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Multiple clip deployment magazine

  • US 9,763,669 B2
  • Filed: 04/30/2015
  • Issued: 09/19/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for deploying multiple hemostatic clips, comprising:

  • positioning a distal end of a magazine containing a clip chain over selected target tissue;

    actuating a control link of the magazine in a distal stroke to open and distally translate a distal-most clip of the clip chain;

    orienting the open distal-most clip in a desired orientation to grasp the target tissue;

    actuating the control link in a proximal stroke to close and lock the distal-most clip over the target tissue;

    further actuating the control link in the proximal stroke to move a next clip immediately proximal to the distal-most clip into an expanded portion of the magazine sized to allow the next clip to open to a degree sufficient to release the distal-most clip from the clip chain regardless of a circumferential orientation of the next clip; and

    releasing the distal-most clip by partially opening the next clip.

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