Patent ID: 9554782
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,A61L

Claim:
1. A method for treating a wound or defect at a target site using a minimally invasive surgical procedure comprising: providing a surgical access device having a plurality of reactive members of a specific binding pair releasably contained on an exterior surface of the access device, the reactive members having affinity for binding a cellular component of tissue cells located at the target site; contacting the exterior surface of the access device with the tissue cells, wherein upon contact of the reactive members on the surface of the access device with the tissue cells, the reactive members are released from the exterior surface of the access device and bind to the tissue cells; providing a tissue repair member having secured thereto a plurality of complementary reactive members of the specific binding pair; and applying the tissue repair member to the tissue cells, wherein upon contact of the complementary reactive members on the surface of the tissue repair member with the reactive members on the tissue cells, covalent bonds are formed between the reactive members and the complementary reactive members, thus bonding the tissue repair member to the target site.