Patent ID: 9078651
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: A61B,D04G

Abstract:
1. A method of closing a tissue wound, comprising: delivering a wound closure device to a surgical site, the wound closure device housing: a non-tubular flexible fixation member comprising a body with a longitudinal extent and a width and two terminal ends at opposite ends of the longitudinal extent, the body defining a plurality of openings through the body, each of the plurality of openings formed through the width of the body; and a suture comprising two free terminal ends, the suture being interwoven through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the flexible fixation member such that multiple portions of the flexible fixation member are slidably coupled to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site, and such that each terminal end of the flexible fixation member terminates proximate a different one of the two free terminal ends of the suture, and such that the entirety of the suture is slidable with respect to the flexible fixation member, each of the free terminal ends of the suture being dimensioned for passage through each of the plurality of openings in the body of the flexible fixation member; the plurality of openings further including first and second openings, the first opening being the most near of the plurality of openings to a first of the two terminal ends of the flexible fixation member along the longitudinal extent, the second opening being the most near of the plurality of openings to a second of the two terminal ends of the flexible fixation member along the longitudinal extent, wherein a first of the two free terminal ends of the suture is interwoven through the first opening and a second of the two free terminal ends of the suture is interwoven through the second opening; removing the flexible fixation member from the wound closure device at the surgical site; and pulling on the terminal ends of the suture to form the cluster from the multiple portions of the flexible fixation member at the surgical site.