METHOD FOR MECHANICALLY APPLYING AN OCCLUSION CLIP TO AN ANATOMICAL TUBULAR STRUCTURE

• US 3,856,016 A
• Filed: 11/03/1972
• Issued: 12/24/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cooper Medical Devices Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hugh J. Davis
• Inventors: Davis, Hugh J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pace, Channing L.
• Application Number:
  US05/303,314
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 72/409,410 24/23W,3.5W 128/1R,2R,6,7,8,9,33R,321,322,325,330,346,6 251/9,10
• US Class Current: 128/831
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/303 for the vagina, i.e. vaginoscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/122 Clamps or clips , e.g. for the umbilical cord for the vas deferens A61F6/206
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/32 Surgical cutting instruments A61B18/042 takes precedence; suture cutters A61B17/0467; instruments for ligaturing or cutting A61B17/128; instruments for rupturing the amniotic membrane A61B17/4208; specially adapted knives for eye surgery A61F9/0133
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 6/204 Clamp applying devices
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 3/06 with compression ignition compression ignition engines using air or gas for blowing fuel into compressed air in cylinder F02B13/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1467 Swedged sheet metal band connection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/152 Swedged bag tie

Abstract

An occlusion clip which includes two laterally spaced clip portions interconnected at both ends by connecting portions and provided with indexing means in one connecting portion, and an instrument for applying the occlusion clip which includes two jaws movable relative to one another adjacent one end of a tubular structure in such a manner as to close the occlusion clip in a predetermined manner, one of the jaws, particularly the movable jaw being provided with a complementary indexing means and the tubular structure accommodating, if necessary, an optical viewing device as well as a means for emitting a beam of light within the area of the jaws.

Claims

1. A method for mechanically applying an occlusion clip to an anatomical tubular structure which comprises the steps of securely mounting an occlusion clip onto a tubular instrument having clip-receiving jaws located near one end thereof and disposed in an open clip-receiving position, inserting said end of the tubular instrument having the jaws with the clip mounted thereon through an opening in an anatomical body and while viewing through an optical viewing means disposed near the other end of said tubular instrument and provided with illumination for illuminating the area of the jaws and the areas distally thereof, positioning the open jaws and the clip mounted thereon in a proper position over the anatomical tubular structure and thereafter closing the clip to produce an occlusion in said anatomical structure.

2. The method of claim 1, werein viewing of the tubular structure is made through the tubular instrument and through the open jaws thereof.

3. A method according to claim 2, including the step of viewing through two spatially separated occlusion clip portions securely held in position on the jaws by complementary indexing means.

4. A method according to claim 3, including the step of applying the occlusion clip to a Fallopian tube through an opening made in the umbilicus.

5. A method according to claim 2, including the step of applying the occlusion clip to a Fallopian tube through an opening made in the umbilicus.