Tack device with shield

• US 7,226,408 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2002
• Issued: 06/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ams Research Corporation (Endo International PLC)
• Inventors: Beyar, Mordechay, Globerman, Oren, Harai, Boaz
• Primary Examiner(s): HAYES, MICHAEL J
• Application Number:
  US10/322,891
• Publication Number:
  US 20030135225A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,630 Days
• Field of Search: 606/1, 606/104, 606/151, 600/37
• US Class Current: 600/37
• 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 17/0642 for bones, e.g. for osteosynthesis or connecting tendon to bone
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00805 Treatment of female stress urinary incontinence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00867 shape memory effect
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0409 Instruments for applying suture anchors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0412 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from suture anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0427 having anchoring barbs or pins extending outwardly from the anchor body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0437 the barbs being resilient or spring-like
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/044 with a threaded shaft, e.g. screws
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0647 having one single leg, e.g. tacks
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings

Abstract

A slotted shield for a surgical tack, including a body adapted to engage a tack head. The shield has at least one slot having a width, defined by the body. Optionally, the shield is mounted on a tack head on which said shield is mounted.

Claims

1. A sling mounting implement adapted for mounting a sling on a tack, comprising:

a body having a longitudinal axis and proximal and distal ends;

an aperture defined by said body formed at said distal end said aperture receiving a tip of said tack;

a radially projecting finger guard extending circumferentially about said longituinal axis, said radially projecting finger guard having structure adapted to protect fingers of a user; and

a handle located along the longitudinal axis of said body at said proximal end.

2. An implement according to claim 1, wherein said aperture is sized so that the tip of said tack can be retracted after the tip penetrates a sling.

3. An implement according to claim 1, wherein said aperture is sized so that the tip of said tack cannot be removed from said aperture, without damaging the implement.

4. An implement according to claim 1 further comprising a split line located along the longitudinal axis of said body.

5. The implement of claim 4 further comprising a sling received by said slot.

6. The implement of claim 4 wherein said sting mounting iniplement, said tack and said sling are packaged in kit.

7. The implement of claim 1 wherein the distal end of said body includes a tacky substance.

8. The implement of claim 1 further comprising a slot in said body adjacent to said aperture, said slot sized for holding a sling while it is being transfixed on said tack.