Suture retention devices and associated products and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8945181-B2
Application number	US-201313791998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2013
Priority date	Mar 10, 2012
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

A suture retention device includes a stack of suture engaging members which can be provided by coils or other segments of a spring. A suture engages with the stack so as to permit travel of the retention device along the suture in one direction more facilely than travel along the suture in the other direction. The retention device can include a housing that encloses the spring or other stack structure, and the suture can pass from a first hole in the housing, through the suture engaging members, and to a second hole in the housing. A suture anchor can be attached to the suture, and the resulting assembly can be combined with a needle designed to introduce the anchor and suture into patient tissue, e.g. in the conduct of a gastropexy procedure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A surgical tether retention device, comprising:
a housing having a first end and a second end, the first end defining a first end wall surface configured for receipt against an external patient surface and a first end wall opening;
a tether engaging stack structure retained by the housing, the stack structure including at least first and second adjacent stack members;
a surgical tether having a housed tether portion extending through the housing in a pat…

Assignees

• Cook Medical Technologies Llc

Inventors

• Taylor James
• Fisher Benjamin

Classifications

• A61B17/0218

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B2017/0417

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B2017/0464

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B2017/0448

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• Y10T24/3998

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic