Patent ID: 6074404
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method for suturing a wound in a body lumen, comprising the steps of:providing a suturing assembly having an elongated guide body with a central axis and a distal end and formed with at least one pair of axially parallel, laterally opposed first bores and second bores extending from the distal end through at least a portion of the body, a tip attached to the distal end of the body and formed at least in part with a semi-spherical configuration and having a tip surface, and a pair of resilient, elastically precurved needles removably positioned in each respective first bores and each having a proximal end with suture material secured thereto;positioning the tip within the wound with the lumen tissue located directly underneath the bores;advancing the needles out of the respective first bores, piercing the lumen tissue, curving around the tip surface, and repiercing the lumen tissue and entering the respective second bores;grasping the needles as each advances into the respective second bores;retracting the needles into the second bores;pulling the sutures through the lumen tissue; andtying the sutures to seal the wound.