Patent ID: 6234327
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method for holding suture packets so that the contents of the suture packets are available for the purpose of loading a suture onto a needle driver using only one hand, comprising the steps of:opening at least one suture packet in a sterile environment;obtaining a rack havinga supporting base,a plurality of spaced openings drilled into the supporting base, anda plurality of spring loops, each spring loop comprised of a wire spirally wound into a multiplicity of coils spaced to form insertion slots between adjacent coils adapted to receive and hold suture packets with ends of said wire extending away from said coils and inserted into a pair of openings of the plurality of spaced openings, said wires each forming a said spring loop; andplacing said opened suture packets into selected insertion slots of selected spring loops whereby the opened suture packets are held by the rack with contents of the opened suture packet available to be removed by one hand from the opened suture packets.