle in the second opposite side of the osseous element to be treated;

(iv) introducing the surgical needle, the metallic wire guide-structure and the second notch edge through the first notch edge;

(v) jointing the notch edges and by means of applying a traction force to guide-structure; and

(vi) cutting the surgical needle.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of cutting the surgical needle is performed by a pressure-cutter instrument.