RELOADABLE LAPAROSCOPIC FASTENER DEPLOYING DEVICE WITH DISPOSABLE CARTRIDGE FOR USE IN A GASTRIC VOLUME REDUCTION PROCEDURE

• US 20100023024A1
• Filed: 07/25/2008
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Ortiz, Mark S., Harris, Jason L., Stokes, Michael J., Zeiner, Mark S., Crainich, Lawrence, Holcomb, Matthew D., Kondor, Alex P.
• Application Number:
  US12/179,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20100023024A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/144
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0401 Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors A61B17/0642 takes precedence; fixation devices for tendons or ligaments A61F2/0811
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0467 Instruments for cutting sutures surgical cutting instruments A61B17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0469 Suturing instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0482 Needle or suture guides guides for drills, pins or wire A61B17/17; for puncturing needles A61B17/3403
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0493 Protective devices for suturing, i.e. for protecting the patient's organs or the operator
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3498 Valves therefor, e.g. flapper valves, slide valves haemostasis valves A61M39/06; check valves A61M39/24
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/003 Steerable
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00477 Coupling A61B2017/0046 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00526 Methods of manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0053 Loading magazines or sutures into applying tools
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00818 Treatment of the gastro-intestinal system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0409 Instruments for applying suture anchors for applying suture clamps, clips or locks A61B2017/0488
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0417 T-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0475 using sutures having a slip knot
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0477 with pre-tied sutures
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0496 for tensioning sutures
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06052 Needle-suture combinations in which a suture is extending inside a hollow tubular needle, e.g. over the entire length of the needle hollow suture needles A61B2017/061
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2916 pins in guiding slots
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/292 connection of actuating rod to handle, e.g. ball end in recess
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2923 : Toothed members, e.g. rack and pinion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/92 : coded with colour
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/94 : coded with symbols, e.g. text

Abstract

A reloadable device for deploying fasteners. The device has a handle and at least one actuator. The handle is connected to an elongated hollow housing having distal and proximal ends. The device has a first cartridge containing at least one fastener releasably connectable to the handle. The fastener has at least two anchors connected together by a non-resilient flexible suture which does not resist deformation under compressible loads. The device also includes a means, adjacent the handle, for facilitating removal of the first cartridge from the handle and replacing it with a second cartridge.

Claims

1. A reloadable device for deploying fasteners comprising:

a. a handle and at least one actuator;

b. said handle connected to an elongated hollow housing having distal and proximal ends;

c. a first cartridge containing at least one fastener releasably connectable to said handle;

d. said fastener comprising at least two anchors connected together by a non-resilient flexible suture which does not resist deformation under compressible loads; and

e. a means, adjacent said handle, for facilitating removal of said first cartridge from said handle and replacing it with a second cartridge.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein said cartridge further includes a needle within said hollow housing for deploying said fastener

3. The device of claim 2 wherein said needle is off set from a center of said housing.

4. The device of claim 2 wherein said needle has a slot extending from a distal end at least partially back towards a proximal end of said needle.

5. The device of claim 2 wherein said needle has a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis which is non-circular.

6. The device of claim 2 wherein at least one of said needle and said hollow housing is movable relative to the other, said needle having a retracted position, where a distal end of said needle is entirely within said housing, and an exposed position wherein said distal end of said needle is distal to said distal end of said hollow housing.

7. The device of claim 6 further including a lock for maintaining said needle in said retracted position.

8. The device of claim 1 wherein said cartridge contains multiple fasteners.

9. The device of claim 6 wherein said sutures of said fasteners extend to said proximal end of said hollow housing, said cartridge further including a means at said proximal end of said device for separately manipulating each suture individually.

10. The device of claim 8 further including a means at said proximal end of said cartridge for distinguishing one suture from another.

11. The device of claim 1 further including a suture severing means at said distal end of said cartridge.

12. A reloadable device for deploying fasteners comprising:

a. a handle and at least one actuator;

b. said handle connected to an elongated hollow housing having distal and proximal ends, and a needle within said hollow housing;

c. a first cartridge containing at least one fastener releasably connectable to said handle;

d. said fastener, at least partially housed within said needle, said fastener comprising at least two anchors connected together by a non-resilient flexible suture which does not resist deformation under compressible loads; and

e. a means for facilitating removal of said first cartridge from said handle and replacing it with a second cartridge.

13. The device of claim 12 wherein said needle is off set from a center of said housing.

14. The device of claim 13 wherein said needle has a slot extending from a distal end at least partially back towards a proximal end of said needle.

15. The device of claim 13 wherein said needle has a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal axis which is non-circular.