Patent ID: 8728100
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A suturing assembly configured to place suture in tissue, the suturing assembly comprising: a handle comprising a brace and an actuator attached to the handle, the actuator having a neutral position that is distal the brace; a shaft coupled to the handle and defining a longitudinal axis of the assembly; and a head coupled to the shaft, the head comprising a proximal portion housing a needle movable through a needle exit port of the head and a distal end spaced apart from the proximal portion by a throat, the needle connected with the actuator by a rod that extends through the shaft, the distal end of the head radially offset from the longitudinal axis and defining a cavity; wherein, as the actuator is displaced from the neutral position to the brace, the needle moves both in a first direction out of the needle exit port into the cavity formed in the distal end of the head and in a second direction out of the cavity formed in the distal end of the head and into the needle exit port.